1.02-lesson-python-control-flow

Review python iteration, control flows, and functions

Unit 1, Lesson 4

Materials We Provide

Topic	Description	Link
Lesson	Jupyter notebook with instructions and empty cells for codealong	Link
Exercises	Jupyter notebook of 5 challenging exercises	Link
Solutions	Sample solutions to codealong	Link
Exercise Solutions	Solution code for 5 challenging exercises	Link

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Learning Objectives

• Explore Python control flow and conditional programming.
• Implement For and While loops to iterate through data structures.
• Apply if, else conditional statements.
• Demonstrate error-handling using try, except statements.
• Combine control flow and conditional statements to solve the classic "FizzBuzz" code challenge.

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Student Requirements

Before this lesson(s), students should already be able to:

• Know python data types: string, int, float, boolean, tuple, list, dictionary

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Lesson Outline

Total Time: 90 min

• Conditional statements (if/else statements)
  • Eat some broccoli ice cream
  • Get feedback on our health test
• For Loops
  • Greet our instructors
  • Loop through a range
  • Loop through unpacked tuples
• While Loops
  • Creating a loop that stops randomly
  • Create an infinite loop
• Error Handling
  • Stop ourselves from accidentally dividing by zero, which would really wreak havoc

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Additional Resources

For more information on this topic, check out the following resources:

• Control Flow - A Byte of Python

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Free book/blog here.

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