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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. |
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. |
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== Lecture outline == |
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# Flow control: if, for, while, break, continue |
# Flow control: if, for, while, break, continue |
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# Exceptions and debugging |
# Exceptions and debugging |
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== Resources == |
== Resources == |
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* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/ Download or browse] the workshop exercises. |
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* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/data_types.txt summary sheet] for Python data types. |
* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/data_types.txt summary sheet] for Python data types. |
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* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/ hands-on exercises] to practice Python. |
* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/ hands-on exercises] to practice Python. |
Revision as of 00:41, 24 April 2011
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 printing and Python as a calculator from Friday evening
- Other useful data types: lists, dictionaries, and tuples
- Flow control: if, for, while, break, continue
- Exceptions and debugging
- Functions
- Classes
- Modules
Resources
- summary sheet for Python data types.
- hands-on exercises to practice Python.
For extra practice, see Python's official tutorial.