Text book introduction and first chapter

Summary

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each chapter of the book will be preceded by a summary of what the chapter is about and the chapter questions that you can have them in mind as you read through the chapter text and workout the code string transcription.

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You can compute expressions with a calculator or type string concatena-
tions with a word processor. You can even do string replication easily by
copying and pasting text. But expressions, and their component values—
operators, variables, and function calls—are the basic building blocks
that make programs. Once you know how to handle these elements, you
will be able to instruct Python to operate on large amounts of data for you.
It is good to remember the different types of operators (+, -, *, /, //, %,
and ** for math operations, and + and * for string operations) and the three
data types (integers, floating-point numbers, and strings) introduced in this
chapter.
A few different functions were introduced as well. The print() and input()
functions handle simple text output (to the screen) and input (from the key-
board). The len() function takes a string and evaluates to an int of the num-
ber of characters in the string. The str(), int(), and float() functions will
evaluate to the string, integer, or floating-point number form of the value
they are passed.
In the next chapter, you will learn how to tell Python to make intelli-
gent decisions about what code to run, what code to skip, and what code to
repeat based on the values it has. This is known as flow control, and it allows
you to write programs that make intelligent decisions.

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Practice Questions

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1. Which of the following are operators, and which are values?
   *
   ‘hello’
   -88.8
   –
   /
   +
   5

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2. Which of the following is a variable, and which is a string?
   spam
   ‘spam’

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3. Name three data types.

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4. What is an expression made up of? What do all expressions do?

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5. This chapter introduced assignment statements, like spam = 10. What is
the difference between an expression and a statement?

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6. What does the variable bacon contain after the following code runs?
bacon = 20
bacon + 1

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7. What should the following two expressions evaluate to?
‘spam’ + ‘spamspam’
‘spam’ * 3

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8. Why is eggs a valid variable name while 100 is invalid?

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9. What three functions can be used to get the integer, floating-point
number, or string version of a value?

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10. Why does this expression cause an error? How can you fix it?
‘I have eaten ‘ + 99 + ‘ burritos.’

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Extra credit: Search online for the Python documentation for the len()
function. It will be on a web page titled “Built-in Functions.” Skim the
list of other functions Python has, look up what the round() function
does, and experiment with it in the interactive shell.

 

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What Is Programming?

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“Do this; then do that.”
“If this condition is true, perform this action; otherwise, do that action.”
“Do this action that number of times.”
“Keep doing that until this condition is true.”

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You can combine these building blocks to implement more intricate
decisions, too. For example, here are the programming instructions, called
the source code, for a simple program written in the Python programming
language.

 

Starting at the top, the Python software runs each line of code
(some lines are run only if a certain condition is true or else Python runs
some other line) until it reaches the bottom.
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passwordFile = open(‘SecretPasswordFile.txt’)
v secretPassword = passwordFile.read()

w print(‘Enter your password.’)
typedPassword = input()

x if typedPassword == secretPassword:

y print(‘Access granted’)

z if typedPassword == ‘12345’:
{ print(‘That password is one that an idiot puts on their luggage.’)
else:
| print(‘Access denied’)
You might not know anything about programming, but you could prob-
ably make a reasonable guess at what the previous code does just by reading
it. First, the file SecretPasswordFile.txt is opened u,

 

and the secret password in
it is read v.

 

Then, the user is prompted to input a password (from the key-
board) w.

 

These two passwords are compared x,

 

and if they’re the same,
the program prints Access granted to the screen y.

 

Next, the program checks
to see whether the password is 12345 z and hints that this choice might not
be the best for a password {. If the passwords are not the same, the pro-
gram prints Access denied to the screen |.

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NOTE –  #u#… Letters surounded by # # are place markers

Not code… do not transcribe

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#u#  passwordFile = open(‘SecretPasswordFile.txt’)
#v# secretPassword = passwordFile.read()
#w# print(‘Enter your password.’)
       typedPassword = input()
#x# if typedPassword == secretPassword:
#y#    print(‘Access granted’)
#z#       if typedPassword == ‘12345’:{ print(‘That password is one that an idiot puts on.     . their luggage.’)
     else:
         print(‘Access denied’)

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What Is Python?

