Python 101/102
summary
Quick Python crash course that builds a birthday-problem simulator using Python 2.6/2.7, IPython and stdlib modules (random, math, decimal) plus pip-installable libs; the script generates N rooms of M people, counts matching birthdays and compares experimental percent to the formula (example: 18 people × 25 trials → 28% matches vs expected 34%; 23 people × 100 trials → ~57% observed ≈ 50% theory). Also demos parsing live NWS RSS into a sqlite3 DB with feedparser + sqlite3 and shows the code on GitHub.
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chapters (36)
- 0:00Start
- 4:10Syntax
- 4:59Zen of Python
- 8:23Data Types
- 10:26Ipython
- 15:07Strings Are Immutable
- 19:08Multi Line Comments
- 20:07Strings
- 26:06For Loops
- 28:45Infinite While Loop
- 32:21Raw Input
- 36:39Bullying
- 37:19While Loop
- 44:26Dictionaries
- 47:20Reverse Lookup
- 49:38Looping over Dictionaries
- 54:15Reverse Matchup
- 58:06Functions
- 58:49Return Values with Functions
- 59:53Indents
- 1:00:52Editor Plugins
- 1:01:37Random
- 1:06:08Os Functions
- 1:09:06Find Matches
- 1:11:15List Comprehension
- 1:21:42Regular Expressions
- 1:24:37Lxml
- 1:25:56Feed Parser
- 1:26:35National Weather Service Alert Module
- 1:29:34Sqlite3
- 1:31:16Inheritance
- 1:32:16Import Directories in Python
- 1:33:44String Formatting
- 1:37:03Text Wrap
- 1:38:42General Python Help
- 1:39:13Resources for Learning Python
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