Python for Informatics's official Podcast.

Python for Informatics's official Podcast. episodes:

• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-01-Intro.mp3

  This is the Introductory lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information. It is a bit longer than the rest and give some background and motivation. If you are in a hurry - you could skip to the...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-02-Expressions.mp3

  This is the second lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information covering expressions, variables, and other Pyton language details. We are laying the groundwork for understanding the big picture. For a video version of this lecture, a free...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-03-Conditional.mp3

  This is the third lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and covers conditional execution. In this chapter we see how computer programs encode decisions and choices that they make. For a video version of this lecture,...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-04-Functions.mp3

  This is the fourth lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and covers functions. Functions are how we write programs without repeating ourself over and over. Functions a pretty advanced concept and we only cover them lightly in...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-05-Iterations.mp3

  This is the fifth lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and covers iterations or "loops". We see how to make Python do something over and over and look at commonly used loop patterns. We are still not...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-06-Strings.mp3

  This is the sixth lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and covers strings. While early computers mostly focused on numeric computations, today computers spend a lot of time handling text data so we take a look at how...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-07-Files.mp3

  This is the seventh lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and talks about reading and processing file data. Finally all the work in the previous chapters should start to make sense because we are actually starting to...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-08-Lists.mp3

  This is the eighth lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and describes our first data structure - Lists. Now that we are working with increasingly larger amounts of information we need more sophisitcated ways or organizing data...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-09-Dictionaries.mp3

  This is the ninth lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and covers dictionaries. Dictionaries are Python's most powerful way to store and organize data in a program. We are finally able to write programs to handle data...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-10-Tuples.mp3

  This is the tenth lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information. Tuples are a lot like lists - so in this chapter, we kind of are reviewing lists and dictionaries as will as learning about tuples. We also...

  
• 09.18.2013

  Py4Inf-11-Regex.mp3

  This is the eleventh lecture for Python For Informatics: Exploring Information and completes the first half of the book. Regular expressions allow us to look for patterns in data. They are both very cool and a seem little...