Python Basics and Advanced

I. Python Basics

Chapter 1: Getting started with Python programming

1.1 Introduction to Python

1.1.1 Python features

1.1.2 Scope of python

1.1.3 Python products

1.1.4 Python in today's context

1.2 Python Download, Installation and Environment Setup

1.3 First python program execution "Hello World"

1.4 The world of programming

1.5 Python programming syntax

Chapter 2: Variables, keywords and Operators

2.1 Variables

2.1.1 Memory mapping of variables

2.1.2 Application memory

2.1.3 Variable nomenclature

2.1.3 Properties and scope of variables

2.2 Keywords in Python

2.3 Operators

2.3.1 Arithmetic operators

2.3.2 Operator precedance

2.3.3 Logical operators

2.3.4 Membership Operators

2.4 Basics I/O and Type casting

2.5 __builtins__ functions and getting help

Chapter 3: Control flow statements

3.1 Flow of program control

3.2 Decision making statements: if-elif-else

3.3 for loop

3.3.1 Making of 'for' loop

3.3.2 Repetition using for loop: range() function

3.3.3 Iteration using for loop

3.4 while loop

3.4.1 Making of 'for' loop

3.4.2 Infinite loop

3.5 Loop control keywords: break, continue, pass

Chapter 4: Numbers and Functions

4.1 Introduction to functions

4.1.1 Function definition and return

4.1.2 Function call and reuse

4.1.3 Function parameters

4.2 Function recipe and docstring

4.3 Programming with functions

4.4 Namespaces and scope of variable

4.5 Numbers - int, float, long, complex

Chapter 5: Strings

5.1 Introduction to Python 'string' data type

5.2 Properties of a string

5.3 String built-in functions

5.4 Programming with strings

5.5 String formatting

Chapter 6: Lists

6.1 Introduction to Python 'string' data type

6.2 Properties of a list

6.3 List built-in functions

6.4 Programming with lists

6.5 List comprehension

Chapter 7: Tuples, Dictionary and Sets

7.1 Tuples as Read only lists

7.2 Moving from list to dictionary

7.3 Dictionary built-in functions

7.4 Sets and sets properties

7.5 Set built-in functions

Chapter 8: Practice, Test & Revision

II. Advanced Python

Chapter 9: More of Python functions

9.1 Recursive functions

9.2 *args, **kwargs, argv

9.3 Modules and Packages

9.4 Iterators and Generators

9.5 Function decorators

Chapter 10: Object oriented programming with Python

10.1 OOPs concepts: Classes and objects

10.2 Making of a class and module namespace

10.3 Static and instance variables

10.4 Deep understanding of self and __init__()

10.5 Inheritance and Overriding

Chapter 11: Object oriented programming continued

11.1 Overloading functions

11.2 Operator overloading

11.3 Encapsulation: Hiding attributes

11.4 Understanding threads

11.5 Multithreading

Chapter 12: Exception Handling in Python

12.1 Understanding exceptions

12.2 try, except, else and finally

12.3 raising exceptions with: raise, assert

12.4 Creating your own exception classes

12.5 Logging and Debugging

Chapter 13: File handing - Part 1

13.1 Working with files

13.2 File objects and Modes of file operations

13.2 Reading, writing and use of 'with' keyword

13.3 read(), readline(), readlines(), seek(), tell() methods

13.4 Handling comma separated value files

13.5 CSV reading and writing with DictWriter

Chapter 14: File Handling - Part 2

14.1 Working with PDFs

14.2 JSON parsing

14.3 XML parsing with DOM and ElementTree

14.4 File compression - zipping and unzipping

14.5 Pickling

Chapter 15: Regular expression

15.1 Pattern matching

15.2 Meta characters for making patterns

15.3 re flags

15.4 Project 1: Pattern matching over files

15.5 Project 2: Handling error log and plotting error graphs

Chapter 16: Database connectivity and Python webpages

16.1 Working with MySQL database

16.2 Working with Sqlite3 database

16.3 Creating webpages with Python files & CGI

16.4 Web scrapping with urllib and Beautiful soup

16.5 Project 3: Web scrapping automation

Chapter 17: Socket programming

17.1 Introduction to sockets

17.2 Understanding the client-server architecture

17.4 Implementation of multithreading with sockets

17.4 Advanced GUI

17.5 Project 4: Chat application

Chapter 18: Email sending Automation

18.1 Understanding SMTP

18.2 Sending email with sendmail() function

18.3 Sending email using Gmail

18.4 Email sending with attachment and MIME

18.5 Project 5: Mass emailer