Mastering Python Programming
Course Duration
5 Days
Audience
Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course. Students with no prior Python experience are welcome; prior programming experience in any language is helpful.
Course Description
Mastering Python Programming is an introductory and beyond-level practical, hands-on Python training course that leads the student from the basics of writing and running Python scripts to more advanced features such as file operations, regular expressions, working with binary data, and using the extensive functionality of Python modules. Extra emphasis is placed on features unique to Python, such as tuples, array slices, and output formatting. This comprehensive, practical course provides an in-depth exploration of working with the programming language, not an academic overview of syntax and grammar. Students will immediately be able to use Python to complete tasks in the real world.
Learning Objectives
- Write and run Python scripts using core language features and best practices
- Work with Python data structures including lists, dictionaries, sets, and tuples
- Control program flow with conditionals, loops, functions, and error handling
- Read and write files, interact with file systems, and handle binary data
- Build applications using modules, packages, regular expressions, and network programming
- Apply Python's unique features such as array slices, output formatting, and sorting
Course Outline
- 1. An Overview of Python
- 2. The Python Environment
- 3. Getting Started
- 4. Flow Control
- 5. Array types
- 6. Working with files
- 7. Dictionaries and Sets
- 8. Functions
- 9. Sorting
- 10. Errors and Exception Handling
- 11. Modules and Packages
- 12. Classes
- 13. Regular Expressions
- 14. The standard library
- 15. Dates and times
- 16. Working with the file system
- 17. Advanced data handling
- 18. Network programming
- 19. Writing real-life applications