Python from Scratch Syllabus

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def main():
    print("main: getting started")

Note: This syllabus is only partially tested

Topic 1 - Variables & Functions, intro to style:

• Variables:
  • numbers/strings(the need for the \ escape, use doublequotes)
  • “constants”
• print() and type()
• Functions(/methods)
• Style:
  • “write for humans, not computers”
  • Snake casing vs. Camel casing
  • A little about spacing

Topic 2 - Functions Inception, Loop Intro:

• Functions calling functions, more on isolation (variable scope)
• Intro to loops - printing, counting, iterating

Topic 3 - Veracity and Fake Truth:

• Intro to Booleans
• Basic conditions / Branching
• Conditionally calling two different functions

Topic 4 - Lists and Tuples:

• lists (arrays)
• tuples
• Loops (for/while, range)
• Practical: Looping with arrays

Topic 5 - More Serious Loops & Modules:

• Using a loop and a conditional
• More advanced conditionals
• Importing modules, batteries are included, dir/help

Topic 6 - Dict and Set (+recursion):

• Dictionaries (aka hashes)
• Sets (dictionaries without values)
• Intro to recursion is an intro to recursion

Topic 7 - Getting Modular:

• Modules
• Our own imports

Topic 8 - Compact Pythonisms:

• Comprehensions, lambdas-as-short-functions
• Pair Arrays & Dicts
• Slices

Topic 9 - IO and Structure:

• Reading and Writing Files
• …CSVs
• …JSON (maybe pickle)

Topic 10 - Object Basics and Class:

• Classes (as multifunction-bundles)
• Enough OOP to get around

Topic 11 - PyPy/pip and Drawing:

• Introduction to pip / PyPy (and we’ll only use virtualenvs)
• turtle* and PIL(low)
  • (turtle if the editor upgrades work)

Topic 12 - Your first webapp:

• Flask and your first webapp