Questions

• How can my programs do different things based on data values?

Objectives

• Understand "expressions" and booleans.
• Write conditional statements including if, elif, and else branches.
• Correctly evaluate expressions containing and and or.
• Understand "boolean indexing" with regard to NumPy arrays.

Lecture

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Jupyter Notebook

Please use the Jupyter notebook named "05MakingChoices.ipynb" for this lesson. If you haven't downloaded them already, you may find them here.

Key Points

• Use if condition to start a conditional statement, elif condition to provide additional tests, and else to provide a default.
• The bodies of the branches of conditional statements must be indented.
• Use == to test for equality.
• X and Y is only true if both X and Y are True.
• X or Y is true if either X or Y, or both, are True.
• Zero, the empty string, and the empty list are considered false; all other numbers, strings, and lists are considered true.
• True and False represent truth values.