Week 4

Prepare

  • Read
  • Submit
    • Submit a .py file with your best attempt at the exercise Chess Dictionary Validator near the end of the textbook chapter in 1.5. NOTE: only found in the online version of the textbook.

Review

  • How to submit a question on Slack
  • How to find and run last week’s notebook’s
  • How to make/submit a .py file in Atom
  • Lecture - History of Computation
  • Importing Modules, os/sys
  • Functions
    • Defining functions, arguments, and keyword arguments
    • Returning values
    • Scope, local and global
    • Handling Exceptions
  • Storing Data
    • Lists
      • Why use lists, order series (flat data)
      • Creating a list, populated, blank
      • Looping a list with for
      • .append(), remove(), and delete() lists
      • Checking for subsets with in and not in
      • Splicing lists
    • Dictionaries
      • Why use dictionaries, unordered depth (nested data)
      • Looping
        • key, val
        • .keys(), .values(), .items()`
      • .pop(), delete()
      • pretty printing with pprint.pprint()
      • Checking if value is in
    • Functions
      • Using functions
      • Making your own function
        • Accepting argument(s)
        • Returning values
        • Scope
    • Class Exercise: Wikipedia Module
      • Having it search one term and auto download
      • Having it make a function that returns data for all terms