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Scope is a counter-intuitive property of programming, but one that is important to know.

In this

This intro addresses what is taught in this course, who this course is for and who is teaching it.

Tuples are a data type that are similar to lists, but they have a few important differences.

Return allows functions to spit out some data when they are done running, allowing the rest of the code to retrieve it.

Lists are ways to represent many points of similar data under one variable.

Functions are a awesome because they give us ways to dynamically reuse code that we write.

Comparison Operators: (==, !=, ＜, ＞, ＜=, ＞=) Logical Operators (for compound conditions): (and, or, not)

Here we install the latest version of

Modules are code that someone else has written, that they've allowed us to use. pip is a part of

This prevents our code from crashing if something goes wrong.

Create your own text files using

If statements are how we conditionally run lines of code.