Python - Basics

Inter-company training

Duration

 3,00 day(s)

Language(s) of service

EN FR

Who is organizing this training?

We enhance both individual development and efficiency by sharing the IT expertise and managerial experience of our instructors. We offer over 300 courses in French and English at our center in Capellen. These courses focus on infrastructure, development, project management, governance, and soft skills.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must know and master a structured programming language like C, C++, Java.

Goals

This new three days training module lets the trainees know about the potential of Python as a programming language. Open to people who already know about any structured language (like C, C++ or Java), this course teaches how de design Python scripts, perform data treatments and how to maintain a Python script collection.

Contents

Module 1: Python Overview

  • Python History
  • Available IDE (s)

Module 2: Python object types

  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Containers (Tuples, Lists, Dictionaries, Set)
  • Type properties

Module 3: Good practices

  • Writing rules, naming
  • Annotations
  • Doc strings
  • Comments
  • Structuring a Python file

Module  4: The instructions

  • Execution of a Python program, LGI rule
  • Sequential, conditional, loop programming
  • Definition and call of functions
  • Functions: definition / call / parameter management /returned values

Module 5: Error handling

  • Exceptions, mechanism of implementation
  • The traceback

Module 6: The standard Python library

  • The built-in functions, and those on the containers: map, filter, zip
  • The sys modules, os
  • The datetime, time modules

Module  7: Object-Oriented Programming

  • Classes
  • The object, instance of a class
  • The class and instance attributes
  • The structure of a Python object (functions dir, vars, the variable __dict__ functions getattr, setattr, delattr,  __slots__ interest )
  • Simple, multiple inheritance

Mode of organisation

Classroom Courses

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