Welcome to Coding 101 - It's the TWiT show that gives YOU the knowledge to live in the wonderful world of the programmer. This week we are introducing our newest module, Python with Code Warrior Dale Chase!

Recap how to download Python on your machine.

(This is important... 3.4.0 is NOT compatible with our lessons)

How to Open a script

User Submissions

To see all the code used in today's episode, go to Our Github Repository for Module 2

Structured Data in Python

One of the most basic data structures in Python is the LIST

NameOfList = [value1, value2, value3, value4];
The name of your list = [values];

To access the values contained within the list, you use the syntax:

NameOfList[index]

where "index" is a number between 0 and the number of values in your list-1

Example:

c101 = ['PadreSJ', 'Snubs', 'Dale Chase', 'Cranky_Hippo'];

will create a list named "c101" with entries 0-3 with the values of "PadreSJ", "Snubs", "Dale Chase", and "Cranky_Hippo"

If we wanted to access that list, we could write: print "The Following are members of the Coding 101 team:", c101[0], c101[1], c101[2], c101[3]

I could also update the values in the list by using the name of the list and the index I want to change:

Example:

c101[3] = "Bryan Burnett"

will change the value of the 4th element from "Cranky_Hippo" to "Bryan Burnett"

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Guest: Dale Chase

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