Lec 1

Next Lecture

Lec 1, Mon 01/06

Getting Started

• Introductions

• Course Structure and Policies

• All slides will be posted on the course website under “Lectures” -> “Link to Lecture Slides”

• Algorithm and pseudocode

• Running Python in IDLE

  print("Hello, World!")
  

• Breaking the code to see the errors
  • Notice that IDLE has helpful color-coding and highlighting to help you
  • Remove the last parenthesis )
    • Error in IDLE: unexpected EOF while parsing
  • Remove the last double quote "
    • the rest of the text after the removed quote turns green
    • Error in IDLE: unexpected EOL while parsing
  • Misspell print as prnit
    • print was previously displayed in purple (to indicate that Python knew that it a special keyword), prnit is now shown in black
    • Error in the Python Shell: NameError: name 'prnit' is not defined