Python Foundations eLearning

Course Outline

What is Python?
Where can Python be used?
What this course offers
Python 2.x or 3.x?
Installing Python
Adding Python to the PATH
Python in Interactive Mode (terminal)
Simplistic Hello World program in Python Command Line (Python CLI)
Basic syntax rules
Saving program to a file, and executing with Python
Variable assignments
Data Types (string, integer, float)
Accessing string values
Formatting strings
Changing strings
String specific operators
Built-in string methods
Creating lists
Accessing list values
Appending to lists
Indexing, slicing, matrixes
Built-in functions and methods
Creating tuples
Accessing tuple values
Updating tuples
Removing elements
Tuple operations
Built-in methods
Assigning a number to a variable
Type conversion
Random numbers and their functions
Mathematical functions
Math based constants
Arithmetic operators
Relational comparison
Assignment operators
Logical operators
Bitwise operators
Membership operators
Identity operators
Single if statements
Nested if statements
For loops
While loops
Nesting loops
Control statements
Accessing dictionary values
Changing dictionary elements
Removing dictionary elements
Key properties
Built-in functions and methods
The time module
The calendar module
TimeTuple
Getting current time
Getting formatted time
Defining a function
Calling a function
Arguments: reference vs value
Keyword arguments
Default arguments
Anonymous functions
Return keyword
Variable scopes (Global/Local)
Importing a module
Module location
Print to the screen
Gathering keyboard input
Reading and writing files
Standard exceptions
Raising an exception
Catching & handling exceptions
Defining custom exceptions
Syntax
OOP terminology
Creating classes
Instance objects
Attribute accessors
Built-ins
Garbage collection
Inheritance
Overrides & overloads
Matching
Searching
Difference in matching vs searching
Modifiers
Greedy/Non-greedy repetition
Grouping, backreferences, alternatives, anchors
Database types (SQL/NoSQL)
Connecting to a DB
Running DB queries
Available Python DB modules
Sockets
Client socket methods
Server socket methods
Build a server (code available)
Build a client (code available)
What is threading?
Starting a new thread
Python threading module
Synchronizing threads
Multithreaded priority queue
Processing XML data
make_parse method
parse method
parseString method
Parsing XML with SAX APIs
Parsing XML with DOM APIs
GUI concepts
Popular GUI libraries and toolkits
tkInter
Build a GUI (code available)
Python header files
Python.h header file
The C functions
Method mapping table
Initialize function
Building, installing, importing
Passing function parameters
PyArg_ParseTuple function
Returning values
Py_BuildValue function
Using what we’ve learned, we are going to build a functional stop watch application.