Mia hesitated only a second before hitting . The file began to fill her hard drive, and with it, a quiet excitement settled over her. 2. The First Steps (February – March) The first module opened with a friendly instructor who greeted the class in both English and a quick “Bonjour!”—a nod to the French title that had drawn Mia in. The lesson was titled “Hello, World!” and it felt like a rite of passage. Mia wrote her first line of Python, watched the console print the greeting, and felt a tiny surge of triumph.
| Week | Milestone | What Mia Built | |------|-----------|----------------| | 1 | – variables, loops, conditionals | A simple number‑guessing game | | 2 | Data Structures – lists, dictionaries, sets | A contact manager that saved friends’ info | | 3 | Functions & Modules | A reusable math library | | 4 | File I/O | A script that reads a CSV of expenses and outputs a summary | | 5 | Error Handling & Testing | Unit tests for the expense script | | 6 | Web Scraping | A bot that pulls the latest tech headlines | | 7 | APIs & JSON | A weather app that calls an open API | | 8 | Web Development (Flask) | A tiny blog platform with user login | | 9 | Databases (SQLite & PostgreSQL) | Persistent storage for the blog | |10 | Deployment – Docker, Heroku, CI/CD | Deploying the blog live for the world to see | Mia hesitated only a second before hitting
From there, the curriculum was a staircase: The First Steps (February – March) The first