The Python Workshop - Second Edition

Table of Contents

Preface

1

Python Fundamentals – Math, Strings, Conditionals, and Loops

Overview

Introduction

Technical requirements

Opening a Jupyter Notebook

Python as a calculator

Standard math operations

Basic math operations

Order of operations

Exercise 1 – getting to know the order of operations

Python concept – spacing

Number types – integers and floats

Exercise 2 – integer and float types

Complex number types

Errors in Python

Variable assignment

Exercise 3 – assigning variables

Casting – changing types

Activity 1 – assigning values to variables

Variable names

Exercise 4 – naming variables

Multiple variables

Exercise 5 – assigning multiple variables

Comments

Exercise 6 – comments in Python

Docstrings

Activity 2 ...