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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.
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+== Resources ==
+* [[Boston Python Workshop 7/Data types| Python data types cheat sheet]].
+* [[Boston Python Workshop 7/Loops| Python loops cheat sheet]].
+* [https://raw.github.com/jvns/mtlpytutorial/master/capitals.py capitals.py] -- the state capitals example.
+* [http://codingbat.com/home/bostonpythonworkshop@gmail.com/SaturdayMorning Saturday morning CodingBat review].
+* [http://codingbat.com/home/bostonpythonworkshop@gmail.com/Saturday Saturday lecture CodingBat practice].
+For extra practice, see Python's [http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html official tutorial].
+[[Boston Python Workshop 7|&laquo; Back to the Workshop home page]]
+== Lecture outline ==
+# review Friday material
+#* math
+#* <tt>type()</tt>
+#* variables
+#* strings
+#* booleans
+#* <tt>if</tt>/<tt>elif</tt>/<tt>else</tt>
+#* functions
+# lists
+#* purpose
+#* initialization
+#* <tt>len()</tt> review
+#* accessing elements
+#* adding elements
+#* changing elements
+#* slicing lists
+#* strings are like lists
+# loops and more flow control
+#* <tt>for</tt> loops
+#* <tt>if</tt> statements inside <tt>for</tt> loops
+#* nested <tt>for</tt> loops
+#* <tt>range()</tt>
+#* <tt>while</tt> loops
+#* infinite loops
+#* <tt>if</tt> statements inside <tt>while</tt> loops
+#* <tt>break</tt>
+#* <tt>raw_input()</tt>
+# dictionaries
+#* purpose
+#* initialization
+#* accessing elements
+#* adding elements
+#* changing elements
+#* <tt>keys()</tt> and <tt>values()</tt>
+# modules
+#* purpose
+#* builtins
+#* imports
+#* <tt>import random</tt>
+#* <tt>random.randint</tt>
+#* <tt>random.choice</tt>
+#* walk through state_capitals.py
+Where capitals.py from https://raw.github.com/jvns/mtlpytutorial/master/capitals.py is the grand finale and synthesis of lecture material.
+[[Boston Python Workshop 7|&laquo; Back to the Workshop home page]]