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.. Objectives
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.. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to 
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.. 1. Write blocks of code in python.
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.. #. Use for loop.
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.. #. Use ``range()`` function.
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.. #. Write blocks in python interpreter
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.. #. Write blocks in ipython interpreter.
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.. Prerequisites
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..   1. should have ``ipython`` and ``pylab`` installed. 
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..   #. getting started with ``ipython``.
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..   #. getting started with lists.
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.. Author              : Anoop Jacob Thomas <anoop@fossee.in>
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   Internal Reviewer   : Nishanth
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   Internal Reviewer(2): Amit
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   External Reviewer   :
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   Language Reviewer   : Bhanukiran
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   Checklist OK?       : <10-11-2010, Anand, OK> [2010-10-05]
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Getting started with for loop
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{{{ show welcome slide }}}
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Hello and welcome to the tutorial `Getting started with ``for`` loop`. 
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{{{ switch to next slide, outline slide }}}
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In this tutorial we will learn about ``for`` loops in python, and also
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learn how to write blocks of code in Python.
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.. #[Nishanth]: Instead of saying basics of indenting code,
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                say How to define code blocks in Python
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{{{ switch to next slide, about whitespaces }}}
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In Python whitespace is significant, and the blocks are visually
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separated.
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.. #[nishanth]: Simply tell how blocks are defined in python.
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                The details like braces are not used and its
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                advantages like neat code can be told after completely
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                explaining the indentation
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.. #[Amit]: Do you want to do that here. May be its better to talk about 
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   this after some initiation into the idea of blocks. 
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The best practice is to indent the code using four spaces.
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.. #[Nishanth]: Even this detail may be skipped. Simply say use 4 spaces
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                for indentation. Do that while typing so that they can
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                actually see what is being typed.
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As you can see in the slide, ``Block B`` is an inner block and it is
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indented using 4 spaces, and after ``Block B`` the next statement in
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``Block A`` starts from the same indentation level of other ``Block
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A`` statements.
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Now let us move straight into ``for`` loop.
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{{{ switch to next slide, problem statement of exercise 1 }}}
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Write a for loop which iterates through a list of numbers and find the
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square root of each number.
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    numbers are 1369, 7225, 3364, 7056, 5625, 729, 7056, 576, 2916
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.. #[nishanth]: making new list with square roots induces extra complication
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                like appending which has no use case here
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.. #[Nishanth]: The problem focuses more on square root and creation
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                of list. The problem must be simple and focusing on 
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                nothing more but the indentation and for loop.
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                May be change the problem to print squares than to
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                print square roots.
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For the problem, first we need to create a ``list`` of numbers and
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then iterate over the list and find the square root of each element in
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it. And let us create a script, rather than typing it out in the
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interpreter itself. Create a script called list_roots.py and type the
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following.
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{{{ open the text editor and paste the following code there }}}
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    numbers = [1369, 7225, 3364, 7056, 5625, 729, 7056, 576, 2916]
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    for each in numbers:
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        print "Square root of", each, "is", sqrt(each)
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    print "This is not in for loop!"
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..  numbers = [1, 12, 3, 4, 21, 17]
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    for each in numbers:
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        print each, each * each
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.. #[nishanth]: I don't see a use case to append the sq_root to
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                square_roots. It is only complicating stuff.
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                Simply iterate and print.
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{{{ switch to next slide, save and run script }}}
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{{{ save the script }}}
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Now save the script, and run it from your IPython interpreter. I
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assume that you have started your IPython interpreter using ``-pylab``
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option.
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Run the script as,
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    %run -i list_roots.py
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.. #[Nishanth]: you don't have to use the -i option here
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{{{ run the script }}}
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So that was easy! All what we did was iterate over the list element by
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element and then use the element for calculation. Note that here we
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used two variables. One the variable ``numbers``, which is a list,
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another one ``each``, which is the element of list under consideration
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in each cycle of the ``for`` loop. The variable names can be chosen by
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you.
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                are relevant for people who have programmed in C or
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                other languages earlier. But for a newbie it is more
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                of confusing extra info. That part may be skipped.
