Python Basics (2023-12-18 - 2023-12-20)

Original Agenda

• Agenda: Python Basics (2023-12-18 - 2023-12-20)

Notebook

• Structure: Python Basics (2023-12-18 - 2023-12-20)

• Entire notebook: Python Basics (2023-12-18 - 2023-12-20)

• Download: notebook.ipynb

Github Repository

• https://github.com/jfasch/2023-12-18

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.

• Variables

• Datatypes

• Compound Datatypes

  • 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

• Boolean

Exercise time:

• Commandline Arguments (sys.argv)

• Exercise: Mixed List (Interactive Interpreter)

• Exercise: Mixed List (Executable Program)

• Exercise: Digit to English Word

  • set? ctor? -> iterable

  • Exchange key/value of a dict ({str:int} -> {int:str})

Control Flow, Sequences, Iteration

• The if Statement

• Exercise: Determine Maximum of Two Numbers

  Here’s the condensed version of it

  import sys
  print(max(map(int, sys.argv[1:])))
  

• while Loops

• 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 About Datatypes

• References, (Im)mutability

• 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()

• 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

A Bit Of OO

From Object Oriented Programming

• Classes And Dictionaries

• Constructor

• Methods

• Properties

• collections.namedtuple

Exercise:

• Exercise: Away From Raw Dictionaries