An Introduction to Python

• Brief History
• Why Python
• Where to use

Beginning Python Basics

• The print statement
• Comments
• Python Data Structures & Data Types
• String Operations in Python
• Simple Input & Output
• Simple Output Formatting

Python Program Flow

• Indentation
• The If statement and its' related statement
• An example with if and it's related statement
• The while loop
• The for loop
• The range statement
• Break & Continue
• Assert
• Examples for looping

Functions & Modules

• Create your own functions
• Functions Parameters
• Variable Arguments
• Scope of a Function
• Function Documentation/Docstrings
• Lambda Functions & map
• An Exercise with functions
• Create a Module
• Standard Modules

Exceptions

• Errors
• Exception Handling with try
• Handling Multiple Exceptions
• Writing your own Exceptions

File Handling

• File Handling Modes
• Reading Files
• Writing & Appending to Files
• Handling File Exceptions
• The with statement

Classes In Python

• New Style Classes
• Variable Type
• Static Variable in class
• Creating Classes
• Instance Methods
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Encapsulation
• Scope and Visibility of Variables
• Exception Classes & Custom Exceptions

Regular Expressions

• Simple Character Matches
• Special Characters
• Character Classes
• Quantifiers
• The Dot Character
• Greedy Matches
• Grouping
• Matching at Beginning or End
• Match Objects
• Substituting
• Splitting a String
• Compiling Regular Expressions
• Flags

Data Structures

• List Comprehensions
• Nested List Comprehensions
• Dictionary Comprehensions
• Functions
• Default Parameters
• Variable Arguments
• Specialized Sorts
• Iterators
• Generators
• The Functions any and all
• The with Statement
• Data Compression
• Closer
• Decorator

Writing GUIs in Python

• Introduction
• Components and Events
• An Example GUI
• The root Component
• Adding a Button
• Entry Widgets
• Text Widgets
• Checkbuttons
• Radiobuttons
• Listboxes
• Frames
• Menus
• Binding Events to Widgets

Thread In Python

• Thread life Cycle
• Thread Definition
• Thread Implementation

Network Programming Introduction

• A Daytime Server
• Clients and Servers
• The Client Program
• The Server Program
• Recap
• An Evaluation Client and Server
• The Server Portion
• A Threaded Server

Python MySQL Database Access Introduction

• Installation
• DB Connection
• Creating DB Table
• INSERT, READ,UPDATE, DELETE operations
• COMMIT & ROLLBACK operation
• Handling Errors