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Introduction to Python Programming

  • Executing Python code
  • Utilising Python development environments, including IDEs and command-line interfaces
  • Interacting with Python and iPython shells, as well as iPython Notebook

Data Types and Operations

  • Integers and floating-point numbers – potentially unnecessary
  • Strings and byte sequences – potentially unnecessary
  • Tuples and lists
  • Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
  • Sets and frozen sets

Organising and Distributing Code

  • Building modules and packages
  • Publishing code to repositories

Object-Oriented and Functional Programming

  • Defining and applying functions and classes
  • Extending function and class behaviour using decorators
  • An introduction to metaclasses

Error Handling and Testing

  • Catching and raising exceptions
  • Developing and running tests, including doc tests and unit tests
  • Assessing code coverage through testing

File and Directory Management

  • Accessing various file formats and understanding file handling principles
  • Creating, reading, updating, and deleting files, covering regular text files, CSVs, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents
  • Extracting data from text files using Regular Expressions
  • Creating and removing directories, as well as listing and locating files

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 14 Hours

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