Summary
This primer is a third look at Python, and is admittedly selective in which features we investigate (for instance, we don’t use classes, as in our second primer on random psychedelic images). We do assume some familiarity with the syntax and basic concepts of the language. For a first primer on Python, see A Dash of Python. We’ll investigate some of Python’s useful built-in types, including lists, tuples, and dictionaries, and we use them to computing Fibonacci numbers and “optimal” coin change....