Programming Bootcamp for Scientists #5

Bootcamp

  • 00:00 Keyboard shortcuts for the slides

  • 01:25 Reviewing the exercises from the previous chapter. Talking about operator precedence.

  • 04:09 The math module of Python. Attributes and methods.

  • 09:45 The Python interactive shell (REPL).

  • 19:40 The beginning of the "Second steps" chapter up till "Conditional main".

  • 19:55 Modules - the sys module, getsizeof.

  • 30:00 The main function, indentation.

  • 35:25 Can a function be named the same name as an already existing function?

  • 37:10 Indentation

  • 38:36 Conditional main (dunderscore) (error correction: those are quotations around "main" not parentheses.)

  • Python Slides

Author

Gabor Szabo (szabgab)

Gabor Szabo, the author of the Python Maven web site.

Gabor Szabo