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HCS Bootcamp: Intro to Python

By Kenny Yu

Prerequisites

In order to start this bootcamp, you must:

• Setup your environment, using directions from here. In particular, you must have a UNIX environment (e.g. Mac OS X, Ubuntu, CS50 Appliance, NOT Windows), and you must have git installed
• Finish the git bootcamp here.

Introduction

In this bootcamp, we'll:

• Teach you Python basics
• Have you work on some Python exercises

See the associated slides

Agenda

1. What is Python
2. Exercise: Hello World
3. Control flow
4. Tuples, Strings, Lists, Sets, Dictionaries
5. Exercise: Spell Checker
6. Exercise: Programming!