CSIT 110 FUNDAMENTAL PROGRAMMING
WITH PYTHON
CSIT 110 LECTURE NOTES
“Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.”
--Winston Churchill
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Table of Contents
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CSIT 110 Lecture 1... 3
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CSIT 110 Lecture 3... 19
CSIT 110 Lecture 4... 31
CSIT 110 Lecture 5... 38
CSIT 110 Lecture 6... 43
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CSIT 110 Lecture 10 ... 82
CSIT 110 Lecture 11 ... 94
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CSIT 110 Lecture 1 Fundamental Programming With Python
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CSIT 110 Lecture 1
Input and Output 1
Comments
• We can put comments anywhere in the program:
✓ To make the program clearer for people to read and maintain
✓ To help people understand our program better, especially, if our program has a special logic that needs explanation
✓ Comments are not code, so they will not be executed
The print function
• print () will print a new empty line
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Variables and Data types
• a, b, c are called variables
✓ variables are reserved memory locations to store values
• Variables store values in certain data types:
✓ ***To check data type: print (type (variable_name)) 1. String
✓ str
✓ represents a sequence of characters
✓ With “” in a function
✓ The content inside the “” will be displayed in the output
✓ Can use either “” or ‘’
✓ Exp:
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✓ Exp:
✓ To check data type:
2. Integer
✓ int
✓ a whole number
✓ With no “” in a function
✓ The value of the number will be displayed in the output
✓ Exp:
✓ Exp:
✓ To check data type:
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3. Float
✓ float
✓ a decimal number
✓ Exp:
✓ To check data type:
✓ Some important math constants
4. Boolean
✓ bool
✓ Either True or False
✓ Exp:
✓ Exp:
✓ To check data type:
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5. Date data type
✓ Including year, month, day, (not the time)
✓ Exp:
6. Date-time data type
✓ Including year, month, day, hour, minute, second, …
✓ Exp:
