study_plan.txt

12-Week Study Plan (5 hours/week)

Week 1: Setup and REPL (5 hrs)
- Install Python 3.11, create venv, open VS Code with accessibility support.
- Practice REPL: print(), input(), basic expressions.

Week 2: Control flow (5 hrs)
- Practice if/elif/else, for and while loops. Do FizzBuzz and simple loop tasks.

Week 3: Functions & modules (5 hrs)
- Write and call functions, use return values, import simple modules.

Week 4: Lists & strings (5 hrs)
- Work with lists, indexing, slicing, string methods.

Week 5: Dictionaries & tuples (5 hrs)
- Use dicts for lookups and simple data stores. Build a minimal contact CLI.

Week 6: File I/O & CSV (5 hrs)
- Read/write text and CSV files; build a CSV summary script.

Week 7: JSON & error handling (5 hrs)
- Save and load JSON; add try/except handling; build a JSON-based to-do CLI.

Week 8: Virtualenv & pip (5 hrs)
- Create and activate venv; install requests and beautifulsoup4; scaffold a project.

Week 9: APIs (5 hrs)
- Use requests to fetch JSON from a public API and print readable summaries.

Week 10: Web scraping (5 hrs)
- Use requests and BeautifulSoup to parse accessible HTML content and save results.

Week 11: Testing & debugging (5 hrs)
- Add basic unit tests using unittest or pytest; learn to run and interpret test output.

Week 12: Final project (5 hrs)
- Build a small CLI or automation script combining the skills you learned. Add README and tests.