Syllabus

• Introduction
• Functions, Variables
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Exceptions
• Unit Tests
• Libraries
• File I/O
• Regular Expressions
• Classes
• Conclusion
• [Notes to Self]
  • Additional Ideas for Exercises
  • Not Covered

Introduction

• file explorer
• terminal window
• text editor
• interpreter

Functions, Variables

• functions, arguments (positional, named), return values [None?]
  • def, return
• comments
• variables, types
  • =
  • str, int, float, bool
  • str.*
• global variables
  • global
• type hints?

Conditionals

• conditionals, Boolean expressions
  • if, elif, else
  • or, and, not
  • <, >, ==, !=, <=, >=
• sequences
  • list, dict [for looking up values from keys], len [loops instead?], range, tuple, set?
• match

Loops

• loops [over list and dict]
  • while, for
• None
• break, continue
• list/dict comprehensions
• .sort? lambda function for key:?

Exceptions

• try, except, else, finally [maybe in file I/O?]
• pass
• raise

Unit Tests

• assert
• debugging

Libraries

• modules
• packages
• import
• random, statistics, sys [command-line args], requests [APIs, HTTP status codes]
• packages with index.py

File I/O

• os
• csv

Regular Expressions

• re

Classes

• classes, objects/instances, methods
• class
• inheritance, multiple inheritance
• properties
• decorators

Conclusion

[Notes to Self]

Additional Ideas for Exercises

• implement stack
• implement queue
• ord, chr

Not Covered

• bitwise operators
• generators, yield
• complex, bytes
• args, kwargs