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See text book introduction chapter automate the boring stuff

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Programmers Don’t Need to Know Much Math

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See text book introduction chapter automate the boring stuff

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Downloading and Installing Python

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See text book introduction chapter automate the boring stuff

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The Interactive Shell

 

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Transcribe this code below into.(Qpython3)

interactive shel

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>>> print(‘Hello world!’)

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CHAPTER 1

Python Basics

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Entering Expressions into the Interactive Shell

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>>> 2 + 2

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>>> 2

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OPERATORS……………………………result

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** Exponent 2 ** 3.  …………… …………….8
% Modulus/remainder 22 % 8. …………….. 6
// Integer division/floored quotient 22 // 8….. 2
/ Division 22 / 8 ……………………………..2.75
* Multiplication 3 * 5 ………………………….15
– Subtraction 5 – 2 ……………………………..3
+ Addition 2 + 2……………………………….. 4

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–TRANSCRIBE EACH 4 TIMES–

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>>> 2 + 3 * 6

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>>> (2 + 3) * 6
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>>> 48565878 * 578453
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>>> 2 ** 8
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>>> 23 / 7
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>>> 23 // 7
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>>> 23 % 7
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>>> 2 + 2
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>>> (5 – 1) * ((7 + 1) / (3 – 1))
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The Integer, Floating-Point, and String Data Types

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Table 1-2:

Common Data Types
Data type Examples
Integers -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Floating-point numbers -1.25, -1.0, –0.5, 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.25
Strings ‘a’, ‘aa’, ‘aaa’, ‘Hello!’, ’11 cats’

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String Concatenation and Replication

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–Transcribe code below–

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>>> ‘Alice’ + ‘Bob’

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>>> ‘Alice’ * 5
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Storing Values in Variables

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Assignment Statements

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— See textbook explanation chapter 1 automatetheboringstuff

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TRANSCRIBE BELOW

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>>> spam = 40
>>> spam

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>>> eggs = 2
>>> spam + eggs
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>>> spam + eggs + spam
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>>> spam = spam + 2
>>> spam
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>>> spam = ‘Hello’
>>> spam
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>>> spam = ‘Goodbye’
>>> spam
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Variable Names

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— see text book description chapter 1 automate the boring stuff

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Your First Program

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Transcribe each piece of code three times after you’ve done all of the code three times into it one time into the queue Python 3 shell and get it to work…

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    # I’m a comment because I’m preceded by a hash mark

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# This program says hello and asks for my name. I’m also a comment
>>>print(‘Hello world!’)

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>>>print(‘What is your name?’) # ask for their name
>>>myName = input()

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>>>print(‘It is good to meet you, ‘ + myName)
>>>print(‘The length of your name is:’)
>>>print(len(myName))

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>>>print(‘What is your age?’) # ask for their age
>>>myAge = input()
>>>print(‘You will be ‘ + str(int(myAge) + 1) + ‘ in a year.’)

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# This program says hello and asks for my name.
>>>print(‘Hello world!’)
>>print(‘What is your name?’) # ask for their name
>>>myName = input()
>>>print(‘It is good to meet you, ‘ + myName)
>>>print(‘The length of your name is:’)
>>>print(len(myName))

>>>print(‘What is your age?’) # ask for their age
>>>myAge = input()
>>>print(‘You will be ‘ + str(int(myAge) + 1) + ‘ in a year.’)

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Dissecting Your Program

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See textbook for detailed descriptions and instructions chapter 1

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The print() Function

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The print() function displays the string value inside the parentheses on the
screen.

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>>>print(‘Hello world!’)
>>>print(‘What is your name?’) # ask for their name

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The input() Function

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The input() function waits for the user to type some text on the keyboard
and press enter.

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>>>myName = input()

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Printing the User’s Name

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The following call to print() actually contains the expression ‘It is good to
meet you, ‘ + myName between the parentheses.

