Course Summary
Intro to Python course is a gentle introduction to programming in general using Python programming language. It is designed for non-programmers
Python is favored by first-time programmers because it presents engineering concepts in straight-forward, clear language, while, quietly and behind-the-scenes, it takes care of the difficult, tedious and error-prone details that present the major obstacles to writing a program in older languages. This is a hands-on training.Duration
2 days.
Audience
Additional Notes
About Your Instructor
Marilyn Davis earned a Ph.D. in Radio Astronomy, and M.A. in Applied
Physics, from UCSD; and a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Denver
University. Computer programming captured her imagination and she has
made significant contributions in scientific, statistical, operations
research, test-development and groupware applications. Teaching has
always been a favorite activity. She has been teaching C Programming
at UCSC-Extension for 15 years. When she met Python, for 5 years.
Marilyn specializes in Python training, she has taught Python for Google, Nokia, Cisco, VMware and more. Even the marketing department at Google took a class.
After teaching C for 14 years, Marilyn met Python and immediately recognized this new language as a big boon to software engineering. Engineers typically claim a 9-fold increase in productivity over C/C++ with significant improvements in readability and reliability.
Marilyn's Talk on Why Python
Marilyn's Google Tech Talk
Some Python Integrated Development Environments: Video of Marilyn Davis' discussion on Emacs at the Bay Area Python Interest Group.
About the Platform
This course can be taught on most major operating systems, which support Python, such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc.
Trademarks
"Python" is a registered trademark of the Python Software Foundation. All other marks are the properties of their respective owners.
Outline
Python Language
- Hardware and Software
- Binary Counting
- Machine Code
- Compilers and Interpreters
- Python
- Writing to stdout: print
- Literals (Strings) and Numbers
- Operators: + * =
Input
- Reading from stdin
- Reading a string
- Reading a number
- Handling errors
- Modulo operator
Flow
- if/elif/else
- while/break/continue/else
- operators
Functions
- Functions
Importing
- import
- random Module
- math Module
str and list
- Strings - str
- Lists - list
Iterating
- for and range
Sequences
- sequences
- enumerate
- indexing
Files
- File I/O
Re-Use
- Importing Your Own Module
Classes
- Classes
Inheritance
- Inheritance
