Wednesday

Objectives

• Learn about the basic sequence types in Python
• Learn about iteration, more in depth
• Understand how to work with strings
• Understand how to work with dictionaries and sets
• Have a basic understanding of opening and reading files
• Understand how to use paths in Python
• Learn about Python packaging and distributions
• Make a distribution of a small project

Readings

• Watch The Clean Architecture in Python by Brandon Rhodes (chair of PyCon in Portland in 2016 and 2017) Use the lessons in your work planning the Mailroom Madness program.
• Read Packaging and Distributing Projects

Review

Concepts

• Introduction To Python: Part 3
  • Sequences
  • Iteration
  • String Features
  • Dictionaries and Sets
  • File Reading and Writing
  • Paths and Directories
• An Introduction to Python Packaging
  • Python Distributions - A History
  • Creating a Python Distribution
  • Installing a Distribution
  • Specifying Dependencies
  • Command-Line Python
  • Wrap Up

Demo

Assignments

• Kata Fourteen: Tom Swift Under Milk Wood
• Mail Room Madness: Planning
• Intro & Chapter 1 of Clean Code
• Today I learned...