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Python Course Syllabus
Our Python course syllabus is framed by our Industry experts.This course is framed for grade 11 th students
Module 1: An Introduction to Python
Introduction about python
What can Python do?
Why Python?
Good to know
Python Syntax compared to other programming languages
Python Install
Module 2: Beginning Python Basics
The print statement
Comments
Python Data Structures & Data Types
String Operations in Python
Simple Input & Output
Simple Output Formatting
Operators in python
Module 3: Python Program Flow
Indentation
The If statement and its’ related statement
An example with if and it’s related statement
The while loop
The for loop
The range statement
Break &Continue
Assert
Examples for looping
Module 4: Functions& Modules
Create your own functions
Functions Parameters
Variable Arguments
Scope of a Function
Function Documentations
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Lambda Functions& map
n Exercise with functions
Create a Module
Standard Modules
Module 5: Exceptions Handling
Errors
Exception handling with try
handling Multiple Exceptions
Writing your own Exception
Module 6: File Handling
File handling Modes
Reading Files
Writing& Appending to Files
Handling File Exceptions
The with statement
Module 7: Classes In Python
New Style Classes
Creating Classes
Instance Methods
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Exception Classes & Custom Exceptions
Module 8: Generators and iterators
Iterators
Generators
The Functions any and all
With Statement
Data Compression
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Module 9: Data Structures
List Comprehensions
Nested List Comprehensions
Dictionary Comprehensions
Functions
Default Parameters
Variable Arguments
Specialized Sorts
Module 10: Collections
namedtuple()
deque
ChainMap
Counter
OrderedDict
defaultdict
UserDict
UserList
UserString
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What is Python?
Python is a popular programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum, and released in 1991.
It is used for:
web development (server-side),
software development,
mathematics,
system scripting.
What can Python do?
Python can be used on a server to create web applications.
Python can be used alongside software to create workflows.
Python can connect to database systems. It can also read and modify files.
Python can be used to handle big data and perform complex mathematics.
Python can be used for rapid prototyping, or for production-ready software development.
Why Python?
Python works on different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc).
Python has a simple syntax similar to the English language.
Python has syntax that allows developers to write programs with fewer lines than some other
programming languages.
Python runs on an interpreter system, meaning that code can be executed as soon as it is written. This
means that prototyping can be very quick.
Python can be treated in a procedural way, an object-oriented way or a functional way.
Good to know
The most recent major version of Python is Python 3, which we shall be using in this tutorial. However,
Python 2, although not being updated with anything other than security updates, is still quite popular.
In this tutorial Python will be written in a text editor. It is possible to write Python in an Integrated
Development Environment, such as Thonny, Pycharm, Netbeans or Eclipse which are particularly useful
when managing larger collections of Python files.
Python Syntax compared to other programming languages
Python was designed for readability, and has some similarities to the English language with influence from
mathematics.
Python uses new lines to complete a command, as opposed to other programming languages which often
use semicolons or parentheses.
Python relies on indentation, using whitespace, to define scope; such as the scope of loops, functions and
classes. Other programming languages often use curly-brackets for this purpose.
Example
print("Hello, World!")
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Python Install
Many PCs and Macs will have python already installed.
To check if you have python installed on a Windows PC, search in the start bar for Python or run the following on the Command Line
(cmd.exe):
C:\Users\Your Name>python --version
To check if you have python installed on a Linux or Mac, then on linux open the command line or on Mac open the Terminal and type:
python --version
If you find that you do not have Python installed on your computer, then you can download it for free from the following
website: https://www.python.org/
Python Quickstart
Python is an interpreted programming language, this means that as a developer you write Python (.py) files in a text editor and then put those
files into the python interpreter to be executed.
The way to run a python file is like this on the command line:
C:\Users\Your Name>python helloworld.py
Where "helloworld.py" is the name of your python file.
Let's write our first Python file, called helloworld.py, which can be done in any text editor.
helloworld.py
print("Hello, World!")
Simple as that. Save your file. Open your command line, navigate to the directory where you saved your file, and run:
C:\Users\Your Name>python helloworld.py
The output should read:
Hello, World!
Congratulations, you have written and executed your first Python program.
W3Schools' Python Editor
We have an online Python editor where you can execute your own Python code and see the result:
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Example
Try our online Python editor:
print("Hello, World!")
This editor will be used in the entire tutorial to demonstrate the different aspects of Python.
Python Version
To check the Python version of the editor, you can find it by importing the sys module:
Example
Check the Python version of the editor:
import sys
print(sys.version)
You will learn more about importing modules in our Python Modules chapter.
The Python Command Line
To test a short amount of code in python sometimes it is quickest and easiest not to write the code in a file. This is made possible because
Python can be run as a command line itself.
Type the following on the Windows, Mac or Linux command line:
C:\Users\Your Name>python
Or, if the "python" command did not work, you can try "py":
C:\Users\Your Name>py
From there you can write any python, including our hello world example from earlier in the tutorial:
C:\Users\Your Name>python
Python 3.6.4 (v3.6.4:d48eceb, Dec 19 2017, 06:04:45) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print("Hello, World!")
Which will write "Hello, World!" in the command line:
C:\Users\Your Name>python
Python 3.6.4 (v3.6.4:d48eceb, Dec 19 2017, 06:04:45) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print("Hello, World!")
Hello, World!
Whenever you are done in the python command line, you can simply type the following to quit the python command line interface:
exit()
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