Intro to Python

program

detailed set of instructions telling the computer what to do

programming language

a language to write a program

Python

programming language used to do lots of things like build websites, program robots, and design games

>>>

prompt. shows that computer is waiting for you to give it instructions

print("word")

displays whatever is inside quotation marks to the screen

error

mistake in your code

int

number

String

bunch of characters

boolean

true or false

variable

label to store some data (information)

character

any one thing you can type (ex. the letter 'c')

del

delete statement for a list element

loop

a way to tell the computer to repeat something again and again

identifier

variable name

concatenation

string addition

%

modulus: finds the remainder

tuple

immutable collection of elements

immutable

cannot be modified (ex. strings)

type-safe

don't need to first declare what data type your variable will be

indexing

numbering each element in a collection or each character in a string

list

mutable collection of elements

indentation

tab spacing to separate blocks of code

dictionary

mutable container of key-value pairs (immutable objects)

len()

calculates number of characters in a string

slicing

extract certain elements from a list or tuple and place them into another list/tuple

%s

placeholder in Python