Session 1 - Preparations

• Get set up on your computer - Railsbridge is excellent, great people, great installation advice (Railsbridge Installation Guide)[http://docs.railsbridge.org/installfest/choose_your_operating_system]
• Be comfortable with the command line - Learn Command line the hard way IMHO the more comfortable you get with the command line the better off you'll be in the short and long run
• Understand how to use git 
• Complete Learn Python the Hard Way up until Lesson 20 - 

Session 1 - the Doing part

Open up the terminal on your computer.

• Don't know the terminal and command line? Go here

mkdir SudoLesson
cd SudoLesson

Now use git to clone the github repo for this workshop 

git clone https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence

• Don't know how to use git from the command line? review cloning and the basics the simple guide

cd SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence

write your first script in the python folder, name it intro_python.py

from sys import argv 
script, filename = argv

in_file = open(filename)
indata = in_file.read()

print("Here's your file %r:" % filename)

print("The sample csv is %d bytes long" % len(indata))
input(" Return to continue >")

print("Now I'm going to print out all the data - it's very long!")
input(" Return to continue >")
print(indata)
input(" Return to continue >")

print("Closing the file")
in_file.close()

Run the script, we'll be using the sample.csv which is the spreadsheet of crimes in the Oakland area in the past 90 days

python python/intro_python.py csv/sample.csv

Self-directed Learning Steps

• Make 2 or 3 variations of this script
• Redo the Learn to Code the hard way lessons
• Download other csv files and read them