Python Foundations

Working within an engaging, hands-on learning environment, and guided by an expert instructor, students will learn to write effective Python code using the latest features and techniques, including:

• Create working Python scripts following best practices
• Explore simple and complex Python data types and use them appropriately
• Use built-in functions and create custom functions with parameters and return types
• Understand Pythonic features such as comprehensions and iterators
• Work with dates, times, and calendars
• Read and write files with both text and binary data
• Gain familiarity with the standard library and its work-saving modules
• Understand objects in Python and how to create classes

• DAY 1: GETTING STARTED WITH PYTHON PROGRAMMING
  • Python Variables and Data types
  • Python intro with a quick overview on the syntax, IDEs
  • Recall how to declare/initialize variables of different data types in Python - Numeric, String, Bool, Sequence
  • Naming Conventions & Rules
  • Functions and purpose of main()
  • Arguments
  • Command line parameters
  • White spacing basic rules
  • Types as Objects
  • Type conversion
  • Mutable vs Immutable Objects
  • Working with Strings in Python
  • String Literal - Escape Sequences
  • Formatting String Output
  • Printing and formatting strings
  • Scripting with input()
  • About raw_input()
  • Working with Dates and times
  • Working with dates and times
  • Translating timestamps
  • Parsing dates from text
  • Formatting dates
  • Calendar data
  • Working with Conditional Statements and Loops
  • If else statements
  • If elif
  • Nested if statement
  • While usage
  • Count and Event controlled loop
  • Continue and Break
  • For iteration examples
  • Objects
  • Overview of objects
  • Creating objects and defining objects
  • Working with objects
  • Basic error handling
  • Different errors
  • Handling errors
  • Best practices
• DAY 2: COMPLEX DATA TYPES IN PYTHON
  • Lists & Tuples
  • Lists
  • Mixed Lists
  • Common List Methods
  • Other List Operations – CRUD operations
  • Working with Tuples
  • Immutable Tuples
  • Indexing and Slicing
  • Shallow and deep copies of List and tuples
  • Lists vs Tuples
  • Dictionaries and Sets
  • An overview and construction of dictionaries
  • Keys and Values
  • Dictionary Methods
  • About sets
  • Creating sets
  • Working with sets
  • Dictionaries vs Lists vs Tuples vs Sets
  • Understanding Iterators
  • The range() function
  • Taking the range() of len()
  • Iterative Objects
  • The iter() Function
  • Iterating through a sequence
  • Nested sequences
  • Sequence functions, keywords, and operators
  • Looping across data sets
  • Iterating through lists
  • Looping across lists of lists
  • Looping with dictionaries
  • Looping across lists of dictionaries
  • Sorting
  • The sorted() function
  • Alternate keys
  • Sorting collections
  • Using operator.itemgetter()
  • Reverse sorting
  • Basic File operations in Python
  • Opening files
  • Read data from files
  • Write data to files
  • Reading and writing raw (binary) data
• DAY 3: PYTHON MODULAR PROGRAMMING
  • Python Functions
  • Defining functions
  • Parameters
  • Returning values
  • Nested Functions
  • Variable Masking
  • Preventing Variable Modifications
  • Argument Matching Methods
  • Basic List Comprehensions
  • Variable scope - local, global, nested
  • Modules & Packages
  • Module Basics
  • Packages
  • Pip and pip3
  • Virtual environments
  • Defined modules
  • Import modules
  • From import statements
  • Some useful modules to know
  • Functions and module aliases
  • The standard library
  • The sys module
  • Launching external programs
  • Math functions
  • Random numbers
  • Reading CSV data
  • Classes in Python
  • About OOP
  • Defining a class
  • Constructor
  • Classes instantiation
  • Class variables and methods
  • Instance variables
  • Properties – getters and setters
  • Subclasses (Inheritance)
  • Multiple Inheritance
  • Static methods

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