Python Programming Self-Paced Training Course

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Training Description

This Python Programming self-paced technical training class will teach you the basics of Python, a powerful programming language used so to solve many different types of problems. This self-paced course begins at the basics of Python, and by the end of the final module, students will be able to write Python programs to process text, work with complex data types, handle exceptions, and begin designing object-oriented programs.

Training Objectives

Describe the basic structure of the Python language including Python's data types and control flow constructs
Write, debug, and execute Python programs
Describe and work with nested data types
Describe and work with exception handling
Understand the basics of modules and object oriented programming in Python
Use Python to work with files and the operating system

Prerequisites

Attendees should have experience in some high-level programming language (for example: C, C++, Java, Perl,etc.) and the ability to perform basic operations in the operating system.

Self-Paced Modules

Python Programming Training Module 1: Introduction to Python

Python websites and books
A little history
Interactive Python and Python programs
The IDLE IDE
Quick introduction to variables

Python Programming Training Module 2: Numbers

Numeric literals, variables and operators
Reading from standard input
The if and while statements

Python Programming Training Module 3: Strings

String literals, variables and operators
Strings as sequences and slicing
String formatting
String methods

Python Programming Training Module 4: Lists

Lists defined
Creating, indexing, slicing lists
Looping through lists
List operators
List methods

Python Programming Training Module 5: Control Flow Constructs

if, if/else
while loop
break and continue
for loop
List comprehensions

Python Programming Training Module 6: Tuples

Tuples defined
Creating, indexing, slicing tuples
Tuple comprehensions
Tuple operators

Python Programming Training Module 7: Dictionaries

Dictionaries defined
Creating and indexing dictionaries
Processing dictionaries
Dictionary methods

Python Programming Training Module 8: The File Type

The file type defined
Opening and closing files
Reading from and writing to files
File iterators
Files and list comprehensions

Python Programming Training Module 9: Functions

Functions definition and invocation
Return values and function arguments
Arguments passed by reference
Default arguments
Calling functions with keywords
Global variables with global

Python Programming Training Module 10: Complex Data Types

Introduction to the basic complex data types
List of lists
Dictionary of Dictionaries
Arbitrarily nested data types

Python Programming Training Module 11: Introduction to Modules

Modules defined
Standard library
Location of library files
The from statement

Python Programming Training Module 12: Introduction to Object Oriented Python

Object oriented programming defined
Creating a class
Constructors
Intro to inheritance

Python Programming Training Module 13: Introduction to Exception Handling

Built-in exceptions
Handling exceptions with the try / except statement

Python Programming Training Module 14: Using the sys and os Modules

Command line arguments
Exiting the program
Various sys properties
Environment variables
Changing directories, file permissions
Making and removing directories
Deleting files
Executing external programs
Opening pipes