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
- 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.
- A glossary of terms used during the lecture.
For extra practice, see Python's official tutorial.