>>>print(‘It is good to meet you, ‘ + myName)

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The len() Function

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print(‘The length of your name is:’)
print(len(myName))

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>>> len(‘hello’)
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>>> len(‘My very energetic monster just scarfed nachos.’)
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>>> len(”)

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The str(), int(), and float() Functions

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>>> str(29)
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>>> print(‘I am ‘ + str(29) + ‘ years old.’)
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>>> str(0)
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>>> str(-3.14)
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>>> int(’42’)
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>>> int(‘-99’)
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>>> int(1.25)
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>>> int(1.99)
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>>> float(‘3.14’)
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>>> float(10)
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>>> spam = input()
101
>>> spam
‘101’

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>>> spam = int(spam)
>>> spam
101

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>>> spam * 10 / 5
202.0

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>>> int(7.7)
7
>>> int(7.7) + 1
8

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print(‘What is your age?’) # ask for their age
myAge = input()

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print(‘You will be ‘ + str(int(myAge) + 1) + ‘ in a year.’)

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The myAge variable contains the value returned from input()

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Text and Number Equivalence
Although the string value of a number is considered a completely different
value from the integer or floating-point version, an integer can be equal to a
floating point.
>>> 42 == ’42’
False
>>> 42 == 42.0
True
>>> 42.0 == 0042.000
True
Python makes this distinction because strings are text, while integers and
floats are both numbers.

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I made an error

Please forgive me my friends.

In my most recent post I made a slight error in in guiding you.

To get the download for your textbook quote automate the boring stuff you need to go 2 the navigation shutter the menu shutter in the top right corner of the page open it to the drop-down menu and go to text books.

Open textbooks and you will see a photograph of the textbook you were looking for

“Automate the boring stuff.”

There is a link for that textbook right there that will give you a free pdf download...

I apologize for the slight confusion and hope this remedies The Dilemma.

Keyboard navigation- Python prerequisite

Python

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Prerequisites

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Keyboard navigation

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NOTE… to be certain that you are viewing the code with proper syntax and block structure you should open your browser to desktop site. If you are using Chrome browser on Android then tap the three dots at the top right corner in the drop-down menu it will say desktop site second from the bottom tap that to get a proper view of the code and its structure.

I will make every effort to present the code and block structure so that it is appropriate in mobile view but there may be times when that is impossible so always double-check with desktop view and also double check by simply referring to your textbook

“Automate the boring stuff”

Refer to the textbook whenever you are in doubt about weather a piece of code snippet is input or returned.

 

It is good practice to transcribe the return but it is not a requirement especially with long returns

To avoid your confusion take notice of the map keys that I am now going to give you for all of the homework assignments.

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Bold text indicates the original code snippet from the textbook that you are to transcribe

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Normal text preceded by a hash mark in the code is the return you will get from the code.

For example

>>>print(‘how goes it friend’) #code

# ‘how goes it friend’   ………. #return

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Transcribe your code to Google Docs in normal text like the text you see here. Separate each copy of code transcription by a series of dots so that you can keep track of where you are working

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The first space under each code snippet will be provided for you to enter your transcription and will be followed by two lines of dots two separate that code snippet from the next one as below

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_Transcribe your code here –

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Normal Text that has a hash mark for header and footer is information from the textbook to explain the code you are working onlike what you see here…

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Two dots indicates a break in the subject matter like what you see directly above this line of text.

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Assignment 1

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The objective of this lesson assignment is to strengthen your keyboard skills and navigations.

You do not need to worry too much about what this code does at this time these are being pulled from multiple chapters in The Textbook because they are hard to type but we will go over these code Snippets in detail and in context as we go through the books.

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Assignment instructions

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transcribe each code snipet at least 4 times.

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From Ch. 8

Backslash on Windows and Forward Slash on OS X and Linux

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>>> import os

>>> os.path.join(‘usr’, ‘bin’, ‘spam’)

‘usr\\bin\\spam’

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Find the multiple file types

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>>> myFiles = [‘accounts.txt’, ‘details.csv’, ‘invite.docx’]

>>> for filename in myFiles:

  print(os.path.join(‘C:\\Users\\asweigart’, filename))

# C:\Users\asweigart\accounts.txt
  C:\Users\asweigart\details.csv
  C:\Users\asweigart\invite.docx

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>>> import os

>>> os.getcwd()

‘C:\\Python34’

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>>>os.chdir(‘C:\\Windows\\System32’)

>>> os.getcwd()

‘C:\\Windows\\System32’

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PyPDF2. To install it, run
pip install PyPDF2 from the command line. This module name is case sen￾sitive, so make sure the y is lowercase and everything else is uppercase.

