COURSE OUTLINE:

Module 1

• Data Types

• Function: print

• Math operators: + -/*

• String operator +

• Functions: int, str

• Function: input

• Optional parameters

• String functions, upper, lower, swapcase, title, format

• multi-line string

• Boolean

• Boolean operators: and, or, not

• If statement

• conditional operators: > < >= <= == !=

• else

• elif

• Lists

• list element assignment (list[] = element)

• list functions: append, remove, len, index, insert, extend

• for-loops.

• Code blocks

• list comprehension

• range function

• list slicing.

• in operator.

• list function: sort, reverse

• Unpacking

• tuple

• string functions: split, join, count

• list function: count

• file function: open()

• with statement

• random library

• shuffle, choice, randint

• help() and dir()

• from import

• help and python manual

• making a function

• optional parameters

• named parameter

• importing function from other files

• while, continue, break

• turtle/logo programming

Module 2

• enumerate(), zip()

• Set

• Dictionary

   o try, except, else, finally

• datetime library

• Basic Object Oriented Programming o constructor

   o "private" methods

   o inheritance

▪ super

   o dunder functions

• dir introspection

• python debugger

• Python IDEs

   o visual studio code

   o pycharm

   o IPython

Module 3

• Web programming using Flask

• Internet API connectivity (request)

• Database (csv, sqlite, peewee, etc)

• GUI programming (tkinter, Kivy)

• Console/Terminal development

• Test Driven Development

Module 4

• f-strings (python 3.6)

• for-else

• try-except-else

• virtualenv and pipenv

• Python's variables are by-reference

• Shallow and deep copy

• Generators

• args, kwargs

• Positional only and Keyword only parameters (python 3.8, python 3.7)

• OOP

    o Instance and Class variables

    o dunder methods

    o _getitem_

    o _repr_

    o _str_

    o _len_

    o _call_

    o _lt_

    o _add_

• Context Managers

• Function caching

• OS library

• Pathlib library

• Python Practices

     o code organization

▪ modules and packages

     o PEP-8

     o Linters

         ▪ Pylint

             ➢ more verbose

             ➢ configurabke

          ▪ pyflake8

             ➢ quality assurance

          ▪ idiomatic Python

              ➢ https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/10/04/writing-idiomatic-python/

              ➢ https://jeffknupp.com/writing-idiomatic-python-ebook/

Module 5

• Capstone where students use what they've learned to create a new program

• Hackathon