Python Programming 1 Training Course

Course Contents - 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
• • Floating point accuracy
• • 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)
• • Nested conditional statements
• • 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

Python Programming 1 Training Course

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Session 6: FUNCTIONS

• • Declaration
• • Invocation
• • Default values for parameters
• • Named arguments
• • args and kwargs
• • Returning multiple values
• • None returned
• • Variable scope
• • Masking and shadowing
• • The pass keyword
• • Recursive functions

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.

Python Programming 1 Training Course

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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
• • Inbuilt modules math,random and platform
• • the dir() and help() functions
• • Creating and using modules
• • the __pycache__ and the .pyc files
• • 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

Python Programming 1 Training Course

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Session 15: EXCEPTION HANDLING

• • About exceptions and exception handling
• • Handling exceptions (try,except,else,finally)
• • Exception types
• • The exception object
• • Raising exceptions
• • Custom exception types
• • Built-in exceptions hierarchy

Session 16: 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
• • Text encoding schemes,codepoints,codespace
• • ASCII and UNICODE (UTF schemes)
• • UTF-8,binary and hexadecimal representations
• • The ord() and chr() functions
• • Binary files,bytes and bytearray
• • I/O layered abstraction.
• • About the os module
• • os module functions incl. getcwd,listdir,mkdir,chdir,remove,rmdir etc.
• • OSError numbers and the errno module

Session 17: DATABASES

• • The DB-API
• • DP-API implementations
• • Establishing a connection
• • Creating a cursor
• • Executing a query
• • Fetching results
• • Transactions
• • Inserting,updating,and deleting records