Python Basics

1. Introduction to Python

• Installing Python 3.x
• Preparing to write Python
• Preparing to write a Python file (*.py) - Text Editors
• Executing a Python file
• Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
• Python Statements and Control Flow
• Python Interpreter
• Overview of the Standard Library

2. Version Controlling Code with Git

• Overview of Git
• Git commands
• Set up a GitHub account
• GitHub essentials
• README course requirements
• How to Set up a repo
• Issue a Pull request
• How to use “Issues” for peer review

3. Basics of Programming

• Functions and purpose of main()
• Objects
• Methods
• Built in Functions
• Arguments
• Controlling standard out
• White spacing basic rules
• String Literal Escape Sequences
• Python Variables
• Naming Conventions & Rules
• Types as Objects
• Sequence Types
• List Iteration
• List Enumeration
• Sequence Assignments
• Mutable vs Immutable Objects
• Assignment Shorthand

4. Python Basic Variables and Data Types

• Numeric Types
• Operators and Precedence / Arithmetic Expressions
• Integers
• Floating points

5. String Types

• Generating Strings in Python
• Common String Methods
• Formatting String Output
• Booleans
• Printing and formatting strings
• Scripting with input()
• About raw_input()

6. Lists & Dictionaries & Tuples

• Lists
• Mixed Lists
• Common List Methods
• Other List Operations
• An overview on and construction of dictionaries
• Keys and Values
• Dictionary Methods
• Tuples
• Python Time Tuples
• Dictionaries vs Lists vs Tuples
• Translating JSON to Pythonic data

7. If, elif, else

• Relational Operators
• Logical operators
• Comparison Operations
• “simple” if Statement
• If else statements
• If elif
• Nested if statement

8. Looping with “while”

• While usage
• Count controlled loop
• Event controlled loop
• Continue
• Break

9. Looping with “for”

• The for Loop
• For iteration examples
• Looping across data sets
• Looping across lists of lists
• Looping across lists of dictionaries

10. Understanding Iterators

• The range() Function
• Taking the range() of len()
• Iterable Objects
• The iter() Function
• Looping with dictionaries
• Looping with lists

11. Getting Data In and Out of Python

• Opening Files
• Working with Files
• Read data from files
• Controlling Output Location
• Intro to working with APIs
• What is a “REST”ful API?
• APIs and JSON

12. Creating Python Functions

• Function Basics
• Defining Functions
• Function Polymorphism
• Argument Defaults
• Lambdas
• What is if __name__ == “__main__”
• Local Variables
• Variable Masking
• Preventing Variable Modifications
• Argument Matching Methods
• Basic List Comprehensions

13. Modules & Packages

• Pip and pip3
• Module Basics
• Packages
• Virtual environments
• Defined modules
• Import modules
• From import statements
• Some useful modules to know
• RESTful APIs and requests
• Dataframes with pandas
• Graphing with matplotlib

14. Python Scope

• Naming conventions
• Local scope
• Global scope
• Nested scope

15. Object Oriented Python

• About OOP
• The Class Statements
• Defining a class
• Class Inheritance
• Classes as Objects
• Using Dictionaries
• Understanding self
• Class fields and constructors
• Data structures
• Subclasses (Inheritance)
• Multiple Inheritance
• Static methods

16. (Optional) Regular Expression

• Import re library
• Writing regular expression
• Searching for data in files
• Using Regular Expression to search data sets
• Searching for data in Wireshark Traces (Python and *.pcaps)

• Lab 1. Welcome to Alta3 Research Labs
• Lab 2. Using vim
• Lab 3. Python IDEs
• Lab 4. git and GitHub
• Lab 5. Install Python
• Lab 6. Shebang
• Lab 7. Print
• Lab 8. Getting user input()
• Lab 9. Working with Lists
• Lab 10. List Objects and Methods
• Lab 11. Lists of Lists
• Lab 12. Python Dictionaries
• Lab 13. Getting dir(obj) help() and pydoc
• Lab 14. String Methods
• Lab 15. Copying Files and Folders
• Lab 16. Moving and Renaming Files and Folders
• Lab 17. Testing with if
• Lab 18. IPv4 Testing with if
• Lab 19. Writing your own if-logic script
• Lab 20. Using while, if, elif, else
• Lab 21. Troubleshooting while, if, elif, else
• Lab 22. Starting to Learn Loops
• Lab 23. Looping with for
• Lab 24. for loops and range()
• Lab 25. Migrating 2.x to 3.x py
• Lab 26. Parsing Log Files
• Lab 27. Write to Files
• Lab 28. Read from Files
• Lab 29. Archive with zipfile
• Lab 30. Creating Functions
• Lab 31. pip and import
• Lab 32. Exploring Network Interfaces
• Lab 33. Defining Functions
• Lab 34. Scripting Commands with Python
• Lab 35. Producing Graphs and Charts
• Lab 36. Walking the Directory Tree
• Lab 37. Excel and Intro to Pandas
• Lab 38. RESTful APIs and JSON
• Lab 39. Searching with Regular Expressions
• Lab 40. Use RegEx to Search Text
• Lab 41. Best Practice and pylint
• Lab 42. Testing with pytest
• Lab 43. Packaging Python Projects
• Lab 44. Running Python Scripts with Crontab
• Lab 45. Creating objects in Python from "Scratch"
• Lab 46. Class Inheritance
• Lab 47. Using Classes
• Lab 48. Argument Parsing
• Lab 49. Unpacking Arguments
• Lab 50. Automating SMTP and Extended SMTP
• Lab 51. XML Parsing with ElementTree
• Lab 52. Timestamping - import time datetime
• Glossary