Python Basics (2023-11-29 - 2023-12-01)

Original Agenda

• Agenda: Python Basics (2023-11-29 - 2023-12-01)

Notebook

• Structure: Python Basics (Jupyter Notebook)

• Entire notebook: notebook.ipynb

Github Repository

• https://github.com/jfasch/2023-11-29

Material

• Python Programming: From Absolute Beginner to Advanced Productivity

Setup

• Python Installation

• Visual Studio Code for Python Programming

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

Day 2, Morning Awakening

• Infinity: The Iterator Protocol

Control Flow, Sequences, Iteration (Continued)

• Exercise: Primeness (while)

• for Loops

• The range Function

• Exercise: Primeness (for)

Functions

• Functions (Slideshow)

• Functions: Global and Local Scope (Livehacking Screenplay)

• Exercise: Primeness (Function)

More Datatypes

• Sequential Datatypes

• Indexing and Slicing

• More About Strings

• Miscellaneous String Methods

• More About Lists

• More About Dictionaries

• More About Sets

• Exercise: Function: uniq()

• Exercise: Generator: uniq()

Day 3, Morning Awakening

Some CSV, matplotlib, …

• Virtual Environments

• Python Package Index

• Pandas

Weird things …

• Taking time: time — Time access and conversions

• More time and date: datetime — Basic date and time types

• Measuring code execution time

  • timeit — Measure execution time of small code snippets

  • The exec() Function

Miscellaneous

• Comprehensions (List, Dictionary, Set)

• File I/O

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