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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 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.

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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 printing and Python as a calculator, from Friday evening
-# Useful data types: lists, dictionaries, and tuples
+# 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
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 == Resources ==
-* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/ Download or browse] the workshop exercises.
 * [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/data_types.txt summary sheet] for Python data types.
 * [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop/ hands-on exercises] to practice Python.