Python Hands On Session

Time:

14 January 2014
18:00 hrs to 19:30 hrs

Speaker/(s)

Rohan Prinja

Venue

NSL

Links

• Facebook event
• Event Pics
• Resources: Here is an interesting thread for various resources on our Google Group

Topics covered

• IDLE as a REPL
• Basic python syntax: Arithmetic
• Data types and conversion
• If/If-else blocks, while loops
• Lists, slicing notation
• Using in built generator functions
• For loops
• Tuples, immutable data
• Dicts
• List comprehensions
• Functions
• File I/O
• Which and try-catch
• Classes
• Various examples
• Lambdas

There also was a very enjoyable interactive session where various topics from functional programming to efficiency and compilers were discussed.

Announcements

• After some encouraging feedbacks online and from the interactive discussion post the session, we’ve decided to conduct an advanced session for python enthusiasts! :)

• We will also be shortly announcing about the python competition. Stay tuned for the same!