1. Basic Python Programming

This is a course for basic Python programming. The audience is those who want to understand the way in which an experienced Python programmer thinks, or those who want to be a Python expert.

In this course, you will be introduced to the most essential elements in the Python programming language. You will be given many examples to familiarize yourself to the practice of “one obvious way to do it”, and start to understand the rationale behind the formality. This course will lead your way to “import this”.

• 1.1. Start Running Python: Execution and Importation
  • 1.1.1. Running Python
  • 1.1.2. Interactive Interpreter
  • 1.1.3. Python Script
  • 1.1.4. Pythonic Code and PEP8
• 1.2. Package Installation
  • 1.2.1. Python Modules and PYTHONPATH
  • 1.2.2. Python Packages and Import Rules
  • 1.2.3. virtualenv, pip, and distribute
  • 1.2.4. Manual Installation
• 1.3. Input, Output, and String Processing
  • 1.3.1. Read and Write Files
  • 1.3.2. Stream I/O and Files
  • 1.3.3. String Formatting
  • 1.3.4. String Tokenization, Concatenation, and Other Processing
  • 1.3.5. String Templating
  • 1.3.6. Regular Expression Interface
• 1.4. Execution Control
  • 1.4.1. Functions
  • 1.4.2. Positional and Keyword Parameters
  • 1.4.3. Conditional Statements
  • 1.4.4. Looping
• 1.5. Containers
  • 1.5.1. Sequence: list and tuple
  • 1.5.2. Slicing
  • 1.5.3. List Comprehension
  • 1.5.4. Iterator
  • 1.5.5. Set
  • 1.5.6. Dictionary
    • 1.5.6.1. Dictionary for Switch-Case
  • 1.5.7. Make Your Own Data Structures: Collection ABCs
• 1.6. Object-Oriented Programming
  • 1.6.1. Organize Data with Functions
  • 1.6.2. Encapsulation
  • 1.6.3. @property
  • 1.6.4. Exploit Existing Types