>usually 3 days for beginner programmers, 1 day for programmers with knowledge in other languages</p>
<ul>
<li>overview of Python and comparison to other programming languages</li>
<li>installation</li>
<li>working with the interactive Python console</li>
<li>variables and basic data types</li>
<li>composite types: dict, list, tuple</li>
<li>help and documentation</li>
<li>builtins and the standard library</li>
<li>control structures
<ul>
<li>if / else</li>
<li>loops (while, for)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>functi