• Introduction
• Understanding the Open source model.
• Installation of python in Linux/windows.

Understanding Interpreters

• ipython
• bpython
• Getting started with Python.
• Getting to understand Help.

Exploring the objects.

• Setting up the IDE and various IDEs.
• Setting up using the PEP-8 .
• Tabs or spaces.
• Maximum line length.
• Blank lines.
• Source file Encoding.

Creating the first python program.

• Understanding sha-bang.
• Understanding the .py extension.
• How to run the python programs.

Types and Operators

• Introduction to data types.
• Type casting in python.
• Various ways of printing.
• Boolean operators.
• Playing with numbers.
• Playing with strings.
• String quotes.
• Raw strings.
• Docstring & comments.
• Accepting inputs.
• Control statements

Conditional statements

• Introduction
• Boolean expressions
• Logical Operators
• Using If condition
• Pass
• Applying PEP-8 standards.

Looping statements

• for
• while
• range
• break
• continue

Data Structures

• What are lists?
• Mutable lists.
• In operator.
• Traversing a list.
• List operations.
• Converting a list to string.
• Converting a string to list.
• Aliasing in lists.
• Functions in lists.

Tuples

• What is tuples.
• Indexing in tuples.
• Slicing in tuples.
• Immutable tuples.
• Packing and unpacking.
• Lists and tuples.
• Functions in tuples.

Dictionaries

• What are dictionaries?
• Keys and values.
• In operator.
• Looping in dictionaries.
• Lookups in dictionaries.
• Dictionaries and tuples.
• Functions in dictionaries.
• Dictionaries vs sets.

Functions

• Function basics
• Scope rules in functions
• Global scope.
• Local scope.

Understanding the return keyword.

• Argument passing
• Default argument list.
• Keyword arguments.
• Understanding the docstrings.
• List comprehensions.
• Lambda, map, filters.
• Understanding the closures.

MODULES

• What are modules?
• Understanding the namespaces.
• Various ways of importing.
• “reload” operation.
• Understanding about sys.path
• dir () function.
• understand the __main__ and __name__operation.
• Installation of a module.
• Understanding the virtualenv.
• Packaging a module.

FILES

• Fancier Output Formatting
• Reading and writing files
• Methods of File Objects
• * Reading
• * Writing
• * Modify
• Buffering in files.
• Parsing a xml files.
• Parsing a xls files.

Pickles

• Output using Pickle
• Introduction to subprocess, os

EXCEPTIONS

• What are exceptions?
• Simulating errors.
• Various types of exceptions.
• exception handling – try,except,else,finally
• trapping errors.
• raising exceptions.
• Customized exceptions.
• Ø REGULAR EXPRESSION
• Understanding the regular expressions.
• Getting started.
• Compiling a pattern.
• Flags – ignorecase, dotall
• Working with multiple flags.
• Search vs match.
• Raw string notations.
• Special characters
• Globbling characters
• Anchors
• Character sets
• Grouping

DEBUGGING

• Introduction to debugging.
• Debugging using IDE.
• Various modes to get to pdb.
• Script mode, Enhanced script mode.
• Post mortem mode.
• Run mode.
• Trace mode.
• Playing with the trace mode.
• listing
• step, next
• continue, break
• printing variables
• assigning values
• Restart and return.
• Where, stacks, breakpoints.
• repeat

LOGGING

• Understanding logging.
• When to use logging.
• Understanding the log levels.
• Understanding stream handling using Basic
• Config
• Understanding logger.
• Understanding handlers.
• Understanding Formatters.
• Understanding filters.
• Demo: Playing with the syslog handlers.
• Demo: Playing with the Stream handlers.
• Demo: Playing with the File handlers.
• CLASSES
• OOP: what is object oriented programming.
• Understanding the classes in python.
• Lets create a bank account.
• Using the class statement
• Methods in classes.
• Constructor.
• Magic methods.
• Understanding Inheritance.
• Understanding Polymorphism.
• Understanding Encapsulation.
• Operator overloading.

SOCKET PROGRAMMING

• Understanding basics
• Protocols – udp & tcp.
• Working with sockets
• How to connect to server.
• Connect on port.
• Sending data.
• Receiving data.
• How to close the socket.
• Programming a socket server
• Bind a socket.
• Listen to incoming connections.
• Accept connections.

Live server

• Handing connections.
• Thread class
• Thread library
• Thread pool
• Task thread
• Multiprocessing
• Demo: common chat application.
• Demo: FAQ chat application.
• Demo – Port scanning software.

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