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From Ch. 13

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>>> import PyPDF2

>>> pdfFileObj = open(‘meetingminutes.pdf’, ‘rb’)

>>> pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)

>>> pdfReader.numPages

# 1 -19

>>> pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0)

>>> pageObj.extractText()

# 2 – ‘OOFFFFIICCIIAALL BBOOAARRDD MMIINNUUTTEESS Meeting of March 7, 2015
\n The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall provide leadership…
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>>>importPyPDF

>>>pdfFileObj = open(‘meetingminutes.pdf’, ‘rb’)

>>>pdfReader =PyPDF2.pdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)

>>>pdfReader.numPages

# 1

>>>pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0)

>>>pageObj.extractText()

# 2

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>>> import PyPDF2

>>> pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(open(‘encrypted.pdf’, ‘rb’))

>>> pdfReader.isEncrypted

# 1 – True

>>> pdfReader.getPage(0)

# 2 -Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<pyshell#173>”, line 1, in <module>
pdfReader.getPage()
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File “C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\pdf.py”, line 1173, in getObject
raise utils.PdfReadError(“file has not been decrypted”)
PyPDF2.utils.PdfReadError: file has not been decrypted
>>> pdfReader.decrypt(‘rosebud’)

# 3 -1

>>> pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0)

# 4 -returns page content

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From Ch. 12

Writing Excel Documents

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Creating and Saving Excel Documents

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>>> import openpyxl

>>> wb = openpyxl.Workbook()

>>> wb.get_sheet_names()

#1 [‘Sheet’]

>>> sheet = wb.get_active_sheet()

>>> sheet.title

#2 ‘Sheet’

>>> sheet.title = ‘Spam Bacon Eggs Sheet’

>>> wb.get_sheet_names()

#3 [‘Spam Bacon Eggs Sheet’]

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Writing Values to Cells

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>> import openpyxl

>>> wb = openpyxl.Workbook()

>>> sheet = wb.get_sheet_by_name(‘Sheet’)

>>> sheet[‘A1’] = ‘Hello world!’

>>> sheet[‘A1’].value

# ‘Hello world!’

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From Ch 11

-Finding Elements on the web Page-

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Not and duplicate block structure

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from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get(‘http://inventwithpython.com‘)

try:

   elem = browser.find_element_by_class_name(‘bookcover’)

   print(‘Found <%s> element with that class name!’ % (elem.tag_name))

except:

   print(‘Was not able to find an element with that name.’)

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From Ch 9

Compressing Files with the zipfile Module

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>> import zipfile, os

>>> os.chdir(‘C:\\’) # move to the folder with example.zip

>>> exampleZip = zipfile.ZipFile(‘example.zip’)

>>> exampleZip.namelist()

# [‘spam.txt’, ‘cats/’, ‘cats/catnames.txt’, ‘cats/zophie.jpg’]

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From invent games with python

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Do not duplicate the numbers on the Left margin they are not part of the code

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Game Code ( outline )

TELLING JOKES

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print(‘What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?’)

2. input()

3. print(‘Frostbite!’)

4. print()

5. print(‘What do dentists call a astronaut’s cavity?’)

6. input()

7. print(‘A black hole!’)

8. print()

9. print(‘Knock knock.’)

10. input()

11. print(“Who’s there?”)

12. input()

13. print(‘Interrupting cow.’)

14. input()

15. print(‘Interrupting cow wh’, end=”)

16. print(‘-MOO!’)

