Python. Basics of the programming language

Prerequisites

The course has no pre-requisites. Some basic computer knowledge is advantageous. Prior programming skills are not required at all.

Target Audience

Beginner Python developers, and developers with experience in other languages looking to start programming in Python.

Course Outline

1. Introduction

• Basic syntax
• Multiple paradigms
• Compiler and interpreter Python
• 2 vs 3 Install Python

2. Python interpreter

• Interactive usage
• Builtin help, pydoc
• Use as a calculator
• Passing arguments
  Run scripts from file

3. Constants and data types

• Numbers
• Strings
• Builtin functions
• Type cast
• Operators

4. Variables and scopes

• Dynamic types

5. Data structures

• Lists
• Dictionaries
• Sets
• Tuples
• Operations on data structures

6. Conditional operators

• if .. then .. else
• for
• while

7. Functions

• Return values
• Default arguments
• Named arguments
• Arbitrary argument list lambda
• Documentation strings

8. Modules and packages

• Why do we need modules
• Namespace and scope
• Import module
• Run as a script
• Packages
• Intra-package references

9. Classes

• Basics of Object Oriented Programming
• Class definition syntax
• Class methods
• Class variables
• Inheritance
• Private variables
• Exceptions. Custom exceptions
• Iterators and generators
• Cleanup actions

10. Using OS

• Parse command-line arguments
• Modules os sys shutil glob
• Modules datetime timeit

11. Text processing

• Input and output of formatted text
• Regular expressions

12 Work with files

• File-object and its methods
• Serialization
• Data compression

13 Testing and quality control

• Codestyle
• Unit-testing
• Debugging
• Profilingtext