Introduction

• Why python?
• Installing Python and versions
• Interactive mode, creating and running programs
• Blocks, Indentation, lines and commenting

Input/Output and assigment

• Printing
• Input strings and numbers
• Varaible declaration and assignment
• Operators
• Expression and Code evaluation
• Error messages

Flow Control Loops and decision making

• While loop
• For loop
• if, else, elseif
• exit, break

Built in Data-Types

• Strings and characters
• Lists
• Tuples
• Dictionaries
• Files

Functions

• Function declaration
• Basic function
• Pass by value
• Basic template

Error Handling

• Except
• Try, Except and raise exceptions

Basic Classes and instances

• Defining a class, basic class
• Instance
• Class Data
• Properties

Debugging

• Debugging

Advanced Python

Classes and Objects detailed

• Classes detailed
• Constructors
• Generators
• Iterators
• Decorators

Regular Expressions

• Defining regular expressions
• Compiling regular expressions
• Using regular expressions
• Match and find
• Examples

Networking, DB and CGI

• Networking, telnet and ssh

Parsing

• Special purpose parsers
• Writing a recursive descent parser by hand
• Parsing comma delimited lines
• Parsing functors
• Parsing names, phone numbers, etc
• XML parsing

Multithreading

• Multithreading and examples

Logging and debugging again

• Logging and debugging examples