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L1cs: Basic Programming Building Blocks: Where (Do I Go) ?

The document provides an overview of a Python course including lecturers, tutorial and workshop times, topics to be covered in the first four weeks such as basic programming building blocks, the print function, variable and data types, strings, and functions. It also mentions examinable material and Grok worksheets to complete.

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L1cs: Basic Programming Building Blocks: Where (Do I Go) ?

The document provides an overview of a Python course including lecturers, tutorial and workshop times, topics to be covered in the first four weeks such as basic programming building blocks, the print function, variable and data types, strings, and functions. It also mentions examinable material and Grok worksheets to complete.

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 Lecturers: Chris Leckie

 Tutor: Cameron Chandler


 Version 3.6 Python

Where (do I go)?

 There are three lecturers per week (Mon. Wed. Fri)


 3.15  2.15  1.00
 W01 is tutorial, must attend one each week
 W02 is workshop, optional

L1cs: Basic programming building blocks


- Statements = single command
- Sequence = linear sequence of statements
- Control = if
- Loops = repeat sequences
- Functions = blocks of code that can be run with different inputs
- Recursion = blocks of code that call themselves with different inputs

L2as: Fundamental concept of “print” function


L2b: Types, Variables, and Strings
Type
There are two number types,
int (integer)
float (real number)
Use the function type to determine the type of an object.
Use the function int( ) and float( ) to convert.
Literal
Literals are value that are fixed. They have invariant semantics. a value that is typed directly into
the program
Variables
Arbitrary name to store value, “=” is assignment, an action that takes value and store it
Variable names must start with a character or underscore and consist of only alphanumeric
characters and underscores
Overloading
+ and * mean different things for int and float
snake_case = 1
camelCase = 1
Sequence
A sequence is like a numbered list of objects. strings, lists, tuples
Naming variables

Type
Mutable/Immutable

Operators

Formating newline

Formating f-string
not > and > or
Project 1
Question 1
Question 2

Question 3
Question 4
MST
Examinable material is everything up to and including Week 4 Lecture 2.
Grok worksheets 0-9

 Python basics and types


 Variables and strings
 String manipulation and conditionals
 Functions, methods, tuples
 Lists and sequences
 Iteration
o For: loop variable is variable which changes each time the code in a for loop is
repeated, taking the value of successive items in the sequence being looped
through.
o While: initialization, condition, execution. Identify 3 things, what loop variable is
initialized to, how the loop variable is incremented during each iteration, when
the loop terminates
 Nested loops

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