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🐍 Python workshop for first-time Python programmers.

Agenda

• Running programs
  • Installation
  • Hello world
  • Normal mode (e.g. python3 hello.py)
  • Hashbang e.g. #!/usr/bin/env python3 (Linux/Mac only)
  • Interactive mode e.g. command-line REPL interpreter
• Basic syntax
  • Indentation
  • Comments
  • Variables
  • Printing
• Strings and numbers
  • Single line strings
  • Multi-line strings
  • Substrings e.g. s[0:5]
  • Conversion to string e.g. str(5)
  • Integer
  • Float
  • Conversion to integer e.g. int("5")
  • Conversion to float e.g. float("5.5")
• Control structures
  • If
  • Else
  • Elif
  • While
  • Ternary operator
• Lists
  • Initialize lists
  • Append to lists
  • Access list items
  • Remove from lists
  • Iterate over lists
• Dictionaries
  • Initialize dictionaries
  • Access dictionary items
  • Remove from dictionaries
  • Iterate over dictionaries
• Functions
  • Define functions
  • Arguments
  • Return values
• Classes
  • Define classes
  • Constructor
  • Methods
  • Inheritance/composition/polymorphism
• Files
  • Open files
  • Read files
  • Write files
  • Close files

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8th weekly workshop (August 4th, 2023) of Hot Open Source Software Summer hackathon series hosted by ACM CSUF Student Chapter's Open Source Software team.