Intensive Introduction to Python

Overview
As well as covering Python data types, operators, functions and objects, the course provides an overview of regular expressions, Python GUI application development and Python CGI programming.

Course Benefits
This course provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the popular Python scripting language.

Course Contents
Interpreted vs. compiled languages A brief history of Python Python - download and installation Working with Python from the command line Python Integrated Devlopment Environments (IDEs) Basic grammar and syntax

• basic I/O - print() and raw_input()
• comments
• variables and assignment
• operators
• basic data types - numbers, strings, lists, tuples and dictionaries
• code blocks and indentation
• if, elif and else
• iteration
  • for, in and range loops
  • while loops
• file manipulation - open() and file() functions
• errors and exceptions
• functions
• classes
• modules
• objects

Overview of client, web and network programming techniques

• regular expressions
• network programming
• multithreaded programming
• GUI programming
• web programming