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PyCamp Syllabus

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The outline of PyCamp. This organization is unique compared to other course outlines. Rather than learning the entire syntax of the Python language before applying it to problem solving, you will learn the Pythonic way of programming by examining solutions to common programming problems.

Contents

DAY ONE: Getting Started
DAY TWO: Core Language
DAY THREE: Everything Is an Object
DAY FOUR: A Tour of the Standard Library

DAY ONE: Getting Started

What Is Python? • What Is an Object? • Numbers • Sequences and Mappings • back to contents

What Is Python?

Introduction
The Interpreter
The Compiler

What Is an Object?

Values
Attributes
Types
ID

Numbers

Types
Identifiers and Binding
Operations

Sequences and Mappings

Strings
Tuples
Lists
Dictionaries

DAY TWO: Core Language

Controlling Your Program • Functions • Advanced Objects • back to contents

Controlling Your Program

White Space
Conditionals
Indefinite Loops
Iterators
Definite Loops
List Comprehensions

Functions

Anatomy of a Function
Namespaces
Scope
Modules
Builtins
Visibility
Lambda the Ultimate
Packages

Advanced Objects

Generators
Exceptions

DAY THREE: Everything Is an Object

Classes • Streams • back to contents

Classes

Anatomy of a Class
Subclasses
New Style Classes
Special Methods
Descriptors
Properties
Static Methods
Class Methods
Decorators

Streams

File Objects
Standard IO
Pipes
Command Line Arguments

DAY FOUR: A Tour of the Standard Library

Text Processing • Numeric Processing • Packaging • Debugging • back to contents

Text Processing

File Management
Regular Expressions
csv
glob
shutil

Numeric Processing

math
cmath
random
datetime
calendar
array

Packaging

distutils
setuptools
virtualenv

Debugging

pdb
IDEs