Python

What is Python

• Scripting (and more)
• Dynamic (interpreted)
• Duck typing
• Readable
• Widely used

Stuff to know about Python

• Guido van Rossum
• Web site
• Monty Python
• Eric Idle

Users of Python

• Children
• Game developers
• Animators
• GUI developers
• Embedded system developers
• Fall 2010 CSCI 201 students
• Spring 2013 CSCI 331 students
• Minecraft hackers

A few serious tutorials

• Google’s Python Class
• The Python Tutorial
• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• MIT 6.01

Three days of Python

• Day 1 — Lab 14
  • Introduction to Python
  • Control flow
• Day 2 — Lab 15
  • Classes
• Day 3 — Lab 16
  • Modules and import
  • Lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries
    

        letterList = [chr(i) for i in range(ord('a'), ord('z')+1)]
        letterPair = [i + j for i in letterList for j in letterList]
        chr676Name = reduce((lambda s, t: s+ t), letterPair)
    

  • Tkinter
    • A simple GUI
    • A simple canvas