AD-141 Introduction to Python Programming
Duration: 4 Days
Hands-On Format: This hands-on class is 90/10 lab to lecture ratio, combining engaging lecture, demos, group
activities and discussions with comprehensive machine-based practical programming labs.
Preface A: Introduction
Section A.1: Orientation to the Classroom Environment
Chapter 1: Basic Python Syntax
• Use correct Python syntax in Python programs.
• Use basic Python input and output functions properly.
• Write Python programs using the standard numeric data types and their operators.
• Use strings and their methods in Python programs.
• Convert between numeric and string data types.
Chapter 2: Language Components
• Use the indenting requirements of Python properly.
• Use the Python control flow constructs correctly.
• Understand and use Python’s various relational and logical operators.
• Use if statements to make decisions within the Python code.
• Use while and for loops to perform repetitive operations.
Chapter 3: Collections
• Write Python programs by using the various Python collection types.
• Use lists to store and manipulate ordered collections of objects.
• Use tuples to store and retrieve immutable collections of objects.
• Use sets to store and manipulate unordered collections of unique objects.
• Use dictionaries to perform quick lookups on collections of objects.
• Sort the various collection data types in a variety of ways.
Chapter 4: Functions
• Define and use custom functions within a Python program.
• Define functions that allow passing of named and optional arguments.
• Define and use functions that allow a variable number of arguments.
• Understand access the various scopes of variables within a Python application.
• Pass references to functions the same way references to other objects are used.
• Use the map and filter datatypes to apply a function to iterable objects.
• Understand and use nested functions and lambdas.
• Define and use recursive functions.
Chapter 5: Modules
• Use modules to hold Python definitions and statements.
• Define and access modules from other modules.
• Use the dir function to list available symbols with a module’s global scope.
• Check the index of Python standard library modules for modules that may be helpful.
• Understand and use the various properties and functions of Python’s sys module.
• Write programs that use various numeric and mathematical modules from Python’s standard
library.
• Write programs that use the various date and time modules from Python’s standard library.
Chapter 6: Classes in Python
• Understand the basic principles of an object-oriented programming language.
• Use the class keyword to define custom data types.
• Use properties and decorators as a Pythonic way of writing classes.
• Use Python’s special methods within a class definition to accomplish standard tasks.
• Use class variables as a way of providing shared access to instances of a class.
• Understand inheritance and polymorphism to take simplify class creation.
• Use various built-in functions to obtain information about the relationship between data types.
Chapter 7: Exceptions
• Understand and use the Python exception model.
• Use try and except as the basic exception handling clauses in Python.
• Understand and use various exceptions in the exception hierarchy.
• Raise exceptions within your code as indicators of errors happening when executing the code.
• Create and use user-defined exceptions within your code.
• Understand the assert keyword and its benefits when writing your code.
Chapter 8: Input and Output
• Use Python’s additional I/O capabilities beyond the input and print functions.
• Create and use data streams to read and write to files.
• Read and write to text files.
• Use bytes and bytearray data types to read and write binary files.
• Use the seek and tell methods to randomly access the stream contents.
• Use the os and os.path modules to work with files and directories.
Chapter 9: Data Structures
• Use list comprehensions as an alternative and concise way of creating lists.
• Use dictionary comprehensions as an alternative and concise way of creating dictionaries.
• Understand and use generators to retrieve large amounts of data without the overhead of storing
the data.
• Use generator expressions as an alternative and concise way of creating generators.
• Use the zip datatype to process parallel collections.
Chapter 10: Regular Expressions
• Use the re module to perform regular expression pattern matching.
• Understand and use character classes and quantifiers when building a regular expression.
• Use groups to apply quantifiers to a group within an expression.
• Use groups to capture and manipulate the text that a regular expression matches.
• Understand and use the various functions within the re module to operate on regular
expressions.
Chapter 11: JSON
• Understand what is JSON, and its syntax.
• Use the json module from the standard library to read and write JSON Data.
Chapter 12: Debugging
• Use the Python standard library’s pdb module to debug Python programs.
• Launch the debugger from an interactive Python shell.
• Learn and use the various debugger commands within the debugging process.
• Set breakpoints and evaluate the current context of the code being debugged.
Chapter 13: Assessments
Section 13.1: Assessments
Section 13.2: Summary
