By Alfredo Alvarez

Agenda: Find out who the instructor is. Talk about goals and why you want to learn python. Discuss the materials and the methodology for the class. Set up your equipment to start doing the online courses. Get Started using the python interpreter

 5 years at Microsoft SDE(4 years), SDET Lead(1.5 years)  2 years before that at Medical Startup  Uses Python to make games.  Currently Works at

 Name  What are you currently doing?  Why are you interested in learning to code?

 To guide python students while they use the most recent web courses to do their major studies of the python language.

 10 Weekly meetings to discuss(1.5 hour sessions) to design goals, projects, talk about exercises and work.  7 days a week support via .  First class is free – other 9 are 25$ dollars each.

 Online ◦ I recommend the CodeCademy course( ◦ Udacity  Free Books ◦ Intro to python programming book  ◦ Thinking like a computer scientist  ◦ Data Structure and algorithms book  ◦ Web ◦ Learning python the hardway ◦

 The expectation is that the student starts the Codecademy course after the first meeting and brings doubts to the class.  We use the class to reinforce concepts  We also try to outline a small project to finish by the time the 10 weeks are done.

 Download version and make sure it install the IDE idle. ◦  To validate the version of python run this on the python shell. ◦ import sys print sys.version || for should read print(sys.version)

 First program ever run in any language in python it goes like this: ◦ Print(“Hello World”);

 All programs in python start in the following way: if __name__ == "__main__": #code goes here #this is how you write comments.

 To take input from the console we use the input command:  #text is your first variable declaration  text = input()  print(text)

 Lets make it look like a real program: print(“Enter your name?”); name = input(); #this is call concatenation makes pieces of text be one line Print(“Hello” + name);

 Read From Dive into python: ◦ Section 1.8 ◦ Section 2.1  From Codecademy ◦ to=4fcba68767e7c b to=4fcba68767e7c b ◦ First 3 sections from python syntax module  Welcome to the flying circus  Variables  Data Types  For Questions ◦