Intermediate Python Programming

Intermediate Python Programming Course Curriculum

Section 01: Python basic recap

• Variables and data types
• Data structures
• Set methods(add, copy, union, intersection, difference etc)
• Dict methods(keys, values, items, get, setDefault etc)
• Complex structures(list of lists, list of dicts, dict of lists etc)
• conditional statements
• Loops in python
• Functions in python
• exercise

Section 02: Deep dive into Loops

• Iterating through list,dictionaries, set
• Zip and enumerate
• List comprehension
• Nested loops
• Big O notation and space-time trade-off
• exercise

Section 03: Deep dive into functions

• Scope in python (local scope, global scope)
• Passing multiple arguments(*args, **kwargs)
• Returning multiple values
• Lambda functions
• Map, apply, filter,reduce
• callbacks
• Nested functions
• Recursion
• exercise

Section 04: OOP concepts

• What is Class
• Creating an empty Class in Python
• Creating an object
• Creating a class and object with class and instance attributes
• Attributes and methods
• Creating modules and importing them
• exercise

Section 05: Built-in modules

• Math module(pi, sqrt, pow, exp, log, Trigonometric functions)
• Re module(findall, search, split, sub)
• OS module(mkdir, chdir, getcwd,rmdir,listdir)
• random(choice, shuffle, random, randint,randrange)
• Time module(time, sleep, localtime, ctime,asctime)
• Collections module(namedtuple,OrderedDict,deque)
• Itertools module(chain.from_iterable,
• combinations,combinations_with_replacement,permutations)
• Exercise

Section 06: File and Exception Handling

• Reading from a file
• Writing to a file
• Common exceptions
• ZerodivisionError
• FileNotFoundError
• TypeError
• IndexingError
• Exercise

Section 07: Using python packages(Numpy)

• Packages vs modules
• Installing a python package
• Using the objects of the package
• Intro to numpy
• Creating arrays using numpy
• Exercise

Accreditation

All of our courses are fully accredited, providing you with up-to-date skills and knowledge and helping you to become more competent and effective in your chosen field.

Certification

Once you’ve successfully completed your Intermediate Python Programming course, you will immediately be sent a digital certificate. Also, you can have your printed certificate delivered by post (shipping cost £3.99). Our Intermediate Python Programming certifications have no expiry dates, although we do recommend that you renew them every 12 months.