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Lecture 3 covers programming in Python, focusing on language fundamentals and practical examples. Key topics include expressions, assignment statements, function calls, and the use of tables as a standard data structure. The session emphasizes hands-on practice and understanding syntax and function arguments.

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03-programming-in-python

Lecture 3 covers programming in Python, focusing on language fundamentals and practical examples. Key topics include expressions, assignment statements, function calls, and the use of tables as a standard data structure. The session emphasizes hands-on practice and understanding syntax and function arguments.

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Lecture 3

Programming in Python
Agenda
●Announcements
●New material
○ A crash course in Python
○ A first look at tables
Announcements
● Course website announcements
● Save your notebook before generating the
zip file and/or PDF for submission!
My PollEv website!
● https://pollev.com/jeremysanchez
New material
Python is used for data science and
more!
● Master the language fundamentals!
● Learn through practice:
● see some examples
● try out variants of these yourself
● write new code that solves new
problems
Dem
First things first when it comes to
Python
●Expressions -> Values
●Syntax (it’s important!)
●Other behaviors, such
as…
○division!
Use an assignment statement to create a
name
● The name belongs to the value of the
expression to the right of the = symbol

hours_per_wk = 24 * 7

Name Any expression


Make use of functions with call
expressions

Function Argumen
name t

f (27)
"Call f on 27."
Functions can have multiple
arguments!
What
functio Second
First argument
n to argument
call

max ( 15 , 27 )
Dem
Arguments come in two types
●named:
○round(number = 12.34)

●unnamed:
○round(12.34)
Argument names are not
arbitrary!
● To see the names of arguments a function f
takes:
○ run f? in a notebook cell
■ documentation of the function
f.
A table is our standard data
structure
● Each row represents one individual
● Each column contains data on one
variable Label
Name Code Area (m2)

California CA 163696

Nevada NV 110567

Row
Column

Dem
Constructing a new table…
1.with just the specified columns?
○ t.select(label)
2.in which the specified columns are
omitted?
○ t.drop(label)
3.with rows sorted by the specified
column?
○ t.sort(label)
4.with just the rows that match a
Goodbye! 👋
End of lecture

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