Day 2: Guido, PEP8, If statements, Loops¶
“Code is read much more often than it is written” ~ Guido Von Rossum
Outline¶
- History: Guido, the BDFL
- Comments - howto and style
- Printing and %s notation - %s, %d, %.2f - old vs new notation - https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#formatstrings
- Printing n, r, t
- If, elif, else
- input
- for, while, break, continue
- pep8, flaking, linting - Oh my!
Homework¶
- LPTHW chapters 5,7,8,10
- Read from Zelle: 2.5 - 2.7, exercises 5-10
- Dive into python: Formatting strings
- Hook up Sublime (or whatever) with pyflakes, pylint
- Ask eleddy for access to a file. Make comments on style (pep8) in github. Open an issue, and assign the fixes to a fellow classmate. Next week we learn about version control and how to fix them.