Boston Python Workshop 3/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) modules

Resources

 * cheat sheet for Python data types.
 * A Python script explaining Python classes.

For extra practice, see Python's official tutorial.

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