BPLCK105B/205B Introduction to Python Programming

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Module - 1

Python Basics

Entering Expressions into the Interactive Shell, The Integer, Floating-Point, and String Data Types, String Concatenation and Replication, Storing Values in Variables, Your First Program, Dissecting Your Program,

Flow control

Boolean Values, Comparison Operators, Boolean Operators,Mixing Boolean and Comparison Operators, Elements of Flow Control, Program Execution, Flow Control Statements, Importing Modules,Ending a Program Early with sys.exit(),

Functions

def Statements with Parameters, Return Values and return Statements,The None Value, Keyword Arguments and print(), Local and Global Scope, The global Statement, Exception Handling, A Short Program: Guess the Number

Module - 2

Lists

The List Data Type, Working with Lists, Augmented Assignment Operators, Methods, Example Program: Magic 8 Ball with a List, List-like Types: Strings and Tuples, References,

Dictionaries and Structuring Data

The Dictionary Data Type, Pretty Printing, Using Data Structures to Model Real-World Things,

Module - 3

Manipulating Strings

Working with Strings, Useful String Methods, Project: Password Locker, Project: Adding Bullets to Wiki Markup

Reading and Writing Files

Files and File Paths, The os.path Module, The File Reading/Writing Process, Saving Variables with the shelve Module,Saving Variables with the print.format() Function, Project: Generating Random Quiz Files, Project: Multiclipboard,

Module - 4

Organizing Files

The shutil Module, Walking a Directory Tree, Compressing Files with the zipfile Module, Project: Renaming Files with American-Style Dates to European-Style Dates,Project: Backing Up a Folder into a ZIP File,

Debugging

Raising Exceptions, Getting the Traceback as a String, Assertions, Logging, IDLE‟s Debugger.

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Classes and objects

Programmer-defined types, Attributes, Rectangles, Instances as return values, Objects are mutable, Copying

Classes and functions

Time, Pure functions, Modifiers, Prototyping versus planning,

Classes and methods

Object-oriented features, Printing objects, Another example, A more complicated example,Theinit method, The __str__ method, Operator overloading, Type-based dispatch, Polymorphism, Interface and implementation,