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Booleans, Conditionals, and Control Flow

In the prep work for this class, the students learned:

  1. The boolean data type and boolean expressions
  2. Logical operators (>, <, etc.) and ==
  3. Logical and and or
  4. if / elif / else statements
  5. The difference between for and while loops and when to use either loop

Announcements

  1. Check with your program manager for any announcements!

Large Group Time (Instructor)

Lesson Topics That Require Careful Attention

  1. Q & A from the prep work and/or exercises.
    1. Check to see if there are any lingering questions for the prep work for the course on the Data and Variables chapter.
    2. Recommend walking through the exercises for booleans and conditionals and loops to
  2. Review the meaning of the truth tables for logical and and logical or.
  3. Clarify with live coding examples:
    1. The difference between an if / else if block and two successive if blocks
    2. Nested conditionals
  4. There is no studio for today! Today is an open work day to help students catch up since there is so much coding content in the first four days to prepare for pandas.

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