Curriculum

Module 1: Revisiting Python

• Data types
• Sequences
• Mapping types
• Program structure
• Files and console I/O
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Builtins

Module 2: OS Services

• The os module
• Environment variables
• Launching external commands
• Walking directory trees
• Paths, directories, and filenames
• Working with file systems
• Dates and times

Module 3: Pythonic Programming

• The Zen of Python
• Common idioms
• Lambda functions
• List comprehensions
• Generator expressions
• String formatting

Module 4: Modules and Packages

• Initialization code
• Namespaces
• Executing modules as scripts
• Documentation
• Packages and name resolution
• Naming conventions
• Using imports

Module 5: Classes

• Defining classes
• Instance methods and data
• Initializers
• Class methods
• Static methods
• Inheritance
• Multiple inheritance
• Pseudo-private variable

Module 6: Meta programming

• Implicit properties
• globals() and locals()
• Attributes
• The inspect module
• Decorators
• Monkey patching

Module 7: Programmer tools

• Analyzing programs
• Using pylint
• Testing code
• Using unittest
• Debugging
• Profiling
• Distributing modules
• Distribution concepts
• Setuptools
• Creating setup.py
• Building installers
• Running installers

Module 8: Database access

• The DB API
• Available Interfaces
• Connecting to a server
• Creating and executing a cursor
• Fetching data
• Parameterized statements
• Metadata
• Transaction control

Module 9: GUI Programming

• Overview
• The mainwindow object
• Widgets
• Colors and fonts
• GUI layout
• Event handling

Module 10: Networking Programming

• Sockets
• Clients
• Servers
• Application protocols
• Forking servers
• Threaded servers
• Binary data
• The struct module

Module 11: Threads

• Why use threads?
• Threads are different
• Variables are shared
• Python threads modules
• The threading module
• The queue module
• The python thread manager
• Debugging threaded programs

Module 12: XML and JSON

• Working with XML
• DOM and SAX
• Introducing ElementTree
• Parsing XML
• Navigating the document
• Creating a new XML document
• JSON
• Parsing JSON into Python
• Converting Python into JSON

Module 13: Extending Python

• About non-Python modules
• Overview of a C extension
• Creating functions
• Registering functions
• Initialization code
• Loading the module

Module 14: Using the sh module

• The sh namespace
• Running a simple command
• Keyword arguments
• Running commands in the background
• Piping and redirection
• Working with STDIN
• Exit codes
• Advanced features