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Python crash course

CTE115 National Diploma

Introduction
• What is a programming Language
• Compiler/Interpreter (Instalation)
• Why do multiple programing language exist
• How does python work (DISSCUSSION)
Setting up Environment
• Download python Interpreter from the website
www.python.org
• Install the setup file (select the default)
• Test your installation by running the “python” key word in your
command prompt
Using the command Line terminal (CLI)
• Some terminal commands are
• LS
• PWD
• CD , cd .. , cd / , cd ~(user directory)
• Clear
• open .
• Echo > name_of_file
• del (to remove file) , deltree(to remove a folder)
•
Setting up code editor
• Why do we need to set up a code environment/editor (DISSCUSSION)
• Autocompletion
• Debugging
• Code formatting
• Unit test
• Extensions

• Downlaod Visual Studio Code or your preferred text editor

Learning a Language
• Four Things to master in Learning a programming Language
1. The Terms (syntax)
2. Data Type
3. Actions (functions)
4. Best Practice (Data structure)
Python Data Types
Same as C++ we have data types in all programming python datatypes
include
• Int
• Float
• Bool
• Str
• List
• Tuple
• Set
• Dict

These are referred to as fundamental/primitive data types

Variables
• All languages have variable
• Variable store information that can be used in our program
• Assigning a value to a variable is referred to as binding

Ex:
1. Create variable in both python and C++ programming language
respectively
2. In Two paragraphs, discuss on variables
Rules in naming variable
All though we can name a variable with any name of our choice, it is
preferable to give your variable a meaningful name. below are rules to
follow in naming a variable in python
1. Snake_case
2. Start with lowercase or underscore
3. Letters, numbers, underscore
4. Case sensitive
5. Don’t overwrite keywords
String
• A string is a sequence of characters, it is denoted either with a single or
double quote in most programming language. Example of a string
“we are learning data structure”

• Three single quote in python is used for multiline string

‘’’
This is a
Multi line
String

‘’’’
• The concept of Concatenation (adding strings together)
Type conversion
In some instances we might be force to convert a data type from initial
state to another
The process of Converting data type from one form to another is called
type conversion
Example:
Formatted strings
• Activity:
Read on formatted strings and its advantages
String Index
• All string are represented with a number called index
• Same index in arrays/list
• Example
Immutability
• The process of not supporting element reassignment
Exercise (type conversion)
Write a python program that will guess a users age base on the birth
year given.

• Hint: user should input only year of birth

• Final output: you are x years old. Where x should be the actual users
age
• Expect a “typeError” google your way out
List (Arrays) DS
• Ordered sequence of object or collection of items
• List can be of any data type
• In most programming language list are regarded as Arrays
• The symbol of list is a square bracket [1,2,musa, true,10.5]
• List also have indexing just like strings
• List are mutable while strings are not
• List slicing is the process of breaking a list into smaller list for
examples refer to jupyter notebook
List
• List and Array are use synonymous in programming Language.