Python Programming Inside Out. A Total Reference

History and features. Interactive vs Script mode. Lists, Tuples, Strings ,Set. while & for loop. Functions, Oops. GUI.

Created by: Prof . Mathew K K Kanhirathinkal Kurian
Object Oriented Programming in C++ Inside Out.

What Will I Learn?

• Students get an extensive and elaborate discussion of Python programming covering a variety of topics.
• General Introduction, history of Python, Python Features, Functional and structured programming approach, OOPs concept.
• Interactive mode programming using IDLE gui interpreter, Script mode programming using PyCharm IDE etc.
• Python Indentation concept instead of curly braces, Comments in Python, Python Variables, Constants and Literals.
• Python Identity Operators, Python Membership Operators. And numerous example programs from each area discussed.
• Python Data Types : Numbers, Lists, Tuples, Strings, Set, Dictionary etc. Lots of example program to elaborate these topics.
• Elaborate discussions of the functionality associated with each data type like slicing, updating, deleting, removing, looping through etc.
• Immutable data types like Tuples and mutable data type like Lists explained in great detail. Various examples follow in each data types.
• The while loop and for loop explained with the usage of the break and continue statements. Numerous examples discussed.
• The if, elif, etc discussed at length. The Types of Arguments explained well. Like Required Arguments, Keyword Arguments, Default Arguments, and Variable length Arguments .
• Concept of functions in Python. Defining a function using the def keyword explained in detail.
• The concept of Lambda / Anonymous function with numerous example program. The importance of lambda function.
• Python Matrix with examples. Python Comprehensions : Like List comprehension, Dictionary comprehension, set comprehension etc.
• File handling in Python. Reading the contents of file, writing to a file.
• Object Oriented Programming in Python. Overview of OOP terminology. Destroying objects (Garbage collection ) . Class Inheritance .
• Encapsulation in Python. Example programs. Polymorphic functions in Python.
• Database Applications in Python. MySQL server and connection to it through the python driver with examples.
• Exceptions in python. The try-except block . Python Network programming. Socket programming in Python.
• Python Socket vocabulary. Python socket module. Creating server programs and client programs. Creating a simple chat server.
• Multi threaded programming in Python. Threads an overview. Synchronizing and locking threads.
• Python XML processing. Parsing an XML file. SAX and DOM and minidom modules.
• Python GUI programming using Tkinter module. Creating various widgets to be used in GUI programs like label, button, message box etc.
• Turtle programming in Python. Creating numerous shapes like square, spiral, hexagon, star etc.
• Python Generators, Python Closures, Closure definition, Python Decorators, Property in Python. The concept of @property in Python.

Requirements

• Basic High school education is desirable. A good background in Maths and Science is good only , but not necessary. Python is designed for everybody who has a has a basic sense of logic.
• Prior knowledge in any programming language like C, C++, Java etc will be an added advantage. You will see how simple is Python in comparison with all these language.

Target audience

• Our target students are anybody who has a desire to study new technologies. Programmers from other languages like C++, Java etc prefer Python .
• Because Python is probably the best known language for learning machine learning and subsequently to enter the vast ocean of AI(Artificial Intelligence).
• For students doing a course in Science as well as Economics / Statistics and definitely in Engineering of any discipline the course will be greatly beneficial.