5. Programming with Python

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• 5.1. Starting python, command line and programming mode
  • 5.1.1. Starting up Python, the command line
  • 5.1.2. Executing Python scripts
• 5.2. Variables, expressions and statements
  • 5.2.1. Values and Types
  • 5.2.2. Order of operations
  • 5.2.3. Operations on strings and composition
• 5.3. Functions
  • 5.3.1. Keyboard input, types of variables and type conversion
  • 5.3.2. Math functions
• 5.4. Conditionals and recursion
  • 5.4.1. Boolean expressions: comparison operators
  • 5.4.2. Logical operators
  • 5.4.3. Conditional execution
• 5.5. Fruitful functions
  • 5.5.1. Adding new functions
• 5.6. Iteration
  • 5.6.1. The while statement, creating a table (part 1)
  • 5.6.2. The while statement, creating a table (part 2)
• 5.7. Strings
  • 5.7.1. Length of strings, string slices
  • 5.7.2. String traversal (part 1)
  • 5.7.3. String traversal (part 2), string methods
• 5.8. Lists
  • 5.8.1. Accessing elements, lists and for loops
  • 5.8.2. List deletion
  • 5.8.3. Matrices and gridded maps
  • 5.8.4. Strings and lists
• 5.9. Files
  • 5.9.1. Writing variables to a text file
  • 5.9.2. Reading from a text file