Python Foundations

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November 21, 2024

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This online training course is a high level introduction to Python, a dynamic language popular for web development, IT security, big data, science, and scripting. This Python online training course covers setting up your computer to utilize Python, creating programs, string operations, tuple operations, input and output collection and manipulation, connecting to a database and executing queries, Python threading, and more!

24 Sections
127 Lessons
0m Duration

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Introduction

2 Lessons

What is Python?
Where can Python be used?

Installing and Configuring Python

3 Lessons

Installing Python
Adding Python to the PATH
Python in Interactive mode (terminal)

Hello World!

3 Lessons

Hello World program in python command line
Basic syntax rules
Saving program to a file, and executing with python

Variables

2 Lessons

Variable Assignments
Legal and Illegal variable naming conventions.

Data Types

5 Lessons

Strings
Integers
Float
Boolean
Keys are cases sensitive

Checking Datatypes

1 Lesson

Type function

Strings

14 Lessons

Accessing string values
Indexing
Slicing
Formating strings
Format method
Changing strings
Type function
String specific operators
Concatenation
Built-in string methods
Index()
Isupper()
Islower()
User Input

Lists

11 Lessons

Creating lists
Similar to creating variables
Accessing list values
Indexing
Slicing
Appending to lists
Append()
Accessing list values
Indexing
Matrixes
List of lists

Tuples

8 Lessons

Creating tuples
Accessing tuple values
Updating tuples
Removing elements
Tuple operations
Built-in methods
Difference between tuples & list
Why use tuple in place of a list?

Sets

3 Lessons

Add
Remove
Type

Basic Operators

7 Lessons

Arithmetic Operators
Relational Comparison
Assignment operators
Logical operators
Bitwise Operators
Membership Operators
Identity Operators

Conditional Flow

5 Lessons

How the concept of Boolean applies to Conditionals
Single if statements
Flowchart for simple if statement
Nested if statements
Flowchart of nested conditional

Loops

3 Lessons

For loops
While loops
Nesting loops

Control Statements

3 Lessons

Continue
Break
Pass

Exercises

1 Lesson

Calculator app

Dictionaries

15 Lessons

User input
Construction of Dictionaries
Curly braces
Creating a dictionary
Why dictionaries and not tuples and lists
Speed
Changing dictionary elements
Update method
Removing dictionary elements
Del statement
Pop method
Key properties
More than one entry per key not allowed
Keys are immutable
Built-in functions and methods

Functions

13 Lessons

Defining a function
Def
Calling a function
Function()
Arguments: Reference vs Value
Keyword Arguments.
Default Arguments
Anonymous functions
Lambda functions
Return keyword
Variable scopes (Global/Local)
Range() Function
Functions Exercises

Modules

3 Lessons

What is a module
Importing a module
Module location

Date and Time

5 Lessons

The time module
The calendar module
TimeTuple
Getting current time
Getting formatted time

Input Output

3 Lessons

Print to the screen
Gathering keyboard input
Reading and writing files

Exceptions

4 Lessons

Standard exceptions
Raising an exception
Catching and handling exceptions
Defining custom exceptions

Classes and Objects

9 Lessons

Syntax
OOP Terminology
Creating classes
Instance objects
Garbage Collection
Inheritance
Parent class
Child class
Overrides

GUI

4 Lessons

GUI concepts
Popular GUI libraries and toolkits
Tkinter
Build a GUI

24. Capstone Project: Building a Complete App

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Setting up a computer to utilize the Python technology
Create programs and learn various syntactical rules
How to assign variable values and about the different types of variables that Python supports
Various string operations
List operations
Tuple operations
Available operations for dealing with numbers in Python
Pythonic operators
How to use if statements to execute code conditionally
Using and controlling standard looping ability in Python
Use of the dictionary data structure
Time manipulation and formatting
Define, use, and return functions
Python modules in your application
Input/Output collection and manipulation
Defining, raising and handling exceptions
Classing and object oriented terminology
Regular expressions matching and searching
Types of sockets and their respective options
Python threading and how to use it in code
GUI abilities, specifically the provided tkInter