Intro to Computer Science Module 03 - Intro to Python

While Computer Science isn't technically about programming, knowing how to program allows you to do the job better, and opens you up to additional opportunities. In this module we look at how do you start to get input from the user, and how to send output to the user's screen.
As with the other modules, we will be using Python, a good general purpose language which is currently being used in many different industries for different purposes.
We will cover the input/output (IO) features in Python, as well as how to store information in variables, convert between data types, and do some basic math functions within our program.
During the course of this module, we will look at some common problems, and how to solve those problems.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Introduction
04:21 - Printing to the Console
07:45 - Our First (Possible) Syntax Error
09:07 - Errors with Spacing in Python
11:06 - Potential Error: Improper Quotes
14:24 - Clearing a Terminal Window on VSC
14:41 - Getting Info from a User via the Console
19:24 - Printing more than one thing at a time
22:29 - Numbers in Python
30:15 - Basic Math in Python
33:58 - Converting a String into an Int
36:06 - Converting a String into a Float
45:17 - Helpful Hints
45:38 - Commenting your code
48:43 - Splitting code onto multiple lines
50:34 - Line Wrapping in VSC
51:36 - Changing the Separator In a Print Function
53:39 - Copying a whole line of code in VSC
54:03 - Changing the End of a Print Function
55:30 - Escaped characters
57:48 - Formatting Numbers
59:32 - Creating a Constant in Python