Python Training Course

Course objective

After taking this course attendees should be able to:

• Use python interactively
• Able to execute python scripts
• Can approach to any programming problems using python

Prerequisites

The audience should have a basic understanding of any programming languages like C or Java or knowledge of any scripting language.

course duration: 30 hours

Course Content

• Variables, expressions, and statements 
  • Values and types
  • Variables 
  • Variable names and keywords 
  • Statements 
  • Operators and operands 
  • Expressions 
  • Order of operations 
  • Modulus operator 
  • String operations 
  • Asking the user for input 
• Strings 
  • A string is a sequence
  • Getting the length of a string using len 
  • Traversal through a string with a loop 
  • String slices 
  • Strings are immutable 
  • Looping and counting 
  • The in operator 
  • String comparison 
  • string methods 
  • Parsing strings 
  • Format operator
• Lists 
  • A list is a sequence 
  • Lists are mutable 
  • Traversing a list 
  • List operations 
  • List slices 
  • List methods 
  • Deleting elements 
  • Lists and functions 
  • Lists and strings 
  • Parsing lines 
  • Objects and values 

• Dictionaries

• Tuples

• Sets

• Conditional execution 
  • Boolean expressions
  • Logical operators 
  • Conditional execution 
  • Alternative execution 
  • Chained conditionals 
  • Nested conditionals 
  • Catching exceptions using try and except
• Iteration 
  • Updating variables 
  • The while statement 
  • Infinite loops 
  • “Infinite loops” and break 
  • Finishing iterations with continue
  • Definite loops using for 
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• Functions 
  • Function calls
  • Built-in functions 
  • Type conversion functions 
  • Random numbers 
  • Math functions 
  • Adding new functions 
  • Definitions and uses 
  • Flow of execution 
  • Parameters and arguments 
  • Fruitful functions and void functions 
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• Errors and Exceptions
  • Syntax Errors
  • Exceptions
  • Handling Exceptions
  • Raising Exceptions
  • Exception Chaining
  • User-defined Exceptions
  • Defining Clean-up Actions
  • Predefined Clean-up Actions

• Files 
  • Persistence 
  • Opening files 
  • Text files and lines 
  • Reading files 
  • Searching through a file
  • Letting the user choose the file name 
  • Using try, except, and open 
  • Writing files

• Networked programs 
  • HyperText Transport Protocol - HTTP 
  • The World’s Simplest Web Browser 
  • Retrieving an image over HTTP 
  • Retrieving web pages with urllib 
  • Parsing HTML and scraping the web 
  • Parsing HTML using regular expressions 
  • Parsing HTML using BeautifulSoup 
  • Reading binary files using urllib 

• CLASSES
  • A WORD ABOUT NAMES AND OBJECTS
  • PYTHON SCOPES AND NAMESPACES
  • SCOPES AND NAMESPACES EXAMPLE
  • A FIRST LOOK AT CLASSES
  • CLASS DEFINITION SYNTAX
    • CLASS OBJECTS
    • INSTANCE OBJECTS
    • METHOD OBJECTS
    • CLASS AND INSTANCE VARIABLES
  • INHERITANCE
    • MULTIPLE INHERITANCE
  • PRIVATE VARIABLES
  • ODDS AND ENDS
  • ITERATORS
  • GENERATORS
  • GENERATOR EXPRESSIONS
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• Using databases and SQL 
  • What is a database?
  • Database concepts 
  • Creating a database table 
  • Structured Query Language summary
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• Standard Library
  • Operating System Interface
  • File Wildcards
  • Command Line Arguments
  • Error Output Redirection and Program Termination
  • String Pattern Matching
  • Mathematics
  • Internet Access
  • Dates and Times
  • Data Compression
  • Performance Measurement
  • Quality Control

• Project Work