Instructor: Michelle Wang

Outline

This lecture is designed to get students up and running with Python. It is expected that Python 3 (preferably 3.8 or later) is installed, and that the students have some basic previous experience in a scripting language.

It will guide students through the fundamental syntax, concepts, and data structures required to code in Python 3.

Topics include:

running your code,
commenting,
variables,
arithmetic,
logic,
strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries,
functions,
libraries,
if statements,
loops,
exceptions,
and classes.

Questions you will be able to answer after taking this module

How does the use of a break statement alter the flow of a loop in Python?
What happens if you attempt to append new elements to a Tuple?
Without running the code on your machine, what is the printed output when the following code is run?
```
my_dictionary = {"a" : 1, "b" : {"c" : {"d" : [4,5,6,4]}}, "c" : [1,2,3]}
x = my_dictionary["b"]["c"]["d"].append(my_dictionary["c"][-3])
print(my_dictionary.values())
```
1. [1, {'c': {'d': [4, 5, 6, 4]}}, [1, 2, 3]]
2. [1, {'c': {'d': [4, 5, 6, 4, 1]}}, [1, 2, 3]]
3. [1, [4,5,6,4,1], [1,2,3]]
4. [1, [4,5,6,4], [1,2,3]]

Without running the code on your machine, which string is returned by my_function when called with the specified parameters?

def my_function(x, y, z):
    result = ""
    if len(z) <= 6 and len(z) > 2:
        result = z[-2] + y
    else:
        result = x + y
    return x + x + result

my_function("111", "abc", "0100")