###Some things we use Python for
- Scraping nightly lottery results
- Monitoring reportable events at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station
- Scraping inmate records at the Douglas County Jail and state pen
- Doing most of the things on Dataomaha.com
- Powering our Twitterbots (e.g.)
- Processing data
###Getting started
- Download Python
- Running scripts from the Python interpreter vs. executing a python file
- Data types! Numbers, strings, booleans, lists, tuples, dictionaries and more
- Supplementing the standard library with modules
###Identify a project
- I want to scrape data from a website
- I want to simplify some rote task
- I want to get an email alert when X happens
###Links