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Course Outline

Introduction to Python Programming

  • Executing Python code
  • Leveraging Python Development Tools (Integrated Development Environments and command-line utilities)
  • Utilising the Python and iPython shells alongside the iPython Notebook

Data Types and Operations

  • Integers and floats – likely unnecessary
  • Strings and bytes – likely unnecessary
  • Tuples and lists
  • Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
  • Sets and frozen sets

Organizing and Distributing Code

  • Developing modules and packages
  • Disseminating code to repositories

Object Oriented and Functional Programming

  • Constructing and utilising functions and classes
  • Enhancing functions and classes with decorators
  • An introduction to meta-classes

Error Handling and Testing

  • Managing and raising exceptions
  • Writing and running tests (including doc tests and unit tests)
  • Evaluating code coverage through tests

Working with Files and Directories

  • Accessing various file types and understanding fundamental file handling principles
  • Creating, reading, updating, and deleting files (including standard text files, CSVs, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents)
  • Extracting data from text files using Regular Expressions
  • Creating and removing directories, listing contents, and searching for files

Requirements

No prerequisites are required.

 14 Hours

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