Hello all, Due to some complex scheduling issues, I am posting here the material we would have covered in lab tomorrow. Please feel free to contact me for any questions (data@library.columbia.edu). Enjoy! Python Objects and Classes (cont’d!) Self: What is the self variable in Python? The self variable represents the instance of the object itself. Unlike most object-oriented languages […]
Month: November 2017
Fall 2017 Python Open Lab Week 3
October 10, 2017 Week 3’s lab was intense! We started with list methods, where we left off last week and went through the following: list.append(x): Add an item to the end of the list. list.extend(L): Extend the list by appending all the items in the given […]
Fall 2017 Python Open Lab Week 2
Week 2: October 3rd This week we started with a brief review of the basics from week 1 and the starter kit. We continued on with Data Structures and worked through Lists, Tuples and Dictionaries. These concepts were easy to approach and we went over many practice examples on the way. Towards the end of […]
Fall 2017 Python Open Lab Week 1
Week 1 September 26 In week 1 of our Python Open lab, we introduced the Python Starter Kit and went over Python basics such as expressions, variables and statements, floats, statements, integers, strings, booleans, and control flow statements. The class was a mix of students with little to no experience with Python, to a few […]