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BAKER INSTITUTE SPECIAL SEMINARCharles Danko, PhD, Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Life Sciences and TechnologyCollege of Veterinary Medicine, “Transcription as a lens for interpreting…

While there are no more conditional statements, Python does support a conditional expression. In this video we introduce an expression that evalues to something different, depending upon the boolean…

In this video we introduce the final conditional statement, the if-elif-else statement. This allows you to chose between an arbitrary number of options.

In this video we introduce the if-else statement. It is like the if statement, except that you now chose between two options.

In this video, we introduce this simplest form of conditional statement, the ifstatement. It allows us to skip over code if we do not wish to execute it.

Strings do not have a lot of functions associated with them. Instead, strings have methods. As we see in this video, methods behave almost exactly like functions, except that the syntax for calling…

In this video we show how to define the definition of a fruitful function (a function that can be used as an expression). It requires a new type of command: the return statement.

In this video, we show you how to define a procedure in the Python interactive shell. Recall that a procedure is a function that is used as a command.

This video series is where we start to pile on the vocabulary. In this video we reveiw the most important vocabulary terms for this series, and show you where to look if you are unsure about a word.

Right now, we do not know a lot of Python commands, and so our scripts are pretty boring. But we can make them a lot more interesting with a function that we have already seen: the input function. In…

While this new video/lecture format is allowing us to show you things we could not cover in year’s past, there is a limit to how much we can show you. Sometimes you are just going to need to…

Strings are very powerful type that we will use in the first major assignment. In this video we introduce the three main string functions that you should be aware of.

The easiest functions to use in Python are those that are built into it. They are listed on the Python Documentation page. In this video we examine some of these and show the syntax for how to use…

If you have programmed before (and it is okay if you have not), you may be used to variables having the restriction that they can only contain specific types. This is not the case in Python, and that…

Now that we have assignment statements, it is time to move beyond the simple calculator model of Python. As we see in this video, the order in which we type Python commands matters.

Now that we have some idea of what a variable is, it is time to start creating them. We do that with assignment statements, which are the subject of this video.