55284 Introduction to Python

Course Details

• Module 1: Python Basics
• Getting Familiar with the Terminal
• Running Python, Running a Python File
• Literals, Variables
• Constants and Deleting Variables
• Writing a Python Module, print() Function
• Collecting User Input, Reading from and Writing to Files
• Exercise: Working with Files
• Lab 1: Click here to enter text.
• Exercise: Hello, world!
• Exercise: Exploring Types
• Exercise: A Simple Python Script
• Exercise: Hello, You!, Exercise: Working with Files
• Module 2: Functions and Modules
• Defining Functions, Variable Scope
• Global Variables, Function Parameters
• Returning Values, Importing Modules
• Methods vs. Functions
• Lab 1: Exercises in this lesson
• Exercise: A Function with Parameters
• Exercise: Parameters with Default Values
• Module 3: Math
• Python includes some built-in math functions and some additional built-in libraries that provide extended math (and related) functionality. In this lesson, we’ll cover the built-in functions
• Arithmetic Operators, Assignment Operators
• Precedence of Operations, Built-in Math Functions
• The math Module, The random Module
• Lab 1: Exercises in this lesson
• Exercise: Floor and Modulus
• Exercise: How Many Pizzas Do We Need?
• Exercise: Dice Rolling
• Module 4: Python Strings
• Quotation Marks and Special Characters
• String Indexing, Slicing Strings
• Concatenation and Repetition, Combining Concatenation and Repetition
• Python Strings are Immutable, Common String Methods
• String Formatting
• Formatted String Literals (f-strings) (introduced in Python 3.6)
• Built-in String Functions
• Lab 1: Exercises in this lesson
• Exercise: Indexing Strings
• Exercise: Slicing Strings
• Exercise: Repetition, Exercise: Playing with Formatting
• Exercise: Outputting Tab-delimited Text
• Module 5: Iterables: Sequences, Dictionaries, and Sets
• Definitions, Sequences, Lists
• equences and Random
• Tuples, Ranges, Converting Sequences to Lists
• Indexing, Slicing, min(), max(), and sum()
• Converting between Sequences and Strings
• Unpacking Sequences
• Dictionaries, The len() Function, Sets, args and **kwargs
• Lab 1: Exercises in this lesson
• Exercise: Remove and Return Random Element
• Exercise: Simple Rock, Paper, Scissors Game
• Exercise: Creating a Dictionary from User Input
• Module 6: Virtual Environments
• Packages with pip
• Lab 1: Exercises in this lesson
• Exercise: Creating, Activiting, Deactivating, and Deleting a Virtual Environment
• Exercise: Working with a Virtual Environment
• install packages with pip.
• Module 7: Flow Control
• Conditional Statements, Compound Conditions
• The is and is not Operators
• all() and any() and the Ternary Operator
• In Between, Loops in Python
• break and continue, Looping through Lines in a File
• The else Clause in Loops
• The enumerate() Function, Generators
• List Comprehensions
• Lab 1: Exercises in this lesson
• Exercise: All True and Any True
• Exercise: Word Guessing Game
• Exercise: for...else
• Module 8: Exception Handling
• Exception Basics, Generic Exceptions
• The else and finally Clauses, Using Exceptions for Flow Control
• Raising Your Own Exceptions
• Lab 1: Installing and Configuring Windows 7
• Exercise: Raising Exceptions
• Exercise: Running Sum
• Module 9: Python Dates and Times
• Understanding Time, The time Module
• Time Structures, Times as Strings
• Time and Formatted Strings
• Pausing Execution with time.sleep()
• The datetime Module, datetime.datetime Objects
• Lab 1: Exercises in this lesson
• Exercise: What Color Pants Should I Wear?
• Exercise: Report on Departure Times
• Module 10: File Processing
• Opening Files, Writing to Files
• The os Module, os.walk()
• The os.path Module, A Better Way to Open Files
• Lab 1: Exericises in this lesson, Exercise: Finding Text in a File
• Exercise: Writing to Files, Exercise: List Creator
• Exercise: Comparing Lists
• Module 11: PEP8 and Pylint
• PEP8
• Pylint
• Lab 1: Click here to enter text.