Python Grundlagen (2021-08-23 - 2021-08-25)

Training Information

Start

Monday 2021-08-23, 9:00

Course Description

tecTrain “Programmierung Grundlagen”

Material

• Python Topics

• Jupyter Notebook: HTML, download

• Github Repository

Log

Day 1

The basics, with a moderate amount of exercises.

• Python Installation

• Visual Studio Code for Python Programming

• Datatypes

  • Blahblah

  • Hello World

    • Hello world

    • Commandline arguments demo

  • Syntax etc.

  • Variables

  • Datatypes

  • Boolean

  • Compound Datatypes

  • Exercise: Exercise: Mixed List (Interactive Interpreter)

  • Exercise: Exercise: Mixed List (Executable Program)

  • Sequential Datatypes

  • Exercise: Exercise: Dictionary: Errors?

  • Exercise: Exercise: Digit to English Word (Solution)

  • References, (Im)mutability

• Control Flow and Iteration

  • The if Statement

  • Exercise: Exercise: Determine Maximum of Two Numbers

  • while Loops

  • Exercise: Exercise: Primeness (while) (Solution)

  • for Loops

  • The range Function

  • Exercise: Exercise: Primeness (for)

• Functions and Generators

  • Functions

  • Exercise: Exercise: Determine Maximum of Two Numbers (Function)

  • Exercise: Exercise: Primeness (Function)

  • Exercise: Exercise: Function: uniq()

Day 2

• Functions and Generators

  • Exercise: Exercise: Function: uniq()

  • Exercise: Exercise: Functions: join()

  • Iteration, Generators, And yield

  • Exercise: Exercise: Generator: uniq()

• File I/O and Strings

  • More About Strings

  • Miscellaneous String Methods

  • Exercise: Exercise: String (Right-Justify)

  • String Formatting

  • Encoding

  • File I/O

  • collections.namedtuple: see here

  • datetime

    • datetime: here

    • timedelta: here

    • datetime.strptime(): parsing strings

    

  • Exercise: Read a Cleaned-Up SAP Export

  • Modules

    • Modules and Packages

    • Quick run-through, modularizing the last exercise

  • JSON (Java Script Object Notation) quick demo (full JSON documentation see here)

Day 3

• Python Package Index

• Virtual Environments

• MQTT

• Databases

  • DBAPI 2

  • DBAPI 2: sqlite3

  • DB-API2 for MS-SQL

• Advanced Topics

  • Object Oriented Programming

  • Exception Handling

  • The unittest Module

• Miscellaneous Topics

  • Multithreading

  • OPC-UA, Python client

Live-Hacking (Jupyter Notebook)

• Jupyter Notebook (Übersicht)

• Jupyter Notebook

• Download

Links

• RRDtool (RRD = Round Robin Database)

  • Homepage and docs

  • PyPI package

Tutorials

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 4: Lists, Tuples, and Sets, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 5: Dictionaries - Working with Key-Value Pairs, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 7: Loops and Iterations - For/While Loops, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 8: Functions, by Corey Schafer

• 10 Python Tips and Tricks For Writing Better Code, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial: CSV Module - How to Read, Parse, and Write CSV Files, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial: Using Try/Except Blocks for Error Handling, by Corey Schafer

• Python 3.7: Encode String Method

• Python Tutorial: OS Module - Use Underlying Operating System Functionality, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial: Calling External Commands Using the Subprocess Module, by Corey Schafer

• Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python, by Raymond Hettinger

After Work Party

Bleiburg is not far away from Slovenia. As such, as a gift to myself after three work days, I had made plans to climb Grintovec (2558m) after an overnight stay at Češka Koča. See here for a tour description.