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Welcome to the Saturday lecture section of the Boston Python Workshop! For about 2 hours, we'll work through an introduction to the Python programming language via both a lecture and hand-on exercises.
 
== Lecture outline ==
 
# review Friday material
# lists
# loops and more flow control: for, while, break
# dictionaries
# modules
 
== Resources ==
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For extra practice, see Python's [http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html official tutorial].
 
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== Lecture outline ==
 
# review Friday material
#* math
#* type()
#* variables
#* strings
#* booleans
#* if/elif/else
#* functions
# lists
#* purpose
#* initialization
#* len() review
#* accessing elements
#* adding elements
#* changing elements
#* slicing lists
#* strings are like lists
# loops and more flow control: for, while, break
#* for loops
#* if statements inside for loops
#* for loops inside for loops
#* range()
#* while loops
#* infinite loops
#* if statements inside while loops
#* break
#* raw_input
# dictionaries
#* purpose
#* initialization
#* accessing elements
#* adding elements
#* changing elements
#* keys() and values()
# modules
#* purpose
#* builtins
#* imports
#* <tt>import random</tt>
#* <tt>random.randint</tt>
#* <tt>random.choice</tt>
#* walk through state_capitals.py
 
Where state_capitals.py from http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop6/state_capitals.py is the grand finale and synthesis of lecture material.
 
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