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From ch 3

Magic 8-ball

For loops

 

# duplicate the block structure it is part of the sentax.

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import random

def getAnswer(answerNumber):

  if answerNumber == 1:

      return ‘It is certain’

  elif answerNumber == 2:

     return ‘It is decidedly so’

  elif answerNumber == 3:

      return ‘Yes’

  elif answerNumber == 4:

      return ‘Reply hazy try again’

  elif answerNumber == 5:

      return ‘Ask again later’

  elif answerNumber == 6:

      return ‘Concentrate and ask again’

  elif answerNumber == 7:

      return ‘My reply is no’

  elif answerNumber == 8:

      return ‘Outlook not so good’

  elif answerNumber == 9:

      return ‘Very doubtful’

r = random.randint(1, 9)

fortune = getAnswer(r)

print(fortune)

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From Ch 4

Converting Types with the list() and tuple() Functions

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>>> tuple([‘cat’, ‘dog’, 5])
(‘cat’, ‘dog’, 5)

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>>> list((‘cat’, ‘dog’, 5))
[‘cat’, ‘dog’, 5]

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>>> list(‘hello’)
[‘h’, ‘e’, ‘l’, ‘l’, ‘o’]

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From Ch 5

Building dictionaries

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birthdays = {‘Alice’: ‘Apr 1’, ‘Bob’: ‘Dec 12’, ‘Carol’: ‘Mar 4’}

while True:

   print(‘Enter a name: (blank to quit)’)

   name = input()

   if name == ”:

      break

   if name in birthdays:

      print(birthdays[name] + ‘ is the birthday of ‘ + name)

   else:

      print(‘I do not have birthday information for ‘ + name)

      print(‘What is their birthday?’)

      bday = input()
      birthdays[name] = bday

      print(‘Birthday database updated.’)

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The Get method ()

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>>> picnicItems = {‘apples’: 5, ‘cups’: 2}

>>> ‘I am bringing ‘ + str(picnicItems.get(‘cups’, 0)) + ‘ cups.’

# ‘I am bringing 2 cups.’

>>> ‘I am bringing ‘ + str(picnicItems.get(‘eggs’, 0)) + ‘ eggs.’

# ‘I am bringing 0 eggs.’

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Okay folks that’s it for this lesson normally we will try to do one full chapter out of the book every week but for now I think this will have you pretty well occupied for about a week and pulling your hair out and hating life sorry about that. But if we get the really nasty heavy lifting out of the way up front everything else will be much easier trust me until next week

…keep coding…

 

TWD Python course introduction

Thinking web development

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Introduction

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python

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prerequisites

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First of all welcome to the python class I’m glad you could join me.

Second of all I bet a bunch of you or griping about how I’m late on this lesson plan, all I got to say to that is that if I wanted a punch clock job I would work at a factory or a convenience store.

Besides all of that, once the lesson plan is up it will be up for as long as the website is up and I hope that will be a long time.

 

In this lesson plan we are going to cover the text books you will need for this entire class.  

 

I will present you with your first lesson which is not so much coding as much as it is a necessity prior to coding and that is strong keyboard navigation skills.

 

In this assignment and in every assignment the first and foremost thing will be syntax. If you write good code but your sentaxt is bad the code will not work… it will not work at all. It’s kind of like having a car sitting in your backyard with no transmission, in it it’s, just going to sit there and rust.

There are two textbooks that go with this course . you will need both of them you can get both of them as a PDF download and thanks to the very generous efforts of

Mr. Al Sweigart

the text book’s can be acquired for free as open copyright (check the RESOURCE PAGE FOR DOWNLOAD LINKS.)

I am grateful to Mr. Al Sweigart and cannot extol his virtues as an instructor enough ( and a compassionate human being in general)  Even though you can get the PDFs there are some textbooks that you want to have a hard copy and I strongly, strongly, strongly recommend that you shell out a few bucks to mr. Swigart to show your gratitude for all the effort he’s put into helping you to Learn Python.

In regards to credit for the learning process that also goes to mister Al Sweigart…  I have simply adapted the text books to a format suitable for our lesson plans.

The textbooks you will need to download are Automate the boring stuff by Al Sweigart and Invent with python also by Al Sweigart… May also be titled invent games with python by Al Sweigart.

