11 docs tagged with "Python"

Functions are verbs or actions that the computer or computer language will already know how to perform.

Conditionals allow you, the programmer, to allow your program to make decisions: As if your program has the choice between taking the left-hand road or the right-hand road based upon certain conditions.

Essentially, loops are a way to do something over and over again.

Exceptions are things that go wrong within our coding.

Libraries extend the abilities of Python. Some libraries are included by default with Python and simply need to be imported.

Testing your code is a natural part of the programming process. Unit tests allow you to test specific aspects of your code.

File I/O is the ability of a program to take a file as input or create a file as output.

Regular expressions or “regexes” will enable us to examine patterns within our code.

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a compelling solution to programming-related problems.

We will be focusing upon many of the “et cetera” items not previously discussed. “Et cetera” literally means “and the rest”!

We are going to work with a higher-level programming language called Python.