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

• summary sheet for Python data types.
• hands-on exercises to practice Python.
• A Python script explaining Python classes.

For extra practice, see Python's official tutorial.