Python for Beginners

Python Invented in Late 80s and early 90s by Guido Van Rossum
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Its Object Oriented Programming RAD Scripting Language Used at Google, Dropbox

Introduction

Features

Basics
Data Types

Operators

Expressions

Control Statements


User Defined Functions


Object Oriented Programming

Data Structures


Modules

I/O File Management

Pickle Exception Handling

Standard Libraries


Power of Python

Built in Functions

Decorators

In this chapter you will learn Features of python, How to work with editors to write scripting, Basics of Python like :

Explicit Line Joining Using the '\' operator

Escape Sequence, Indentation, Undefined Variable, Single Line Coding

Basic data types and operators

Arithmatic Operators (+, -, , /, *, //, %)

Bitwise Operators (<<, >>, &, |, ~, ^)

Relational Operators (<, >, <=, >=, ==, !=, <>,

Logical Operators (and, or, not)

Expressions:

Literal Expressions

Variable Expressions

Hybrid Expressions

Conditional

if


if – else


if – elif – else

Looping

while


while – else

for


for – else

and Other control statements

break and continue

Definition of Methods

Local/Global Variables

Arguments & Return Keyword/Default Parameters

Nested Function

Recursion

def keyword

method signature

Local and Global Variables

Methods:

No arguments

Arguments


Return Single Value

Return Multiple Value

Overloading

Methods:

No arguments

Arguments


Return Single Value

Return Multiple Value

Overloading

Class & Object


Object Methods


Self
Constructor (init)

Destructor(del)

Inheritance

Object Class

Method Overriding

·      List Introduction

·      Definition


·      Homogeneous List

·      Heterogeneous List

·      Accessing Elements of List 

·      List Definition


·      List Types

·      
List Element Methods

·      append

·       pop

·      insert

·      remove 

·      Access Methods

·      _ add _

·      extend

·      range

·      index

·      reverse

·      sort 

·      Tuple Definition

·      Tuple Element Access 

• Dictionary Introduction
• Accessing Elements
• Iterative Methods
• Dictionary Methods
• Set Introduction
• Set Methods 

·      Strings Introduction

·      Case Methods

• capitalize
• upper
• lower
• swapcase
• title

·      Traverse Methods

• Count
• Index
• Rindex
• Find
• rfind

·      Validation Methods

• Startswith
• Endswith
• Isalnum
• Isalpha
• Isdigit
• Isspace
• Isupper
• islower

• Split-Join Methods
• Split
• Rsplit
• Splitlines
• Join
• Partition
• rpartition

·      Manipulation Methods

• Justification Methods
• Ljust
• Rjust
• center
• Striping Methods
• Lstrip
• Rstrip
• strip
• replace
• zfill 

·      Strings Introduction

·      Case Methods

• capitalize
• upper
• lower
• swapcase
• title

·      Traverse Methods

• Count
• Index
• Rindex
• Find
• rfind

·      Validation Methods

• Startswith
• Endswith
• Isalnum
• Isalpha
• Isdigit
• Isspace
• Isupper
• islower

• Split-Join Methods
• Split
• Rsplit
• Splitlines
• Join
• Partition
• rpartition

·      Manipulation Methods

• Justification Methods
• Ljust
• Rjust
• center
• Striping Methods
• Lstrip
• Rstrip
• strip
• replace
• zfill 

Data Type Conversion


Indexing


Looping without index

Operators for Data Structures 

Introduction of Modules

Creating a Module

Importing Module

Using Module Attributes

File Input / Output Operations

File Management

Pickle 

Exceptions


try – except


try – except – else


try – except – else – finally

raise 

sys


os

platform

datetime

dateutil

random 

lambda


in line coding

assert


exec 

List Functions

Mathematical Functions

Special Functions 

Function Alias

Function as arguments

Returning function

A function being replaced by some other function having the same name

Writing your first decorator

Multiple Decorators 

Summarisation of the whole course and revision on what you have learnt throughout the course.