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

For extra practice, see Python's official tutorial.