Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Reading and writing files in Python
Lecture: Max Q
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Before we dive into this chapter I want to just say a few words about your progress in this course.
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If you've made it this far you've been doing really well. That last chapter is suspect for many of you was pretty
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challenging, we used a lot of complex programming ideas some interesting data structures, we saw some challenging problems in non-obvious ways.
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Then you get to the practice exercise and you're building Connect 4 from scratch. So that was probably a lot of work if you're new to programming.
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And if you're feeling like this course is getting harder and harder, you're in luck because you just passed Max Q. What the heck is Max Q?
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In spaceflight and all sorts of flying things actually it's the point of maximum dynamic pressure on a spaceship
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or airplane or whatever it is you're talking about. What does this have to do with you? Well for spaceships they have to push super hard to get
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going and they go harder and harder and the faster they go the harder it gets for them to go faster and actually
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there's this point where they have to turn down the engine or it could damage the spaceship. But once you get through this point, this may be like
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1000 kilometers an hour, then the spaceship goes faster and faster and faster like 20 times faster up to tens
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of thousands of kilometers per hour and yet all those steps are easier and easier because the pressure higher
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in the atmosphere, speed, et cetera put together is actually less so I feel like that last chapter that was Max Q
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that was one of the hardest thing, all of the things coming together and now we're going to have a lot of fun
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putting some file IO and cool features into our game and working with some external libraries and what not
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so hopefully you can feel as we go through this chapter and the next that this is getting more easy and things
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are just starting to flow better for you. I hope that's the case and yeah this is one of my ways
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of viewing the world this Max Q theory of working through whatever it is, not just spaceflight but even studying
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new topics like Python and programming.