Getting Started
- Lecture Introduction
- What is Python?
- Why do people use Python?
- What can I do with Python?
- How does Python stack up to other languages?
- Installing Python
- "Hello World" with IDLE
- The Python interpreter
- Program execution
- Different implementations of Python
- IDE options for running Python programs
- Installing and configuring Atom to run Python
- Installing and configuring Eclipse to run Python
Python Essentials
- Lecture Introduction
- Helpful Python functions
- The Python conceptual hierarchy
- Basic Python syntax
- Identifiers
- Operators
- Data types
- Data type conversions
- Python documentation sources
Control Statements
- Lecture Introduction
- Conditional statements
- The if/elif statements
- Nested if statements
- LAB 1: The Invoice Program
- Iteration statements
- The while statement
- The for statement
- Loop control statements (break and continue)
- Nested loop statements
- LAB 2: The Future Value Program
- LAB 3: Even or Odd
- LAB 4: Fizz/Buzz
- LAB 5: Looping a Triangle
Functions and Modules
- Lecture Introduction
- Working with Functions
- Defining and calling functions
- Arguments: by value vs. by reference
- Arguments: required, keyword, default, variable
- Defining and calling a main() function
- Scope: local vs. global variables
- LAB 1: The Future Value Program with functions
- Working with Modules
- Creating a module
- Importing a module
- Locating modules
- Documenting a module
- Using standard modules
- LAB 2: The Convert Temperatures Program
- LAB 3: The Guess the Number Game
- Recursion in Python
- Generators
- Anonymous functions: lambda
- LAB 4: Recursive Algorithms: The factorial of a number
- LAB 5: Recursive Algorithms: Compute a Fibonacci series
Strings
- Lecture Introduction
- Basic skills for working with strings
- How to search and loop through a string
- Basic string methods
- String methods for working with case
- String methods for working with spacing
- Finding and replacing parts of a string
- Splitting strings into a list of strings
- Joining strings
- LAB 1: The Create Account program
- LAB 2: The Word Counter program
Numbers
- Lecture Introduction
- How floating point numbers work
- The math module
- How to use the format() method of a string
- The locale module
- The decimal module
- LAB: The Invoice Program with decimal numbers
Dates and Times
- Lecture Introduction
- Working with dates and times
- Creating date, time, and datetime objects
- Creating datetime objects by parsing strings
- Formatting dates and times
- Working with spans of time
- Getting date and time parts
- Comparing date/time objects
- LAB 1: The Invoice Due Date program
- LAB 2: The Hotel Reservation program
Lists and Tuples
- Lecture Introduction
- Working with lists
- Adding and removing items
- Processing the items in a list
- Passing lists into functions
- Nested lists
- Counting, reversing, and sorting lists
