Python Basics (2022-02-23 - 2022-02-25)#

Day 1 #

Python Installation
Visual Studio Code for Python Programming
Blahblah
Hello World
Syntax etc.
Variables
Datatypes
Boolean
Compound Datatypes
Exercise: Exercise: Mixed List (Interactive Interpreter)
Exercise: Exercise: Mixed List (Executable Program) (Solution: mixed-list.py)

Day 2 #

Quick walkthrough of data structures and algorithms

	Big-O Notation
	(Unbalanced) binary tree
	Binary search in a sorted array
	Hash table (very basic)
	Raymond Hettinger - Modern Dictionaries. Raymond Hettinger, explaining how dictionaries are implemented.

Commandline Arguments (sys.argv)
Exercise: Exercise: Digit to English Word (Solution: digit.py)
Sequential Datatypes
Indexing and Slicing
References, (Im)mutability
Control Flow and Iteration
- The if Statement
- Exercise: Exercise: Determine Maximum of Two Numbers (Solution: maximum.py)
- while Loops
- Exercise: Exercise: Primeness (while) (Solution: prime-while.py)
- for Loops
- The range Function
- Exercise: Exercise: Primeness (for) (Solution prime-for.py)

Day 3 #

Functions
- Functions
- Exercise: Exercise: Function: uniq()
- Short generators demo?
Miscellaneous
File I/O
- File I/O
- Exercise: Parsing /etc/passwd
Into the wild: do something with GIS data
- Sample data here
- CSV Files
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- GDAL Project on PyPI
- PyPI
  - Python Package Index
  - Virtual Environments

Further Information #

Book: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (Al Sweigart)
Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python. Raymond Hettinger, reiterating his favorite phrase: “There must be a better way”. (Hettinger is a “Python Core Developer”.)

(He uses Python 2 though.)

Data Structures #

Python Tutorial for Beginners 4: Lists, Tuples, and Sets, by Corey Schafer
Python Tutorial for Beginners 5: Dictionaries - Working with Key-Value Pairs, by Corey Schafer
Built in Super Heroes. David Beazley in an entertaining keynote to the “PyData Chicago 2016” conference. He has a number of very good and entertaining (and very advanced) videos. You have to spend an entire evening with him though.

OS Things #

Data Science #