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=== Part 1 === |
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* Break! |
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Revision as of 04:30, 27 September 2014
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.
Resources
- Python data types cheat sheet
- Python loops cheat sheet
- state_capitals.py -- the state capitals example.
Lecture outline
Part 1
- review Friday material
- math
- type()
- variables
- strings
- booleans
- if/elif/else
- functions
- lists
- purpose
- initialization
- len() review
- accessing elements
- adding elements
- changing elements
- slicing lists
- strings are like lists
- loops and more flow control
- for loops
- if statements inside for loops
- nested for loops
- range()
- while loops
- infinite loops
- if statements inside while loops
- break
- raw_input()
- Break!
You will need the following code:
grades = [86, 71, 91, 62, 85, 86, 72, 58, 65, 77, 54, 53, 56, 91, 93, 58, 80, 74, 75, 64]
Part 2
- dictionaries
- purpose
- initialization
- accessing elements
- adding elements
- changing elements
- keys() and values()
- modules
- purpose
- builtins
- imports
- import random
- random.randint
- random.choice
- walk through state_capitals.py
Where state_capitals.py from http://mako.cc/teaching/2014/cdsw/state_capitals.py is the grand finale and synthesis of lecture material.