Intro to Python for Tech Artists

Get more info on the course here:
http://bit.ly/2miHpkQ

This is a 3-week beginners workshop to get you started learning python basics.

We will use Maya as our sandbox or workbench to test and run python, however you will be learning python essentials you can use in any application that utilizes python as opposed to a maya-only approach. Maya is a great place to learn python in general and a good place to visualize the results of code.

Week 1: Getting Started
You will:
- Get all your applications installed and bookmark important websites.
- Learn the history of python and various flavors of python in Maya.
- Get a tour of the Maya script editor
- Setup Maya, Sublime
- print statements, strings, and variables
- The dir and help commands
- Importing modules
- The xform and getAttr commands
- Translate, rotate and scale maya objects with a script.
- Converting MEL to python with a nifty tool.


Week 2: Fundamentals Part I
Learn about:
- variables
- dictionaries
- lists
- indexing and sorting
- tuples
- for loops
- if-then statements
- operators
- help() and dir(),
- strings
- enumerate()
- range()
- immutable vs. mutable
You will script the building of a model

Week 3: Fundamentals Part II
You will learn:
- functions
- arguments
- docstrings
- variables
- *args and **kwargs
- PYTHONPATH