Programa

Module 1: An overview of Python

• What is python?
• Python Timeline
• Advantages/Disadvantages of Python
• Getting help with pydoc

Module 2: The Python Environment

• Starting Python
• Using the interpreter
• Running a Python script
• Python scripts on Unix/Windows
• Editors and IDEs

Module 3: Getting Started

• Using variables
• Built-in functions
• Strings
• Numbers
• Converting among types
• Writing to the screen
• Command line parameters

Module 4: Flow Control

• About flow control
• White space
• Conditional expressions
• Relational and Boolean operators
• While loops
• Alternate loop exits

Module 5: Array types

• About array types (AKA sequences)
• Lists and list methods
• Tuples
• Indexing and slicing
• Iterating through a sequence
• Nested sequences
• Sequence functions, keywords, and operators
• List comprehensions
• Generator Expressions

Module 6: Working with files

• File overview
• Opening a text file
• Reading a text file
• Writing to a text file

Module 7: Dictionaries and Sets

• About dictionaries
• Creating dictionaries
• Iterating through a dictionary
• About sets
• Creating sets
• Working with sets

Module 8: Functions

• Defining functions
• Returning values
• Parameters
• Global and local scope

Module 9: Sorting

• The sorted() function
• Alternate keys
• Lambda functions
• Sorting collections
• Using operator.itemgetter()
• Reverse sorting

Module 10: Errors and Exception Handling

• Syntax errors
• Exceptions
• Using try/catch
• Handling multiple exceptions
• Ignoring exceptions

Module 11: Modules and Packages

• The import statement
• Module search path
• Creating Modules
• Using packages
• Function and Module aliases

Module 12: Classes

• About o-o programming
• Defining classes
• Constructors
• Methods
• Instance data
• Properties
• Class methods and data