Session Details

Week 2, Session 4 — Mon Mar 15

Reading

  1. Zelle Chapter 3
    (18 pages)

HW Due

  1. HW 3

Topics

  1. Number types: int, float, long
  2. Type conversion

Outline

  1. [5 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
  2. [8 min] Numeric data types
  3. [2 min] Type conversion: automatic and manual
  4. [10 min] Exercise on types: practiceNumberTypes section of session04.py
  5. [5 min] Break
  6. [25 min] List operations
  7. [5 minutes] List comprehensions, lists of Points
  8. [20 minutes] Begin Homework 4

Resources

  1. Slides: Number types, Lists and Strings
  2. session04.py: exercises to be done in class
  3. geometry.py: for your homework, started in class

HW Assigned

  1. HW 4