Lesson 1: Python Review

• Lists
• Dictionaries
• Tuples
• Conditionals (if, elif, else)
• Loops (for and when)
• Functions
• Variable Scope – Review
• Converting boiler plate code to functional code
• Writing Functions (reusable code)
• Using pip
• Useful 3rd party modules
• Publishing a module
• Documenting modules

Lesson 2: OS Interfacing

• Operating System interfacing with OS module
• OS module – listdir(), getcwd(), mkdir()
• Common sys Module Attributes & Methods
• Working With the os Module & Files/Directories
• Walking File Trees with os.walk()
• File, Path and Directory Examples
• Working with os.path
• os & os.path Module Examples
• Environmental Variables
• Running Shell Commands
• Compressing and archiving (gzip, tar, zip)

Lesson 3: Web and RESTful APIs

• REST
• REST APIS and HTTP CRUD
• REST and OpenStack
• URI analysis and formation
• Wireshark capturing
• cURL
• Etcd keystore
• Creating a Python client to interact with API endpoints
• API dev keys
• SSH and Python
• Secure password retrieval
• Tokens and APIs

Lesson 4: Python Protocol Clients

• Scripting the browser
• Scripting with HTTP
• Creating an HTTP Client & Server
• Python and SSH
• Building an SFTP Client & Server
• Python and SFTP limitations
• Paramiko for SSH
• Netmiko and Major Network Vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Arista)

Lesson 5: JSON, YAML, XML, CSV and Excel

• JSON RFC 7159
• JSON Formatting
• YAML intro
• YAML lists
• YAML dictionaries
• YAML line spanning
• Reading YAML is easy
• XML
• CSV
• Import json
• Import yaml
• Decoding json and yaml to use
• Using python to decode data structures like YAML, XML, CSV, and JSON
• Reading from Excel
• Writing to Excel

Lesson 6: Generating and Sending Emails

• Overview of email modules
• Creating simple emails
• Interfacing with your email account

Lesson 7: Dates and Times

• Python and Cron
• Import time and time.time()
• Suspending with sleep()
• Dealing with time
• Time formatting
• Time tuples
• Creating Calendars

Lesson 8: Python Regular Expression (Regex)

• Metacharacter review
• Re modules
• search() and match()
• findall()
• Compiling regex search patterns
• Creating highly efficient searches
• Sorting data sets
• Complex sorts
• sort() vs sorted()
• Sorting with functions
• Applying Regex to file searches
• Applying Regex to API results

Lesson 9: Code Review

• Best practice
• Using pylint
• Conventions
• Underscore
• Double underscore
• Monkey Patching

Lesson 10: Web API Design with Flask

• Flask Overview
• Decorators
• Building APIs with Python and Flask
• APIs returning Jinja2 templating
• Returning a ‘cookie’
• Building Sessions
• Redirecting from URIs
• Build an API to accept a file upload

Lesson 11: SQLlite

• Overview
• Connecting to Python
• Read / Write operations
• Other useful instructions
• Connecting APIs and SQLite
• Reading and Writing to Databases with APIs

Lesson 12: Processes and Threads

• Threading
• Context change
• Deadlock errors
• Thread starvation
• Racing conditions and racing specifics
• Working with Locks

Lab 1 – Using vim
Lab 2 – Making a Github account
Lab 3 – Getting dir(obj) help() and pydoc
Lab 4 – Lists
Lab 5 – Dictionaries
Lab 6 – Python Data to JSON file
Lab 7 – Python Data to YAML file
Lab 8 – import time
Lab 9 – List and Dict Modeling
Lab 10 – try and except
Lab 11 – Construct a SimpleHTTPServer and HTTP Client
Lab 12 – RESTful Open APIs
Lab 13 – APIs and JSON Decode
Lab 14 – requests library
Lab 15 – APIs and Dev Keys
Lab 16 – RESTful APIs and Dev Keys
Lab 17 – getpass – Secure Password Retrieval
Lab 18 – Paramiko SFTP with UN and PW
Lab 19 – Paramiko SSH with RSA
Lab 20 – Scripting Commands over SSH
Lab 21 – Argument Parsing
Lab 22 – Making Excel Sheets
Lab 23 – Reading Excel Sheets
Lab 24 – Timestamping Data
Lab 25 – API Tokens and Subjects
Lab 26 – RegEx to Check IP Address
Lab 27 – Use RegEx to Search Text
Lab 28 – Search and Replace Data
Lab 29 – Compiling Search Objects
Lab 30 – Testing of a Match Exists
Lab 31 – Getting sorted()
Lab 32 – Sort Stability and Complex Sorts
Lab 33 – CSV data
Lab 34 – Unpacking Arguments
Lab 35 – XML Parsing with ElementTree
Lab 36 – Automating SMTP and Extended SMTP (Email)
Lab 37 – Archive with zipfile
Lab 38 – Building APIs with Python
Lab 39 – Flask APIs and Jinja2
Lab 40 – Flask APIs and Cookies
Lab 41 – Flask Sessions
Lab 42 – Flask Redirection and Errors
Lab 43 – Flask Uploading Files
Lab 44 – Connecting an API to a Database
Lab 45 – Learning sqlite3
Lab 46 – Tracking API Data with sqlite3
Lab 47 – Tracking Inventory with sqlite
Lab 48 – Working with Threads