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Python Basics: Course Overview

This document outlines a 5-day course on Python basics that will teach students how to get started with Python, including an overview of the standard library and popular third-party libraries. Students will learn about version control with Git, data structures like lists and dictionaries, objects and methods, conditionals, loops, functions, classes, and how to work with APIs and JSON. The course includes lectures and hands-on labs covering these topics to enhance students' Python skills. It is suitable for those of any background looking to learn Python.

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28 views

Python Basics: Course Overview

This document outlines a 5-day course on Python basics that will teach students how to get started with Python, including an overview of the standard library and popular third-party libraries. Students will learn about version control with Git, data structures like lists and dictionaries, objects and methods, conditionals, loops, functions, classes, and how to work with APIs and JSON. The course includes lectures and hands-on labs covering these topics to enhance students' Python skills. It is suitable for those of any background looking to learn Python.

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Python Basics

Lecture and Lab


5 Day Course

Course Overview
Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level language that gets work done in a
hurry! Python can improve all professional’s ability to do work and is freely available on
all major platforms without a charge. All lessons in our courseware are highly relevant
for scripting within the workplace, including; data retrieval and storage from the local
system, working with RESTful APIs, and decoding JSON.

What You’ll Learn


In this course, students will learn how to get started with Python, including an overview
of the Standard Library, and popular 3rd party libraries. Lessons include version control
with git, storing data in list and dictionaries, working with objects and methods,
conditionals, looping, creating functions, and building classes. Highly relevant labs
enhance these skills as students learn how to use JSON pulled from APIs, manipulate
Excel spreadsheets, create feature rich charts and graphs, and parse log files with the
Python regular expression library.

Python Basics

1. Introduction to Python
○ Installing Python 2.7+
○ Installing Python 3.x
○ Preparing to write Python
○ Preparing to write a Python file (*.py) - Text Editors
○ Executing a Python file
○ Python Enhancement Proposals
○ How to “speak” Python
○ Python Statements and Control Flow
○ Python Interpreter
○ Overview of the Standard Library
2. Version Controlling Code
○ 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
○ Objects
○ Methods
○ Built in Functions
○ Functions and Arguments
○ Print()
○ 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
○ Dictionaries
○ Python Dictionaries
○ Keys and Values
○ Dictionary Building
○ Dictionary Methods
○ Tuples
○ Python Time Tuples
○ Dictionaries vs Lists vs Tuples
○ Translating JSON to Pythonic Lists, Dictionaries and Tuples

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. Python List Comprehension


○ Basic List Comprehensions
○ Compound List Comprehensions

13. Creating Python Functions


○ Function Basics
○ Defining Functions
○ Function Polymorphism
○ Argument Defaults
○ Lambdas
○ What is if __name__ == “__main__”
○ Local Variables
○ Variable Masking
○ Creating functions using Sorted() and sort()
○ Preventing Variable Modifications
○ Argument Matching Methods

14. Modules & Packages


○ Pip and pip3
○ Module Basics
○ Packages
○ Virtual environments
○ Defined modules
○ Import modules
○ From import statements
○ Namespace

15. Python Scope


○ Naming conventions
○ Local scope
○ Global scope
○ Nested scope

16. 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

17. (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)
Labs

● Lab 1 - Using vim


● Lab 2 - Using leafpad
● Lab 3 - Making a Github account
● Lab 4 - Using & Installing Python
● Lab 5 - The Shebang Line
● Lab 6 - Starting to Use Print()
● Lab 7 - Collecting Input()
● Lab 8 - Working with Lists
● Lab 9 - List Objects and Methods
● Lab 10 - Lists of Lists
● Lab 11 - Python Dictionaries
● Lab 12 - Getting dir(obj) help() and pydoc
● Lab 13 - String Methods
● Lab 14 - Copying Files and Folders
● Lab 15 - Moving and Renaming Files and Folders
● Lab 16 - Testing if conditionals
● Lab 17 - IPv4 Testing with if
● Lab 18 - Writing your own if-logic script
● Lab 19 - Using while, if, elif, else (Monty Python)
● Lab 20 - Troubleshooting while, if, elif, else
● Lab 21 - Starting to Learn Loops
● Lab 22 - Looping with for
● Lab 23 - for loops and range()
● Lab 24 - Migrating 2.x to 3.x py
● Lab 25 - Parsing Log Files
● Lab 26 - Write to Files
● Lab 27 - Read from Files
● Lab 28 - Creating Functions
● Lab 29 - Best Practice and pylint
● Lab 30 - pip and import
● Lab 31 - Exploring Network Interfaces
● Lab 32 - Defining Functions
● Lab 33 - Scripting Commands with Python
● Lab 34 - Producing Graphs and Charts
● Lab 35 - os.walk() the Directory Tree
● Lab 36 - Python and Excel
● Lab 37 - Python, APIs, and JSON
● Lab 38 - Searching with Regular Expressions
● Lab 39 - Creating objects in Python from "Scratch"
● Lab 40 - Inheritance
● Lab 41 - Using Classes

Prerequisites
Keyboard proficiency

Who Should Attend


This course is an appropriate introduction to students of any background looking to get
started with Python. System administrators, network engineers, managers, and those
with development skills in other programming languages will find the lessons and labs
highly relevant to their disciplines.

Follow-on Courses
· Recommended Follow up: APIs and API Design with Python (5 days)
· Recommended Follow up: Python for Network Automation (5 days)

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