• Jacopo Rigosa ([email protected])
• Alberto Sartori ([email protected])

• how to use python:

  • interactively (shell, jupyter)
  • script (...)

• identifiers, keywords, operators

• literals, compund data structures (i.e., tuple, list, set, dict)

• control flow tools (i.e., conditional, loops, reminder, context, exceptions)

  • special looping functions (i.e., reversed,zip,enumerate,sorted)

• definition of a function

  • keyword arguments
  • positional arguments
  • lambda expressions
  • function annotations

• exercises/lecture_1_exercises.py:

  • is_palindrome(string)
  • histogram_letters(string)
  • get_most_frequent(list)
  • which_duplicates(list)
  • compute_factorial(a)
  • is_prime(a)
  • is_divisor(a,b)

• https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/ introduces many Python’s features by example
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/ standard library that is distributed with python
• https://docs.python.org/3/extending/ how to write Python modules in C or C++
• https://docs.python.org/3/reference/ for syntax and “core semantics”

Part of the material was taken from this collection of notebooks