Getting Started With Python IDLE

Watch Now This tutorial has a related video course created by the Real Python team. Watch it together with the written tutorial to deepen your understanding: Starting With Python IDLE Python IDLE is the default integrated development environment (IDE) that comes bundled with every Python installation, helping you to start coding right out of the box. In this tutorial, you’ll explore how to interact with Python directly in IDLE, edit and execute Python files, and even customize the environment to […]

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Research Focus: Week of April 21, 2025

In this issue: Catch a preview of our presentations and papers at CHI 2025 and ICLR 2025. We also introduce new research on causal reasoning and LLMs; enhancing LLM jailbreak capabilities to bolster safety and robustness; understanding how people using AI compared to AI-alone, and Distill-MOS, a compact and efficient model that delivers state-of-the-art speech quality assessment. You’ll also find a replay of a podcast discussion on rural healthcare innovation with Senior Vice President of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein. CONFERENCE

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MySQL Databases and Python

MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems (DBMSs) on the market today. It ranked second only to the Oracle DBMS in this year’s DB-Engines Ranking. As most software applications need to interact with data in some form, programming languages like Python provide tools for storing and accessing these data sources. Using the techniques discussed in this video course, you’ll be able to efficiently integrate a MySQL database with a Python application. You’ll develop a small MySQL database […]

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Quiz: Shallow vs Deep Copying of Python Objects

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 12 QuestionsBy Bartosz Zaczyński Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Shallow vs Deep Copying of Python Objects. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit the concepts of shallow and deep copying, and how they affect mutable objects in Python. The quiz contains 12 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of the quiz, you’ll receive a total score. The maximum score is 100%. […]

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Shallow vs Deep Copying of Python Objects

Python’s assignment statements don’t copy objects as they do in some other programming languages. Instead, they create bindings between your variable names and objects. For immutable objects, this distinction usually doesn’t matter. However, when you work with mutable objects or containers of mutable items, you may need to create explicit copies or “clones” of these objects. Explore the nuances of copying objects in Python and learn how to apply these techniques to manage mutable data structures effectively. Getting the Big […]

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Empowering patients and healthcare consumers in the age of generative AI

[THEME MUSIC FADES] The passage I read at the top there is from Chapter 5, “The AI-Augmented Patient,” which Carey wrote.   People have forever turned to the internet and sites like WebMD, Healthline, and so on to find health information and advice. So it wouldn’t be too surprising to witness a significant portion of people refocus those efforts around tools and apps powered by generative AI. Indeed, when we look at our search and advertising businesses here at Microsoft, we […]

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Quiz: How to Exit Loops Early With the Python Break Keyword

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 5 QuestionsBy Philipp Acsany Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Python break statement. This keyword allows you to exit a loop prematurely, transferring control to the code that follows the loop. The quiz contains 5 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of the quiz, you’ll receive a total score. The maximum score is 100%. Good luck! Related Resources

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How to Exit Loops Early With the Python Break Keyword

In Python, the break statement lets you exit a loop prematurely, transferring control to the code that follows the loop. This tutorial guides you through using break in both for and while loops. You’ll also briefly explore the continue keyword, which complements break by skipping the current loop iteration. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: A break in Python is a keyword that lets you exit a loop immediately, stopping further iterations. Using break outside of loops […]

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Creating a Python Dice Roll Application

In this video course, you’ll learn how to create a Python dice roll simulator. The course guides you through building a text-based user interface (TUI) application that simulates rolling dice using Python’s random module. You’ll learn to gather and validate user input, use random.randint() for dice rolling, and display results with ASCII art. By the end of this video course, you’ll understand that: To simulate dice-rolling events, you can use random.randint() . To get the user’s input, you use the […]

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