Python

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Python Overview
• What is Python?
• History of Python
• Why Python?
• Versions of Python
• Applications of Python.

The Python Environment
• Installing Python and setting path
• Python Documentation
• Implementing Python(Python Editors and IDE’s)
• Basic Syntax
• Running a Python Script
• Python Scripts on UNIX/Windows/MAC

Getting Started
• Keywords, Datatypes
• Variables, Assigning values to variables
• Multiple assignments
• Space Indentation
• Comments
• print( ),type( ), id( ) functions
• Reading input : input( ) and raw_input() functions
• Type conversions
• Number systems representations and conversions

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

Operators
• Arithmetic Operators
* Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
* Assignment Operators
• Bitwise Operators
• Membership Operators
• Identity Operators.

Flow Control
• Conditional Statements (Simple if, if…else, if…elif…, elif ladder)
• pass statement in Python
• Looping Statements (while loop, while … else, for loop, infinite loop, nested loops)
• using break and continue inside a loop

Collections in Python
• Lists
• Creating a list
• Adding/deleting/updating list elements
• Indexing and Slicing
• Working with functions and methods
• Working with matrices
• List comprehension
• Tuples
• Creating tuple
• Adding/deleting/updating tuple elements
• Tuple indexing and slicing
• Working with tuple functions and methods

 Sets
• Set: what is Set, creating Set
• Set Operations : Union, Intersection, minus etc
• Working with set functions and methods

 Dictionary
• What is dict object, creating dict object
• Adding/deleting/updating dict elements
• Working with dictionary functions and methods

Functions
• Defining a function, Calling a function
• Passing parameters and returning values
• Default parameters
• Keyword parameters
• Variable parameters
• Call by reference
• Lambda functions in Python

Modular Programming in Python
• What is a module?
• Creating user defined module
• The import statement
• Module search path
• from … Import
• Module Aliases,dir() and help() functions
• Working with Standard modules(math, random, datetime,os and sys

Packages in Python
• What is a package?
• Creating user defined package
• Importing packages

File Handling
• Opening a file, Closing a file
• Writing data to files
• Reading a data from files
• tell(), seek() functions

OOP concepts
• About O-O programming
• Defining classes
• Creating object
• Class methods and data
• Static methods
• Private methods
• Constructors and Destructors(Garbage Collection in Python)
• Inheritance, Types of inheritance
• Polymorphism (overloading and overriding)
• Data Abstraction in Python

Errors and Exception Handling
• Syntactical, Runtime and Logical Errors
• What is Exception?
• Need of Exception handling
• Predefined Exceptions
• try, except, finally keywords
• Handling multiple exceptions
• Nested exceptions
• User-defined Exceptions

Multithreading in Python
• What is a Thread?
• Threading module
• Controlling thread execution
• Threads synchronization using locking mechanism

Regular Expressions
• What is regular expression?
• Wild card characters
• Using re module
• Grouping, match
• Search functions
• matching v/s searching
• sub() function, splitting a string
• Flags.

Database Access
• Basics of database(SQL and NoSQL databases)
• Connecting to a database
• Executing SQL queries
• Transaction management.

Advanced concepts in python
• Iterators
• Generators
• Closures
• Decorators

Advanced Modules
• Maths and science (Numpy, scipy, matplotlib),
• Data analysis (pandas),
• GUI programming (tkinter programming, pyGtk, PyQt)