Certified Python Developer

Introduction

• Need and evolution of Python
• Features of Python
• The Prompt
• Editor and source file
• Translation and executable

Installation

• Windows and Linux installation

Language Basics

• Language elements (constants, numbers and strings)
• Strings types (single quotes, double quotes and triple quotes)
• Escape Sequence, string concatenation and format method
• Variables naming, types and objects
• Indentation, logical and physical lines

Operators and Expressions

• Operators and Expressions
• Evaluation Order and Associativity

Control Flow

• The if statement
• The while statement
• The for loop
• The break and continue statement

Functions

• Function parameters and local variables
• Using global and nonlocal statement
• Default Argument values and keyword arguments
• VarArgs and keyword-only parameters
• The return statement
• DocStrings and annotations

Modules

• Byte-compiled .pyc files
• The from ..import ..statement
• A module’s __name__ and custom modules
• The dir function and packages

Data Structures

• List
• Tuple
• Dictionary
• Sequences
• Set

Object Oriented Programming

• The self
• Classes
• Object Methods and the __init__ method
• Class And Object Variables
• Inheritance

Input Output

• User input
• Files I/O
• Pickle

Exceptions

• Errors and exceptions
• Handling and raising Exceptions
• Try .Finally and the with statement

Standard Library

• sys module
• logging module
• urllib and json modules