Audience
This is an advanced Python course suitable for people who already have Python programming background

Objectives

• To master the rich set of Python libraries and modules.
• Use Object Oriented programming techniques

Course format

• Duration of the course is 24-32 academic hours. (Usually 3-4 days).
• The course includes approximately 40% hands on lab work.
• In the 4 day long version we allocate more time for exercises and have more time for individual help.

Prerequisite

• Beginner Python course
• Experience with the basics of Python

Syllabus

• Advanced uses of built-in data types (including slices on sequences)
• Functional programming (lambda, map, reduce, filter, zip)
• Comprehensions (list, dictionary, and set)
• Objects in Python
• Classes
• Instances
• Scoping issues
• Class methods
• Instance methods
• Properties
• Overloading (with and without the operator module)
• Iterators (including sorted and reversed, and use of itertools)
• Generators (including generator comprehensions and pipelines)
• Decorators
• Unit Test Framework (brief introduction)
• The "with" statement
• Optimizing Python code
• Design patterns
• Forks to processes and threads
• Networking, Servers & Clients - time permitting
• Twisted Python
• ctypes
• Web development using WSGI
• Web development using Flask