Python Programming 1

The Python Programming 1 course is aimed at anyone who wants to learn Python as a first language,and developers/engineers who want to migrate to Python from another language,particularly those with little or no object-oriented knowledge.

This course aims to provide the delegate with the knowledge to be able to produce Python scripts and applications that exploit all core elements of the language including variables,expressions,selection and iteration,functions,objects,collections,strings,modules,pattern matching,exception handling,I/O,and classes.

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
• 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

Python Programming 1 Training Course Course Contents - 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

• About objects
• Attributes and the dot notation
• Data attributes
• Method attributes
• The dir function
• Magic methods and operator overloading
• Mutability
• Variables: references to objects
• Variable assignment (again)
• Pass by reference
• The id function and identity operator

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: 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

Python Programming 1 Training Course Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 11: 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 12: 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 13: 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

Session 14: DATES

• About the datetime module
• datetime object attributes
• Creating a datetime object
• Date arithmetic
• Formatting dates

Python Programming 1 Training Course Course Contents - DAY 4

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

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
• 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 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

Session 18: OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (OOP)

• About OOP
• About classes
• Creating a class with data and method attributes
• Creating an instance of a class (an object)
• Getting and setting an object's data attributes (again)
• Calling an object's methods (again)
• Controlling the way objects are created
• Composition and aggregation
• An introduction to OOP principles
• The del keyword and garbage collection

Familiarity with programming concepts is useful,this knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the Introduction to Programming course.

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• Introduction to Python Cryptography (PYPCI)
• Apache Web Server (APH)
• PHP Programming (PHP)
• PHP & MySQL for Web Development (PHPMWD)
• PHP & MariaDB for Web Development (PHPMARWD)
• Perl Programming (PERL)
• Ruby Programming (RUBYP)
• Introduction to MySQL (MYSI)
• Introduction to MariaDB (MARI)