All language subtitles for 1. Breaking The Flow

Welcome back.

We learned about our basic Python data types.

We also learned a little bit about some of the terms that we might use when talking about code.

We learned a few best practices but most importantly we learned how to perform actions on these data

types.

We saw that there's built in functions that we can run on any data type such as the print function but

we also learned that most of these data types have their own methods.

That is that dot some sort of a name and then the brackets to perform some actions on them.

Now we're still scratching the surface here but we now go into an area that gets really really exciting

because up until now what we've been doing is this Every time we write code we do something here and

then we go to the second line and do something else.

And then finally go to the third line and do something else and so on and so forth our Python interpreter

just went line by line 1 all the way to whatever line number we have on our DOT pi file and just ran

the code and it ran it really fast because machines are good at that they run code really fast but we

haven't discovered the true power of programming and specifically programming for machines.

You see the power comes when we start to incorporate the idea of maybe running multiple lines over and

over or maybe skipping a line and going from line want to line three and in this section we're going

to talk about the idea of conditions and conditional logic we're going to talk about looping and loops

where we can perform actions hundreds thousands millions of time over and over something that machines

are really really good at.

And that's when programming becomes really powerful because machines can do certain tasks a lot better

and a lot faster than humans.

So we're now going to break into a new world where instead of going from one to three everything in

order.

We're going to start to break some of that apart so that we have more control over our programs than

just going line by line.

Let's find out how to do that in the next video.