Course Content

Python Course Contents:

1. Introduction
   • What is python
   • Why python, why not other languages
   • The python console
   • Python in linux and windows
   • Simple operations
2. Strings
   • String operations
   • Simple input and output
   • Type conversion
   • Variables
   • In-place operators
   • Quiz on Strings
   • Assignment on Strings
3. Control structures
   • Boolean and comparisions
   • If statements
   • Else statements
   • Boolean logic
   • Operator precedence
   • While loop
   • Quiz on control structures
   • Assignment on control structures
4. Lists
   • List operations
   • List functions
   • Range
   • For loop
   • Quiz on lists
   • Assignment on lists
5. Dictionaries and tuples
   • Dictionaries operations
   • Dictionaries functions
   • Tuples
   • List comprehensions
   • String formatting
   • Quiz on Dictionaries and tuples
   • Assignment on dictionaries and tuples
6. Sets
   • Sets operations
   • Sets functions
   • Quiz on sets
   • Assignment on sets
7. Functions and modules (Check section 12 for modules and packages)
   • Function arguments
   • Returning from functions
   • Comments and doc strings
   • Functions as objects
   • *args and **kwargs
   • Closures
   • Decorators
   • Global
   • Modules
   • How to write your own module
   • How to use existing modules
   • The standard library and pip
   • Quiz on Functions and modules
   • Assignment on functions and modules
8. Functional programming
   • Lambdas
   • Map and filter
   • Reduce
   • Iterators and Generators
   • Revisiting decorators
   • Recursion
   • Itertools
   • Revisiting modules
   • Quiz on functional programming
   • Assignment on functional programming
9. Exceptions and file handling
   • Exceptions
   • Exception handling
   • Finally
   • Raising exceptions
   • Assertions
   • Opening files
   • Reading files
   • Writing files
   • Working with files
   • Quiz on Exceptions and file handling
   • Assignment on Exceptions and file handling
10. Object oriented programming
    • What is a class and object
    • Encapsulation, does python support encapsulation? How to achieve it?
    • Inheritance, does python support inheritance?, types of inheritance
    • Abstraction, does python support abstraction?, how to achieve it?
    • Polymorphism, does python support polymorphism? How to achieve it?
    • Does python support Over riding, over loading, operator overloading
    • Magic methods
    • Class and static methods
    • What is the use of python property feature?
    • Creating your own exception classes
    • Quiz on Object oriented programming
    • Assignment on object oriented programming
11. Regular expressions
    • Simple functions
    • Metacharacters
    • Quantifiers
    • Character classes
    • Groups
    • Escape sequences
    • Modifiers
    • Quiz on regular expressions
    • Assignment on regular expressions
12. Modules and Packages
    • How to write a package
    • How to write a sub package
    • What is the difference between package and module
    • Writing a package and making it installable
    • Simple project – Building a package
13. Miscellaneous concepts
    • The zen of python
    • PEP
    • Creating virtual environment
    • Tuple unpacking
    • Packages
    • Creating your own packages and installing
    • Quiz on miscellaneous concepts
    • Assignment on miscellaneous concpets
14. Working with MySQLdb using Python
    • MySQLdb module – connect
    • Create, Read, Update and Delete records using MySQLdb module
    • Fetching one record, many records from mysql table
    • Quiz on Working with MySQLdb using Python
    • Assignment on working with MySQLdb using Python
15. Python application programming
    • Creating virtual environment
    • telnetlib
    • ftplib
    • smtplib
    • json
    • csv
    • xml
    • beautifulsoup
    • urllib
    • subprocess
    • SimpleHTTPServer
    • CGIHTTPServer
    • sqlite3
    • logging
    • parsing HTML data