Coding notes

• Open source
• Build packages
• More and more packages developed
• There are packages for almost everything
• Swiss army knife of languages
• Version 2 and Version 3
• IPython Shell
• Use Python as a calculator
• It interprets what you write and prints it
• You can have python run scripts
• Execute the script
• Print inside script
• Script for python code script.py
• When I write in the shell it does not get checked so its a good way to work on things
• Print (7+10) and run and you get 17
• Add comments using “#”
• You add comments right above what you are doing
• You can use exponents **
• You can do it by putting “print (4 ** 2) the ** means to the power of
• You can use modulo %
• 18 % 7 = 4
• Variable Assignment - equal means assignment it doest mean equality in python
• Code behaves differently depending on the type