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Chapter 1 - Python Recap & Intro to Django

The document provides an overview of Python programming, covering syntax, data structures like lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries, as well as control flow using conditionals and loops. It also includes instructions for installing Django, creating a project, and running a development server. Additionally, it lists several exercises to practice Python skills.

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Chapter 1 - Python Recap & Intro to Django

The document provides an overview of Python programming, covering syntax, data structures like lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries, as well as control flow using conditionals and loops. It also includes instructions for installing Django, creating a project, and running a development server. Additionally, it lists several exercises to practice Python skills.

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CHAPTER 1:

Python Review
Python Syntax
● Python is a dynamically-typed language i.e. a variable does not need to be
declared with a type and one variable can take on different data types.

● Python code is written and executed line by line. We typically separate


different instructions with lines but semicolons are also valid.

● It uses indentation instead of curly brackets for code blocks.

● Python promotes code readability and ease of understanding


Lists and tuples
● List
○ An ordered, mutable collection of elements (the list’s structure can be
modified after it has been created)
○ Has methods for adding and removing elements (append, extend, pop,
etc.)

● Tuples
○ An immutable ordered collection of elements (cannot be modified after
creation, to put it simply)
Sets and dictionaries
● Sets
○ An unordered collection of unique elements
○ Can be created from other iterables like lists, strings and tuples

● Dictionaries
○ Store key-value pairs. The key can only be hashable data types like
numbers, strings or tuples.
○ The values can be any Python object
Conditionals
● Conditional statements control the flow of execution
Loops
● Python offers for loops and while loops. You can also add an else statement to
the end of a loop.
● Both loops support break and continue.
For loop While loop
Functions
● Functions allow code
reusability
● Python functions can accept 0
or more arguments and even
permit the use of placeholders
(*args, **kwargs)
● Functions can also return
multiple values
Django
Installation
and Setup
Django Installation
● Before getting started, please create a new folder on your computer for this
course titled Advanced_OOP. Please take note of where this folder is located.

● Now open a terminal and type the pip command to install django: pip install
django or python -m pip install django

● Once installation has successfully completed, check the version: django-admin


--version

● If the above check doesn’t work, try


○ running python -m django-admin --version instead
○ opening a python shell and importing django
Creating a Django project
● After verifying that Django has been successfully installed, create a new folder
in the Advanced_OOP folder called Exercises (please respect the casing)

● Open a terminal in the Exercises folder created above. We are going to create
our first django project here

● On the terminal, type django-admin startproject example

● Navigate into the example project: cd example

● Run the development server: python manage.py runserver

● Navigate to http://localhost:8000 on your browser.


Exercises
● Create a list of numbers from 1 to 10 and print only even numbers.

● Write a function that takes a name as input and returns "Hello, !".

● Write a program that asks for a user's age and prints if they are a minor or an
adult.

● Write a while loop that prints numbers from 5 to 0.

● Use the `math` module to compute the square root of a number entered by
the user.

● Use a regular expression to extract all email addresses from a given text.

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