Plan for First Class

Plan for First Class (Nice & easy for first day)

• Discuss syllabus

• Know how to make a PB&J sandwich??

• Discuss Python
• What is it?
• About Python
• Supported by ESRI
• Free
• Platform Independent
• Easy
• Interpreted, not compiled
• Versions
• Latest version is: 3.3
• ArcGIS is usually packaged with an earlier version
• Editors
• IDLE (freely included with all versions of Python)
• Requirements
• Development environments

• Discuss Example Script
• View
• Determine your age


• In-Class Assignments
• Edit the script to also print the % of your age lived if your life expectancy is 95 years old.
• Write an entirely new script that will provide the year born based on age.


• New Python Topics Today:
• Variables
• Numeric types
• Integer
• whole integers
• 32 bits of precision
• Long
• whole integers
• unlimited precision
• Float
• decimals
• precision based on hardware
• Numeric operations
• +, -, /, *
• Printing to the screen
• Executing programs