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Python Training Agenda

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By Vinay Keerthi

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Session 1:

Basics of Python

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• How to launch the interpreter from Windows or Linux

  • How to check if Python is installed correctly on the current system.

  • How to search for help.

  • How to read the documentation.

• The interpreter as a calculator

  • How to do simple calculations in the interpreter. Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and exponents.

  • How to store variables of different types. Integers, Floating point numbers, date and time, strings, directory paths.

  • How to read a text file.

  • How to write to a text file.

  • How to modify a text file.

• Datatypes

  • Integers

  • Floating Point Numbers

  • Strings

    String Formatters (%s %d %f %r) Escape Sequences (\n \b \\ etc)

  • Lists

  • Dictionaries

  • Boolean

    Boolean Logic

• Conditional Statements

  • If.. else

  • Nested If else

  • Single line if statements.

• Iteration

  • For loop

  • While loop

  • Nested Loops

  • The break statement

• Running Python from a *.py file.

  • Using an editor

  • The 'if __name__ == "__main__"' line

  • Indentation

  • Saving the File

• The os module

  • File Paths introduction

  • Linux vs Windows paths.

  • How to build paths.

    os.path.join()

  • How to check if a file exists

    os.path.isfile()

  • How to check if a folder exists

    os.path.isdir() os.path.exists()

  • How to get the basename of a file, given its path.

    os.path.basename() os.path.splitext()

  • How to get the current path.

    os.path.getcwd()

  • How to split paths

    os.path.split()

  • How to create a directory

    os.makedirs()

  • How to check which OS the program is running on.

    os.name()

  • How to check the modification time of a file.

    os.path.getmtime()

  • How to check the creation time of a path.

    os.path.getctime()

• The datetime module

  • How to get the current date and time.

    datetime.datetime.now()

  • How to get the current time

    datetime.datetime.now().time()

  • How to get the current date

    datetime.datetime.now().date()

  • How to calculate the difference between two dates.

    datetime.timedelta(days, seconds, microseconds)

  • How to get a particular date or time

    datetime.date(yyy, mm, dd) datetime.datetime.now().date() + datetime.timedelta(days=30)

  • How to read date/time from a string.

    datetime.datetime.strptime() datetime.date.strptime() datetime.time.strptime()

  • How to print time in a specific format.

    datetime.datetime.strftime() datetime.date.strftime() datetime.time.strftime()

• The csv module

  • How to read a csv file

  • How to write to a csv file.

  • How to find a particular row in a csv file.

  • How to modify a csv file.

• Reading User Input

  • input("> ")

• Exercises

  • How to ask a user for the information for several people and write that to a file.

    First name Last Name Date of Birth

  • Then it should store the above information and the age to a file: "infodump.csv"

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Session 2:

Intermediate Python

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• Functions

  • Why do we use functions?

  • Reusing Code

  • import module

  • from module import something

  • __init__.py file

  • os.path.append()

• Reading User Input

  • The argparse library

• Writing your first function

  • How to write a function to create a series of folders based on some input. def create_function(path, template_number = [0, 1, 2, 3])

  • Default values to function arguments.

  • Common mistakes

  • Why is def my_funct(a, b=10) a bad idea?

• Recursive Functions

  • The search algorithm

  • The sort algorithm

• The shutil module

  • How to copy a file

  • How to move a file

  • How to copy an entire directory and its contents

  • How to move an entire directory and its contents

• Exercises

  • How to find files in a directory when you know a part of their name and to copy those files into another directory.

  • How to open files which might have some text and copy those files into another directory.

  • How to write the file data for the above exercises into a csv file which has the modification time, the file name and file paths into a csv.

  • Writing a program that does matrix multiplication.

  • Writing a program that calculates the factorial of a number.

  • Writing a program that calculates the value of Pi to a certain decimal and writes it to a file.

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Session 3

Advanced Python

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• Modules that come in handy

  • pandas

  • numpy

  • matplotlib

  • scipy

  • PIL

  • xlsxwriter

  • xlrd

  • multiprocessing

• Exercises

  • Making a time sheet

  • Making a balance sheet

  • Plotting balance sheet

  • Plotting time sheet as a barchart

  • Plotting a x-bar r Control Chart for a part.

  • Saving results to an excel file.

  • Using Numpy, scipy.

• Making your own modules

  • Version control

  • Sharing code

  • Good programming principles