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These are notes and links for a tutorial on Python given at The Oxford
Institute.
Pros and cons
Download and install
https://www.python.org/downloads/
Try online
How it works
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/python/how-python-runs-programs/
Lessons
Concepts
- Compiler.
- Byte code.
- Virtual machine.
- Shell.
- Expression.
- Operator.
- Precedence.
- Using brackets.
- Division vs. floor division.
- Remainder.
- Library.
- Import.
- Function call.
- Syntactic and semantic errors.
- Variable.
- Identifier.
- Assignment.
- Integer, real, string, data types.
- Quoting.
- Subscripting.
- 0-based vs. 1-based indexing.
- Concatenation.
- Operator overloading.
- Lists.
- Append.
- Lists of lists.
- Python 2 vs. Python 3 differences.
- Incompatibility.
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