Python® basics

This Python® training course leads the students from the basics of writing and running Python® scripts to more advanced features such as file operations, regular expressions, error handling, system and network programming and the use of the extensive functionality of Python® modules.

All concepts are explained through hands-on examples and exercises, so students learn by coding in Python®. The training is intended for entry-level programmers or those moving to python from other programming languages.

Python® is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains, including telecom. Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl®, Ruby, Scheme or Java®.

• Learn how to read code written by others
• Discover how to compile simple programs in Python
• Understand the internal mechanisms of Python for working with variables, data structures, and functions

Introduction to Python

• Python modes
• Base syntax

Data types

• Numerical types of data and strings
• Data structures: lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets

Control flow program

• Mapping to the bool type
• Branching and loop operators

Functions

• Basics of functions
• Returning function values
• Standard and named function parameters
• List of function parameters

Introduction to object-oriented programming

• Classes and objects
• Constructor, fields, and methods
• Inheritance and polymorphism
• Exception-based error handling