Boston Python Workshop/1/Saturday/Lecture material

On Saturday morning, we'll work through an introduction to the Python programming language. We'll cover the topics below interactively, by experimenting together at a Python prompt and reading and modifying example scripts that demonstrate these concepts. The afternoon projects will be another great way to practice.

1. Basic data types: numbers, strings, lists, dicts, and sets
2. Printing and comment characters
3. Flow control: if, for, while, break, continue
4. Functions
5. Error handling
6. I/O: raw_input, file I/O, sys.argv
7. Classes: classes, self, inheritance
8. Modules: importing modules, __name__ == "__main__"

• Download or browse the workshop exercises.
• summary sheet for Python data types.

For extra material, see Python's official tutorial.