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* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/data_types.txt summary sheet] for Python data types.
* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/data_types.txt summary sheet] for Python data types.
* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/SaturdayExercises hands-on exercises] to practice Python.
* [http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop2/SaturdayExercises hands-on exercises] to practice Python.
* A Python script explaining [[Boston Python Workshop 2/Python Classes | Python classes]].
* A Python script explaining [[Boston_Python_workshop_2/Python_classes | Python classes]].


For extra practice, see Python's [http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ official tutorial].
For extra practice, see Python's [http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ official tutorial].

Latest revision as of 20:24, 18 May 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

  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

For extra practice, see Python's official tutorial.