Nick Tallant's TA Sessions

• When & Where?
  • Mondays at 4:30 in Harris 224
• Operating System
  • Fedora 27
  • UChicago VM (Ubuntu)
• Text Editor
  • vim
  • atom
• GitHub

If you have trouble using this repo, review this GitHub tutorial on clone, fetch, merge, and pull.

1 - Shell Scripting

This lab was meant to familiarize students with navigating the terminal and using shell commands. Things to remember:

• The important ones: cd, ls, mkdir, rm, cp, mv
• Some useful ones: wc, grep, curl
• An example of Regular Expressions
• Workflow with a text editor and interpreter/Shell

2 - Python Basics

This lab covers:

• Doc Strings
• Working with functions
• Returning multiple values with functions
• Returning no values with functions
• Global variables
• A first look at some data structures
• Using iPython
  • Specifically autoreload

Code snippets:

my_variable = input('Text will show up here')

3 - Data Structures

A brief review on data structures, including:

• pointers
• iterating
• indexing
• lists
• dictionaries
  • keys, values, items
• tuples
• sets

Example output of a row for read_salaries():

Row from csv :

"AARON, JEFFERY M",SERGEANT,POLICE,F,Salary,,$101442.00,

Row in output:

['AARON', 'JEFFERY', 'SERGEANT', 'POLICE', 'F', 'Salary', '', 101442.0, '']

4 - Putting it Together

See Media.ipynb for objectives!