Lecture Notes, Tue 08/02

Number representation, state machines, numeric types, operators

Morning (Diba)

Lecture Slides:

Number representation

Picobot and state machines

Picobot and introduction to lab01

Source ppt

Afternoon (Phill)

• A little bit on lists (needed for H03)
• A little bit on Cyberdojo (needed for H03)
• More on functions (needed for H03)

More detail on Python from Guttag Chapter 2

• numeric types: int, float
• the bool and None types
• operators, expressions, variables and assignment
• if/else
• The string data type (str)
• getting input from the keyboard with raw_input
• while loops

Assignments

• Read Chapter 3 in Guttag before tomorrow’s lecture
• Homework h03