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Introduction to Python Programming

  • Executing Python code
  • Utilising Python Development Tools (IDEs and command-line utilities)
  • Working with Python and iPython shells, as well as iPython Notebook

Data Types and Operations

  • Integers and floats – potentially dispensable
  • Strings and bytes – potentially dispensable
  • Tuples and lists
  • Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
  • Sets and frozen sets

Organising and Distributing Code

  • Creating modules and packages
  • Distributing code to repositories

Object-Oriented and Functional Programming

  • Creating and utilising functions and classes
  • Modifying functions and classes with decorators
  • Introduction to meta-classes

Error Handling and Testing

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

Working with Files and Directories

  • Accessing various file types and understanding file handling principles
  • Creating, reading, updating, and deleting files (including standard text files, CSVs, 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
 14 Hours

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