Boston Python workshop 2/Saturday lecture

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

 * 1) review printing and Python as a calculator from Friday evening
 * 2) booleans and flow control: truthiness, if, equality and comparing, in
 * 3) lists
 * 4) loops and more flow control: for, while, break, continue
 * 5) dictionaries
 * 6) functions
 * 7) classes
 * 8) modules

Resources

 * summary sheet for Python data types.
 * hands-on exercises to practice Python.
 * A Python script explaining Python classes.

For extra practice, see Python's official tutorial.