Agenda: Python Basics (2023-06-20 - 2023-06-22)

Setup

• Python Installation

• Visual Studio Code for Python Programming

Basics

Datatypes

• Blahblah

• Hello World

• Running Python Programs

• Syntax etc.

• Commandline Arguments (sys.argv)

• Variables

• Datatypes

• Compound Datatypes

• Boolean

• Exercise: Mixed List (Interactive Interpreter)

• Exercise: Mixed List (Executable Program)

• Exercise: Digit to English Word

Control Flow, Sequences, Iteration

• The if Statement

• Exercise: Determine Maximum of Two Numbers

• while Loops

• Exercise: Primeness (while)

• for Loops

• The range Function

• Exercise: Primeness (for)

More Datatypes

• Sequential Datatypes

• Indexing and Slicing

• References, (Im)mutability

• Functions

• Exercise: Primeness (Function)

• More About Strings

• Miscellaneous String Methods

• More About Lists

• More About Dictionaries

• More About Sets

• Exercise: Function: uniq()

• Exercise: Generator: uniq()

• Comprehensions (List, Dictionary, Set)

• File I/O

• Exercise: Eliminate Empty/Comment-Only Lines

Exercise Series: CSV Files

• CSV Files

• Exercise: Read CSV File (csv.reader)

• Exercise: Read CSV File (csv.dictreader)

• Exercise: Refactoring - Extract CSV Reading Into Function (csv.reader)

• Exercise: Refactoring - Extract CSV Reading Into Function (csv.dictreader)

• Exercise: Refactoring - Extract Both CSV Formats Into Module

Object Oriented Programming

• Classes And Dictionaries

• Constructor

• Methods

• str() And repr()

• Exercise: Away From Raw Dictionaries

Advanced Language Features

• Iterating Intelligently: Generators, and the Iterator Protocol

• Positional and Keyword Arguments