1. Introduction to Python John Alexis Guerra Gómez CMSC433 Spring 2010 University of Maryland

2. Definition Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python’s elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.

3. More definition Python is cross platform (for many platforms). The standard library is huge, very useful, and is very well documented. http://docs.python.org/library/ Many companies make significant use of it Google uses it for a lot of their internal software projects David Bagget (speaking Tuesday) uses it in his start up company

4. The Interactive mode aguerra@eltiestico2:~$ python Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print "Hola mundo" Hola mundo

5. Working with a file Save your file as hola.py Run it with python hola.py

6. Basic types Numbers Strings Lists Tuples Maps Functions

7. Basic Data Types

8. Lists

9. Tuples

10. Dictionaries

11. Functions

12. Classes

13. Introspection

14. Functional Programming

15. Lists Comprehension

16. From Java to Python http://www.razorvine.net/python/PythonForJavaProgrammers

17. Google's developers Python Lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk

18. Some other things One of the things that I really like of Python is that you can use it for almost anything

19. You like video games http://www.pygame.org http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya3d/inde x.html http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya3d/inde x.html

20. Scientific Work http://www.scipy.org/ http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

21. Web developing http://www.djangoproject.com/ http://turbogears.org/

22. Database Access http://www.sqlobject.org/

23. GUI Development http://www.wxpython.org/ http://www.pygtk.org/ http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt

24. Image manipulation http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

25. More http://wiki.python.org/moin/UsefulModules