Python Training Course Content
Python Training Course Content
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
➢ What’s python?
➢ Why do people use python?
➢ Some quotable quotes
➢ A python history lesson
➢ Advocacy news
➢ What’s python good for?
➢ What’s python not good for?
➢ The compulsory features list
➢ Python portability
➢ On apples and oranges
➢ Summary: why python?
➢ A First Pass
➢ The ‘Big Picture’
➢ Numbers
➢ Dynamic Typing Interlude
➢ Strings
➢ Lists
➢ Dictionaries
➢ Tuples
➢ General Object Properties
➢ Mutable vs Immutable
➢ Summary: Python’s Type Hierarchies
➢ Built-In Type Gotchas
➢ Lab Session 2
SECTION 5: FUNCTIONS
➢ Function Basics
➢ Scope Rules In Functions
➢ More On “Global” (And “Nonlocal”)
➢ More On “Return”
➢ More On Argument Passing
➢ Special Argument Matching Modes
➢ Odds And Ends
➢ Generator Expressions And Functions
➢ Function Design Concepts
➢ Functions Are Objects: Indirect Calls
➢ Function Gotchas
➢ Optional Case Study: Set Functions
➢ Lab Session 4
SECTION 6: MODULES
➢ Module Basics
➢ Module Files Are A Namespace
➢ Name Qualification
➢ Import Variants
➢ Reloading Modules
➢ Package Imports
➢ Odds And Ends
➢ Module Design Concepts
➢ Modules Are Objects: Metaprograms
➢ Module Gotchas
➢ Optional Case Study: A Shared Stack Module
➢ Lab Session 5
SECTION 8: EXCEPTIONS
➢ Exception Basics
➢ First Examples
➢ Exception Idioms
➢ Exception Catching Modes
➢ Class Exceptions
➢ Exception Gotchas
➢ Lab Session 7
LABORATORY EXERCISES
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