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Lesson plan - Python basics: functions and data structures

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+# Tuesday - Functions and data structures
+
+## Before lesson materials
+
+Mandatory:
+
+* [General introduction to functions][1]
+* [Introduction to Python built-in data structures][2]
+
+Optional:
+
+* [Hands-on Python Tutorial: Defining Functions of your Own][3]
+* [Codecademy course on Python functions][4]
+* [Codecademy course on Python lists and dictionaries][5]
+
+## Tasks
+
+### Functions
+
+* Function basics
+    * Stateless functions
+    * Side effects
+    * Recursion
+* Exercises:
+  Write a function for:
+    1. "Say hi" in different languages, defaulting to English
+    2. Calculate circumference of a circle
+    3. Calculate the first n numbers in the Fibonacci sequence
+
+### Data structures
+
+* Discuss the importance of data structures
+* Implement our very own linked list (led by instructor)
+    * Basics
+    * Append
+    * Insert
+    * Remove
+* Go over the Python built-in basic data structures
+    * List, stack, queue
+    * Set
+    * Dictionary
+* Daily project: fun with lottery numbers
+    1. Print the five most frequent numbers and how many times they have occurred
+    2. Gather all the individual numbers that were drawn
+
+If there is time left:
+
+* Graphs
+* Figure out how to build a binary tree
+
+[1]: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~germain/PPS/Topics/functions.html
+[2]: http://pymbook.readthedocs.org/en/latest/datastructure.html
+[3]: http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/functions.html
+[4]: https://www.codecademy.com/en/courses/python-beginner-c7VZg/0/1?curriculum_id=4f89dab3d788890003000096
+[5]: https://www.codecademy.com/en/courses/python-beginner-en-pwmb1/0/1?curriculum_id=4f89dab3d788890003000096