Curso: Python Programming Fundamentals

Introduction to Python Programming

• Running Python code
• Using Python Development Tools (IDEs and command line tools)
• Working with Python and iPython shells as well as iPython Notebook

Data Types and Operations

• Integers and floats – probably not necessary
• Strings and bytes – probably not necessary
• Tuples and lists
• Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
• Sets and frozen sets

Organizing and Distributing Code

• Creating modules and packages
• Distributing code to repositories

Object Oriented and Functional Programming

• Creating and using functions and classes
• Modifying functions and classes with decorators
• Introducing meta-classes

Error Handling and Testing

• Handling and raising exceptions
• Writing and executing tests (doc tests and unit tests)
• Checking code coverage by tests

Working with Files and Directories

• Accessing different types of files and file handling principles
• Creating, reading, updating and deleting files (including regular text files, csv, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files)
• Extracting data from text files using Regular Expressions
• Creating and deleting directories, listing and searching for files