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Instant Hacking
Learn how to program with Python

original text copyright Magnus Lie Hetland
slight modification for teaching at PDC by Mike Hammill

• Goals
• The Environment
• What Is Programming?
• Fiesta SPAM Salad
• Programs VS Recipes
• Hello, World!
• Hello and Goodbye
• Working with Ingredients
• Using Variables
• Adding Flexibility
• Getting Feedback
• Flow
• Program Blocks
• Looping
• The "For" Loop
• The "While" Loop
• Bigger Programs
• Why Abstraction Is Needed
• Example Abstraction
• Functions VS Procedures
• Example Procedure
• Side Effects
• Example Function
• Data Structures
• Lists
• Indexing
• Classes
• Example Class
• Creating Objects
• References