 

You will need some software to do these lesson plans. if you are on a laptop then you will need to download the Python 3 interactive shell. OR Qpython3 for android/ i-phone It is a free download and it is essential for learning this code.

In addition to the python interactive shell you will also need to get comfortable with Google Docs

go to Google Play Store and download Microsoft Word for either Android or iPhone which ever you will be using.

I also highly recommend

“ @voice reader “

TTS to simulate class lecture.

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I RECOMEND

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This is the way I do my studying just so you know and you can do it too…

Once you have downloaded the textbooks you can open a textbook in Microsoft Word so that you can read the text book and at the same time you can open Google documents in order to do the transcription of the code assignments.

After you have done the transcription of your coding assignments to strengthen your sentext memory and abilities then you can take a couple of the code Snippets and try to make them work in the interactive shell…

This is verification that you are doing the syntax correctly and you are getting your coding skills together…

 

The reason I recommend that you do the lessons in this order is because I personally feel like trying to learn the syntax, block structure and the code architecture at the same time is strenuous to say the least

 

if you cannot get the code to run correctly in the Shell right off you might be thinking to give up (BUT DON’T GIVE UP)

Therefore work on the sentax first

Then just take a couple of the code Snippets and get them to run in the python shell when you feel like it

 

there is no rush this is not a race the objective is not to finish an assignment but rather to have a true understanding of what you were doing that you will carry with you for the remainder of your life and employ those skills towards a successful career.

2019 Python for the serious student

W3school – Python components

…Wow, I am working my booty off to get these lesson plans together for you guys and I promise they are well underway I already have six together and there will be at least 17 lessons of in-depth python tutorials possibly more.

Until I can get the lesson plans online there are a few prerequisites that you should attend to the first one is not necessary but will make your life much less stressful. Until I can get the tutorials ready for you go to w3c and become thoroughly acquainted with the basic components that build a Python program.

You should also take some time at least an hour a day to get on your cell phone computer whatever you are using and write some code you can use the lesson plans from the HTML because the objective is to get comfortable with the keyboard and that will serve you well… I expect the post the first lesson plan for python within two weeks today is the 26th

I fully intend to have at least the first lesson plan in Python posted by the 7th until then stay strong keep working on your code and I will check you shortly

Learn Python 3 beginning March 1st 2019

Please download the

‘ Learn Python ‘ app

pictured left from the Google Play Store as it will be critical to the python lesson plan beginning in March 2019.

 

I will do my very best to start uploading lesson plans for Python 3 starting in late February early March.

Although I am doing most of my work from my Droid cell phone the lesson plans for Python 3 will be generalized to accommodate those of you using Microsoft Windows or McIntosh.

Don’t give up… February 1st 2019

I want you guys to know that I haven’t forgotten you and I don’t mean to neglect you.
If you might recall last September I told you it was my intention to start pursuing my studies in Python programming. And it is because I am true to my word and am sincerely applying myself to learning Python Programming with a focus ultimately toward developing software for machine learning.
As the rest of you are consumed with your daily responsibilities so am I. I am spending 8 hours a day working out of necessity and at least 4 to 6 hours a day 6 days a week diligently pursuing my studies and Python programming.
This is just a little note short and to the point to let you know that I will return with further lessons in HTML and CSS front-end development shoshortly.
Also I will try at some point this month February 2019 to post the online resources text book and study materials I personally am using to Learn Python programming .
Once I do that you can go ahead and begin to study Python Programming as well and sometime toward the end of March 1st of April 2019. Once I believe I am competent to offer you guidance I will start posting lesson plans to begin learning Python Programming as well…

