Intro Python: Fundamentals
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Section 1: Introduction

1. Introduction
2. Variable assignment
3. User input
4. Comments
5. Conditionals
6. Complex conditions
7. Exercise #1 (weather reaction)
8. Solution #1 (weather reaction)
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Section 2: Basic data types

9. None
10. True, False, and boolean context
11. Integers
12. Max int?
13. Converting to ints
14. Exercise #2 (number guessing game)
15. Solution #2 (number guessing game)
16. Hex, oct, and bin
17. Floats
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Section 3: Strings

Syllabus: strings
18. Intro to strings
19. Backslashes
20. Raw strings
21. Slices
22. Searching with "in"
23. Exercise #3 (Pig Latin)
24.Solution #3 (Pig Latin)
25. String methods
26. Triple-quoted strings
27. Bytes and characters
28. str.format and f-strings
29. print function options
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Section 4: Loops

Syllabus: loops
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30. for loops
31. indexes and enumerate
32. range
33. Exercise #4 (loop exercises)
34. Solution #4 (loop exercises)
35. break and continue
36. else on loops
37. while loops
Section 5: Lists

Syllabus: lists and tuples
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38. lists
39. Assignment and lists
40. append
41. Exercise #5 (sum and mean of numbers)
42. Solution #5 (sum and mean of numbers)
43. extend and plus equal
44. advanced inserting into lists
45. removing from a list
46. stacks and queues
47. iterating over lists
48. range
49. str.split
50. str.join
51. Exercise #6 (Pig Latin sentence)
52. Solution #6 (Pig Latin sentence)
53. Adding to strings, adding to lists
54. sorting
Section 6: Tuples

55. Intro to tuples
56. Tuples are immutable
57 Tuple creation trickiness
58 Unpacking
59 Convering to-from tuples
60 Sorting tuples
61 Exercise 7 -- people
62 Solution 7 -- people
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Section 7: Dictionaries

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63 Intro to dicts
64 Exercise 8 -- restaurant
65 Solution 8 -- restaurant
66 get and setdefault
67 iterating over a dict
68 Exercise 9 -- Rainfall
69 Solution 9 -- Rainfall
70 How do dicts work?
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Section 8: Sets

71 Intro to sets
72 Lists vs. sets
73 Adding to and removing from sets
74 Exercise 10 -- dollar store
75 Solution 10 -- dollar store
76 Set operations
77 Exercise 11 -- spelling bee
78 Solution 11 -- spelling bee
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Conclusion

79 Conclusion.mov
PDFs of slides

01 Introduction.pdf
02 Simple data types (none, boolean, int, string).pdf
03 Lists, tuples, sequences.pdf
04 Dictionaries and sets.pdf

Section 7: Dictionaries

Dictionaries are, without a doubt, the most important data structure in Python. In this section, you'll learn how to create and manipulate dictionaries, as well as what makes them so special.

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