Core Python

Syllabus

General Introduction

What is a programming language
Algorithms
Exploring Python
What is Debugging?
Syntax errors
Runtime Errors
Semantic Errors
Experimental Debugging

Data

Values and Data Types
Operators and Operands
Data Types
Type conversion functions
Variables
Variable Names and Keywords
Statements and Expressions
Order of Operations
Boolean Values and Boolean Expressions
Logical operators
Precedence of Operators

Objects

Object Instances
Instances
User-defined Classes
Instances
Attributes
Methods

Sequences

Introduction: Sequences
Strings
Operations on Strings
Operations and Strings
String Methods
The in and not in operators
Lists
Tuples
Tuple Packing
Tuples as Return Values
Tuple Assignment with unpacking

Iteration

Introduction: Iteration
The for Loop
The Accumulator Pattern
The Accumulator Pattern with Lists
The Accumulator Pattern with Strings

Files

Working with Data Files
Reading a File
Alternative File Reading Methods
Iterating over lines in a file
Ways for Reading and Processing a File
Writing Text Files

Dictionaries

Introduction: Dictionaries
Dictionary operations
Dictionary methods
Accumulating Results in Dictionaries
Accumulating Multiple Results In a Dictionary
Accumulating Results From a Dictionary

Functions

Function Definition
Function Invocation
Function Parameters
Returning a value from a function
Variables and parameters are local
Global Variables
Functions can call other functions
Print vs. return

Python Modules

Modules
Importing Modules
Syntax for Importing Modules and Functionality
The random module
Installing Modules
Installing pip
Using pip to install other modules

Requests

Requesting data from the Internet
Fetching a page
Fetching with UNIX curl
Fetching in python with requests.get
Anatomy of URLs
The HTTP protocol
Requests Module

REST APIs

Using REST APIs
Generating Request URLs
Encoding URL Parameters
Using requests.get to encode URL parameters
Debugging calls to requests.get()
Processing JSON results

Exceptions

Raising and Catching Errors
When to use try/except

Classes

Introduction: Classes and Objects - the Basics
Object-oriented programming
Objects Revisited
User Defined Classes
Adding Parameters to the Constructor
Adding Other Methods to a Class
Objects as Arguments and Parameters
Instances as Return Values
Sorting Lists of Instances
Class Variables and Instance Variables

Recursion

What Is Recursion?
The Three Laws of Recursion