Tuesday

Objectives

• Deepen our understanding of functions in Python, including scoping and recursion
• Build a strong knowledgs of Boolean values, and how to use them Pythonically
• Learn a bit about looping and the basic container types
• Discover Modules, Packages and namespaces and learn to import names
• Learn about TDD principles
• Develop a small project using TDD and pytest

Readings

• http://effbot.org/zone/import-confusion.htm
• Watch Ned Batchelder from the EdX project talk about testing (~40 min)
• Thoughts on Pair Programming

Review

Review materials from the previous lesson:

• Values and Types
• Expressions and Statements
• Symbols and Binding
• Blocks
• Introduction to Functions
• REPL, iPython, help, and dir

Concepts

• Introduction To Python: Part 2
  • Functions
  • Conditionals and Booleans
  • Simple Looping and Containers
  • Modules, Packages and Namespaces
• Test Driven Development with pytest
  • What is TDD
  • Exploring TDD
  • Wrap Up

Demo

• Recursion
• Conditionals and Boolean Return Values
• Test Driven Development with pytest

Assignments

• Mathematical Series
• Create a Twitter Account
• Sign up for Lightning Talks
• Today I learned...

If you finish those, spend time running through the next four chapters of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Sign up for an account and read and work through the exercises in:

• Chapter 4: Python Turtle Graphics
• Chapter 5: Python Modules
• Chapter 6: Functions
• Chapter 7: Selection

There is no submission for these review materials.