Python Basics and Control Statements

Topics

• Basics

  • Interactive and script modes
  • Program structure, indentation, identifiers and keywords
  • Operators, precedence and expression evaluation
  • Data types, mutability and type conversion
  • Input, output, comments and debugging

• Control flow

  • if-else and if-elif-else
  • while and for loops

Learning objectives

1. Write and debug a Python program that uses branching and loops.