Python

Overview

• History of Python
• Features of the Python language

The environment

• Local Environment Setup
• Download and install Python (set up the PATH)
• Running Python

Syntax

• The first program in Python
• Identifiers
• Keywords in Python
• Identification
• Multi-row statements
• Quotation in Python
• Comments
• Arguments from the command line

Variable types

• Assigning values to variables
• Multiple assignment
• Data types (numbers, strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries)

Operators

• Arithmetic operators
• Comparison operators
• Assignment operators
• Bitwise and logical operators
• Membership and identity operators (in, is)
• The prependence of operators

Control Flow

• if ...
• if ... else
• elif
• one-line if

Cycles

• The while loop
• The infinite loop
• The for loop
• Using else with loops
• Controlling loops (break, continue, pass)

Numbers

• Converting numbers
• Functions from the random library
• Trigonometric functions
• Mathematical constants

Strings

• Accessing values in strings
• Updating strings
• Special characters
• Special string operators
• Formatting Strings
• Unicode
• Function for strings (count, center, join, len ...)

Lists

• Lists in Python
• Accessing elements of lists
• Manipulating lists
• Indexing, slicing and arrays
• Functions and methods

Tuples

• Tuples in Python
• Accessing the elements of tuples
• Manipulating tuples
• Indexing, slicing, and arrays
• Functions and methods

Dictionaries

• Dictionaries in Python
• Accessing the elements of dictionaries
• Manipulating dictionaries
• Properties of keys
• Functions and methods

Functions

• Defining a function
• Calling a function
• The arguments of a function
• Returning a value

Forms

• The import keyword
• from ... import
• The dir() function
• The standard library

I/O files

• Write to the screen
• Reading from the keyboard
• Opening and closing a file
• Read and write to a file
• File object methods

Exceptions

• Assertions in Python
• What is an exception
• Handling an exception
• try...catch...finally
• Defining and throwing an exception

Classes and objects

• OOP terminology
• Creating classes
• Creating instances of a class
• Inheritance
• Overriding and Overloading
• Data Hiding

Introduction to other libraries

• Regular expressions (re)
• Date and Time (time)
• HTTP (urllib, http)