‫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 one, all the way to whatever line number we have on our
‫Dot Pi file and just ran the code.
‫And it ran 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 one 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 and 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 1 to 3, 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.