Course Detail

Course Description

Python Overview:

• What is Python?
• The Birth of Python
• History of Python
• Features of Python
• Versions of Python

The Python Environment:

• Installation of Python
• Python Documentation
• Python Editors and Ides
• Basic Syntax
• Running a Python Script
• Python Scripts on UNIX/Windows

Getting Started:

• Keywords
• Data Types
• Variables
• Naming Conventions
• Print( )
• Type( )
• Id( ) Functions
• Input( )
• Raw_input() functions
• Conversion functions
• Del Keyword

String Handling:

• What is String?
• Single-quoted string literals
• Triple-quoted string literals
• String Indexing
• String Slicing
• Working with String Functions
• Working with String Methods

Operators:

• Arithmetic Operators
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Short Hand Assignment Operators
• Bitwise Operators
• Membership Operators
• Identity Operators

Flow Control:

• • About Flow Control
  • Conditional Statements (Simple if, if…else,
  • if…elif…)
  • Looping Statements (while loop, while … else,
  • for loop, infinite loop, nested loops)
  • Break
  • Continue

Pass

Sequences:

• About Sequences
• Lists
• Tuples
• Indexing and Slicing
• Iterating through a sequence
• Functions for all sequences
• Operators and keywords for sequences
• The xrange( ) function
• Nested sequences
• List comprehensions

Dictionaries and Sets:

• About Dictionaries
• When to use dictionaries
• Creating Dictionaries
• Getting dictionary values
• Iterating through a dictionary
• Reading file data into a dictionary
• Counting with dictionaries
• About sets
• Creating sets
• working with sets
• Working with Directories

Functions:

• Defining a function
• Calling a function
• Function Parameters
• Returning Values
• Variables scope
• Call by value
• Call by reference
• Passing collections to a function
• Passing functions to function
• Lamda function

Modules:

• What is a module?
• Creating user defined module
• Setting path
• The import statement
• Module search path
• From … Import
• Module Aliases
• Dir function
• Working with Standard modules (Math,
  Random, Date and time, String…)

Errors and Exception Handling:

• Syntax Errors
• What is Exception?
• Need of Exception handling
• Predefined Exceptions
• Predefined Exceptions Hierarchy
• Except
• Try
• Finally clause
• Handling Multiple Exceptions
• User defined Exceptions
• Raise
• Assert statements

File Handling:

• Opening a file
• Closing a file
• Writing data to files
• Reading a data from files
• Tell()
• Seek() functions

OOPs concepts:

• About OO programming
• Defining Classes
• Creating object
• Class methods and data
• Static methods
• Private methods
• Constructors
• Destructors
• Inheritance
• Types of inheritances
• Polymorphism (over loading & over riding)
• Data hiding

Regular Expressions:

• What is regular expression?
• Wild card characters
• Forming regular expressions
• Character classes
• Quantifiers
• Greedy matches
• Grouping
• Match
• Search functions
• Matching v/s searching
• Sub function splitting a string
• Replacing text
• Flags

Multi-Threading:

• Defining a thread
• Starting a thread
• Threading module
• Threads synchronization
• Multithreaded priority queue
  Database Access:

   

  • Basics of database
  • Connections
  • Executing queries
  • Transaction management

Advanced concepts in python:

• Iterators
• Generators
• closure
• decorators

Advanced Modules:

• CGI Programming.
• Network Programming. (Socket module,
• Client and server)
• Sending Email using SMTP
• Web scraping (Beautiful soup, Python web,
  Mechanize)
• GUI programming (tkinter programming,
  pyGtk, PyQt)