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Until I can resume posting lesson plans I would like to leave you with a short story…
When I was 5 years old I decided that I wanted to learn how to ride a bicycle and all I had was a tricycle and my mother had a 3-speed Beach bike.
All of my peers in the neighborhood we’re already riding bicycles… at least it seemed to me and I wanted to learn to ride a bicycle not a little kids toy like a tricycle.
So one day with my mother’s permission I got her Beach bike out and decided I was going to teach myself to ride a bicycle.
Even though it was designed as a women’s bicycle with a low Center Bar the tires were higher than my hip and I had to stand on the pedals because the seat was too hard for me to sit on it and pedal at the same time.
I made it out of the driveway and took the first turn and probably went about a hundred feet before I fell the first time but I was standing on the pedal so I kind of caught myself… but the pedal hit me in the back of my leg and dragged my other leg where the low pedal was along the ground as the point of the seats truck me between my shoulder blades.
Back on the pedals again I went about another two hundred feet where I had to make another left hand turn and this time I did not catch myself and I fell over sideways at a pretty good speed in the gravel and skinned up my left leg and my shoulder and hurt quite a lot… And then in anger I got back on those pedals again
And now I was going at a pretty good clip and I was Now by my neighbor’s house where I hit a bump in the road in the back tire jostled and I fell down and banged up my knee and my left elbow as well as the already ripped up left side…
I was in true pain and tears were streaming down my face and I got back on those pedals and I started pushing those pedals again this time kind of timid taking it nice and slow then finally I had gotten good balance on the bike and I made it the other half of the way around the block which was about a half a mile circumference.
With blood dripping off of my knee and my left elbow I pedaled right past the house and kept pushing those pedals and took that first turn again and this time I didn’t slip. I kept pedaling past my neighbor’s house and I saw the bump in the road and this time I didn’t fall off the bike…
I came all the way around the block the second time and by then I was even able to somewhat sit on the seat while I push the pedals and I rode up through the back gate of our yard.
“I got off of the bike and I had the most wonderful experience of accomplishment.”

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While it is true that you will not injure yourself learning to write programs for computer science it is true that you will experience a similar frustration to what you felt when you first learned how to ride a bike.
and it is for this reason that I strongly encourage you to set aside a specific amount of time every day to study.
At first just understanding syntax and do it every day and then after you’ve got the send text down pretty tight start duplicating simple software programs that others offer you online to download and duplicate. Then try to run those programs.
keep in mind the most important thing is to understand the syntax and punctuation of your software language and focus on that.
Although it is the most boring part of writing software / programming it is the most important part.
If your syntax does not correct your program will not work. If you have to do a whole lot of software debugging you will get discouraged… so always work out your programming muscles with syntax and then after you’ve done a couple of hours of syntax… take a shot at working on some software that you can download and copy
“ if your practice software doesn’t run don’t worry about it.”
just stick to your training program.
your programming muscles will build up your programming balance will strengthen.
Before long you’ll have that feeling of accomplishment that I had when I was 5 years old and rode my mom’s beach cruiser into the backyard without falling. : ))

Lesson 12 – FTP pic tutorial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open freewah.com client area.

Also open your text editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whatever you have your home page titled title it now simply

index.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter your password.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Login.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the overview of control panel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is close up of right hand side of control panel where you find your FTP information to upload.

Note the purple Link in the image is what you want to click but before you do that copy the URL of your website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice that FTP and username or both the URL for your website so paste those FTP and username.

Your FTP password is the same as your password for your client area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After you enter your FTP login credentials you will be taking to this page you see below which it goes directly to your root file.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you don’t need to do anything with the files you see in the pic above that are pre-installed on the server. I’m just showing you these so that you know what they are and basically leave them alone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open a new browser window and paste URL for your website in the browser window and it will show you the following page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

leave the second browser window open displaying your website page that you just opened and go back to your FTP server.

Note: you will have to reenter all of your login information as you did in step 2 through step 5…

Yes I agree with you it’s a major pain in the ass.

Once you have logged back in through your FTP hit the upload button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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after you hit the upload files button you will be taking to the FTP upload page where you will see a gray button that says choose a file.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select documents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open the folder on your hard drive that contains the.

index.html.

And select the file like you would any other file.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the screen in the image above will open with a message saying that the file has been uploaded to the server by FTP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click the green check mark at the top to confirm the upload.

After you have click the top green check mark you will be taken back to the server file page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go back to your second browser page that displays your website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Refresh the page.

