Python Programming Fundamentals

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This course is designed for those wishing to learn the Python programming language. The emphasis is on the Python language, the core libraries, as well as on the selection of the best and most useful libraries developed by the Python community. Python drives businesses and is used by scientists all over the world – it is one of the most popular programming languages.

Introduction to Python Programming

• Running Python code
• Using Python Development Tools (IDEs and command line tools)
• Working with Python and iPython shells as well as iPython Notebook

Data Types and Operations

• Integers and floats – probably not necessary
• Strings and bytes – probably not necessary
• Tuples and lists
• Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
• Sets and frozen sets

Organizing and Distributing Code

• Creating modules and packages
• Distributing code to repositories

Object Oriented and Functional Programming

• Creating and using functions and classes
• Modifying functions and classes with decorators
• Introducing meta-classes

Error Handling and Testing

• Handling and raising exceptions
• Writing and executing tests (doc tests and unit tests)
• Checking code coverage by tests

Working with Files and Directories

• Accessing different types of files and file handling principles
• Creating, reading, updating and deleting files (including regular text files, csv, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files)
• Extracting data from text files using Regular Expressions
• Creating and deleting directories, listing and searching for files