Programming 1
Lecture 1: Notes

To review the material from today's tutorial, please read these sections of Introducing Python:

• Chapter 1. A Taste of Py

  • Installing Python

  • Running Python

• Chapter 2. Data: Types, Values, Variables, and Names

  • (all sections)

• Chapter 3. Numbers

  • Booleans

  • Integers

  • Floats

• Chapter 4. Choose with if

  • (all sections)

• Chapter 5. Text Strings

  • Create with Quotes

  • Create with str()

  • Combine by using +

  • Duplicate with *

One important point I forgot to mention in class: to exit the Python interactive interpreter, type ctrl+D (on Linux or macOS), or ctrl+Z followed by Enter (on Windows).

There is no homework assignment this week, but the most important thing at this point is that you know how to enter Python code in a text editor, save it to a file, and run the file by invoking Python on the command line. Please make sure that you can do that. I recommend using Geany (http://geany.org) or another text editor intended for programmers. If you have trouble, let me know and I will help.