Course Outline:
Day 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: GETTING STARTED
- About Python
- Python versions
- Python documentation
- Python runtimes
- Installing Python
- The REPL shell
- Python editors
Session 2: PYTHON SCRIPTS & SYNTAX
- Script naming
- Comments
- Docstring
- Statements
- The backslash
- Code blocks
- Whitespace
- Console IO (to enable the writing of simple programs)
- A first Python program
- Script execution
Session 3: VARIABLES & DATA TYPES
- Literals
- Identifiers
- Assignment
- Numbers (bool, int, float, complex)
- Binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers
- Collections (str, list, tuple, set, dict)
- None
- Implicit and explicit type conversion (casting)
- The type function
Session 4: OPERATORS & EXPRESSIONS
- Arithmetic Operators
- Assignment Operators
- Comparison Operators
- Logical Operators
- Membership Operators
- Bitwise Operators
- Identity Operators
Session 5: CONDITIONS & LOOPS
- Conditional statements (if, elif, else)
- Short hand if/if else
- Python's alternative to the ternary operator
- Iterative statements (while, for, else)
- The range function
- Iterating over a list
- Break
- Continue
- Nested conditional/iterative statements
Day 2
Session 6: FUNCTIONS
- Declaration
- Invocation
- Default values for parameters
- Named arguments
- args and kwargs
- Returning multiple values
- Nested functions
- Functions as data
- Introduction to lambda expressions
- Variable scope
- The pass keyword
Session 7: OBJECTS AND CLASSES
- About objects
- Attributes and the dot notation
- The dir function
- Dunder attributes
- Mutability
- The id function
- Pass by reference
- Introduction to Classes
- Class Declaration and Instantiation
- Data attributes
- Methods
- Composition
Session 8: LISTS
- About lists
- List syntax including slicing
- Getting and setting list elements
- Iterating over a list
- Checking for the presence of a value
- The len function
- List methods incl. append, insert, remove, pop, clear, copy, sort, reverse etc.
- The del keyword
- Appending to and combining lists
- List comprehension
Session 9: TUPLES
- About tuples
- Tuple syntax
- Getting tuple elements including unpacking
- Iterating over a tuple
- Checking for the presence of a value
- The len function
- Appending to and combining tuples
Session 10: SETS
- About Sets
- Dictionary syntax
- Creating, adding and removing set elements
- Iterating over a set
- Membership Testing
- Sorting
- Copying
- Set methods incl. union, intersection, difference, symmetric_difference etc.
Day 3
Session 11: DICTIONARIES
- About dictionaries
- Dictionary syntax
- Getting and setting dictionary elements
- Iterating over a dictionary (keys, values, and items)
- Checking for the presence of a key
- The len function
- Dictionary methods incl. keys, values, items, get, pop, popitem, clear etc.
- The del keyword
- Dictionary comprehension
Session 12: STRINGS
- About strings
- String syntax including slicing
- Escape characters
- Triple-quoted strings
- Concatenation
- Placeholders
- The format method
- Other methods e.g. endswith, find, join, lower, replace, split, startswith, strip, upper etc.
- A string as a list of bytes
Session 13: MODULES & PACKAGES
- About modules
- The module search path
- Importing modules
- Namespaces
- Importing module objects
- The import wildcard
- Aliases
- Importing within a function
- Executable modules
- Reloading a module
- About packages
- Importing packaged modules
- Importing packaged module objects
- Package initialisation
- Subpackages
- Referencing objects in sibling packages
- The Standard Library
- Installing modules and packages using pip
Session 14: PATTERN MATCHING
- About regular expressions
- Regular expression special characters
- Raw strings
- About the re module
- re module functions incl. match, search, findall, full match, split, sub
Day 4
Session 15: DATES
- About the datetime module
- datetime object attributes
- Creating a datetime object
- Date arithmetic
- Formatting dates
Session 16: EXCEPTION HANDLING
- About exceptions and exception handling
- Handling exceptions (try, except, else, finally)
- Exception types
- The exception object
- Raising exceptions
- Custom exception types
Session 17: FILES & THE FILESYSTEM
- The open function
- Methods for seeking (seekable, seek)
- Methods for reading from a file (readable, read, readline, readlines)
- Iterating over a file
- Methods for writing to a file (writable, write, writelines)
- Introduction to context managers
- File parsing for files of type CSV, XML, JSON, YAML
- About the os module
- os module functions incl. getcwd, listdir, mkdir, chdir, remove, rmdir etc.
- Session 18: DATABASES
- The DB-API
- DP-API implementations
- Establishing a connection
- Creating a cursor
- Executing a query
- Fetching results
- Transactions
- Inserting, updating, and deleting records
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