This tutorial doesn't assume any prior knowledge in python, or any other background in programming languages.

The whole tutorial is written in jupyter notebooks, which I feel is the best platform for this sort of thing. If you want to run them locally:

• Download and install python (preferably python 3). Add python to your environmental variables.
• Download pip.
• Install it through python get-pip.py.
• Install jupyter through pip: pip install jupyter.

If the notebooks don't render properly through github you can always view them through here.