Hopefully you’re using a Chrome browser if so lookin the top right corner and open the drop-down menu… and sellect refresh… to refresh the page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

after you refresh the page you should see a homepage similar to something like what is in the image below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if you have follow these instructions correctly you should now see the web view of the rough draft for your homepage similar to the image above.

~~Congratulations !  You have just published your first page on the web …

good job ::)))

 

In our next lesson I will show you how to access this page and edit it so that you can start hooking up your links for your images and you never gation buttons and any other modifications you wish to make.

It’s really very easy  : )

I’ll check you in the next lesson…

 

I realize that if you’ve never used FTP before you may struggle with this lesson a little bit so there is no homework assignment tonight except to get your index page on your web server and then review it through your web browser to confirm you are successful.

Lesson 11 “the index page”

~~ Assignment 1

Your assignment for this lesson is to manually copy the index page code that you see below this lesson plan into your text editor.

Once you have manually copied the example index page into your text editor, view it in your browser View.

Take note of the place holders and how they function for you images and for the link buttons and images and the header and footer.

~~ Assignment 2

Once you have viewed this example code in your browser View and understand the placeholders method for images and links;

Then your next objective is to edit the code so that it is appropriate for the website that you are specifically building for yourself.

~~ Assignment 3

Once you have edited the index page example,

Make sure to save your edited index.html page to your hard drive.

Make 6 duplicates of the index page but save them with the following file names…

Page2.html

Page3.html

Page4.html

Page5.html

Page6.html

As you may recall in earlier discussions the index page is your landing page or your homepage so technically the index page is page one on your website.

Your website in the beginning will have a total of 6 pages.

As you flesh out your website you will title these Pages cordingley to what they are intended to convey to the end user.

~~ Assignment 4

once you have edited the code below to fit the needs of your website you are to upload your edited index page via FTP client of your choice to your server on freewha hosting.

I recognize we have not gone over using an FTP client and that will be covered in the next lesson.

For the time being, try to figure it out on your own. Use your research skills. There are plenty of resources online to guide you and if you cannot figure it out on your own then hold tight because we will be covering the details of  FTP in the next lesson.

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<!Doctype html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta chrset=”utf-8″>
<title>Thinking Web Developmet</title>
<meta name=”web developmet”  content=”thinking web development”>
<link rel=”stylesheet”
type=”text/css”
href=”file:///storage/emulated/0/twdfrontpage.css”>
</head>

<header>
<img src=”add pic” width=”1200″ height=“500”>
<nav>
<button>push me 1</button>
<button>push me 2</button>
<button>push me 3</button>
<button>push me 4</button>
<button>push me 5</button>
<button>push me 6</button>
</nav>
</header>

<body>

<h1>thinking web development introduction</h1>
<p>.  </p>
<p>.  </p>
<p>.  </p>

<br>

<h2>the objectives of thinking web development </h2>
<p>.  </p>
<p>.  </p>
<p>.  </p>

<footer>
<nav>
<button>push me 1</button>
<button>push me 2</button>
<button>push me 3</button>
<button>push me 4</button>
<button>push me 5</button>
<button>push me 6</button>
</nav>
img src=“add pic”width=“1200” height=“500”>

</footer>

</body>
</html>

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the code above is a rough draft of the actual code I’m using for my index page to build the website for this lesson plan.

it is a rough draft because as you will note in the header and footer there is an image along with a half a dozen buttons.

at this time before I upload the index page there is no file path for the images and there is no file path to any of the buttons.

I have set it up this way deliberately in the reason is because establishing file paths on my cell phone or in your case probably your laptop will be entirely different from the file paths for the same images and Pages once they’re in your server… For this reason I have set placeholders where the file path for images and links Shelby once it is all set up in the server.

it is good practice to always establish your index page first before any other page on your server.

after you have established your index page on your server you will want to set up a gallery page to store your images and then you will be adding new pages to your website to flesh it out.

once everything is on your server then you will establish your file paths to your link buttons and your images.

the reason I do it this way is because the file paths you use for your image and Link buttons will be entirely different from the server then they will be on your laptop or in my case on my cell phone so there is no reason to double work you just load everything up to your server and then set your file paths last.