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                Simply go ahead and focus on the syntax of for loop.
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                And how the variable name is used inside the for loop.
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                If you modify the question to only print, the extra 
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                variable sq_root can also be avoided. let it be more
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                about "each", "numbers" and "for". no other new names.
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{{{ show the script which was created }}}
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Note that the lines after ``for`` statement, is indented using four
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spaces.
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{{{ highlight the line after for statement }}}
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It means that line is part of the for loop. And it is a block of code,
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although it is only a single statement in the block. And the fourth
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line or the immediate line after the ``for`` block is not indented,
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{{{ highlight the fourth line - the line just after for loop }}}
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it means that it is not part of the ``for`` loop and the lines after
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that doesn't fall in the scope of the ``for`` loop. Thus each block is
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{{{ switch to the slide which shows the problem statement of the first
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Now a question for you to try, from the given numbers make a list of
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perfect squares and a list of those which are not. The numbers are,
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    7225, 3268, 3364, 2966, 7056, 5625, 729, 5547, 7056, 576, 2916
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solved exercise}}}
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Now let us try a simple one, to print the square root of numbers in
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So let us start with making a list. Type the following
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    numbers = [1369, 7225, 3364, 7056, 5625, 729, 7056, 576, 2916]
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    for each in numbers:
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and now you will notice that, as soon as you press the return key
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after for statement, the prompt changes to four dots and the cursor is
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dots. Please note that IPython automatically indents the block. The
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{{{ switch to next slide, Indentation in ``ipython`` (cont'd) }}}
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.. #[Nishanth]: Tell that IPython does auto indentation.
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        print "Square root of", each,
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	print "is", sqrt(each)
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Now we have finished the statements in the block, and still the
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without entering anything else. It printed the square root of each
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number in the list, and that is executed in a ``for`` loop.
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Now, let us find the cube of all the numbers from one to ten. But this
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time let us try it in the vanilla version of Python interpreter.
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    for i in range(1,11):
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and press enter once, and we will see that this time it shows four
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dots, but the cursor is close to the dots, so we have to indent the
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block. The vanilla version of Python interpreter does not indent the
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code automatically. So enter four spaces there and then type the
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        print i, "cube is", i**3
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Now when we hit enter, we still see the four dots, to get out of the
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block, hit enter once again
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.. #[Nishanth]: Here also the overhead on print can be reduced.
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                Think of a simple print statement. This statement
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                will be confusing for a newbie.
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                We can focus more on indentation in python.
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                define a list of numbers and iterate on it.
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                Then say this list can also be generated using
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                the range function and hence introduce range.
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interpreter and IPython interpreter to specify blocks. But while we
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``range()`` function. ``range()`` is an inbuilt function in Python
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which can be used to generate a ``list`` of integers from a starting
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specify will not be included in the ``list``.
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                May be give an exercise with negative numbers as arguments
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solved exercises }}}
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Now, let us print all the odd numbers from 1 to 50. Pause here and try
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to solve the problem yourself.
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Let us do it in our IPython interpreter for ease of use.
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The problem can be solved by just using the ``range()`` function.
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It can be solved as,
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    print range(1,51,2)
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This time we passed three parameters to ``range()`` function unlike
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the previous case where we passed only two parameters. The first two
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parameters are the same in both the cases. The first parameter is the
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starting number of the sequence and the second parameter is the end of
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the range. Note that the sequence doesn't include the ending
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number. The third parameter is for stepping through the sequence. Here
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we gave two which means we are skipping every alternate element.
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Thus we come to the end of this tutorial. We learned about blocks in
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Python, indentation, blocks in IPython, for loop, iterating over a
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list and then the ``range()`` function.
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.. #[Amit]: There does seem to too much overhead of details. Should
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            the first example be done using script is it necessary. 
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	    Do add some things in evolutionary manner. Like introducing 
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	    range as a list and doing a very very simple for loop.Like
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	    iterating over [1,2,3] .Before getting into a problem.
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	    And club details about problem in one paragraph and syntactic details
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	    in other.
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{{{ switch to next slide, thank you slide }}}
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Thank you!