Advanced Python 3 Programming Training

Advanced Python Concepts

• Lambda functions
• Advanced list comprehensions
• Exercise – rolling 5 dice
• Collections module
• Exercise – creating a defaultdict
• Exercise – creating a OrderdDict
• Exercise – creating a counter
• Exercise – working with a deque
• Mapping and filtering
• Mutable and immutable built-in objects
• Sorting
• Exercise – converting list.sort() to sorted (iterable)
• Unpacking sequences in functions calls
• Exercise – converting a string to a datetime.date object
• Modules and packages

Working With Data

• Relational databases
• Exercise – querying a SQLite database
• Exercise – inserting file dat into ad atabase
• CSV
• Exercise – comparing data in a CSV file
• Getting data from the web
• Exercise – requests and beautiful soup
• JSON
• Exercise – using JSON to print course data

Testing And Debugging

• Testing for performance
• The unittest module
• Exercise – fixing functions

Classes And Objects

• Attributes
• Behaviors
• Classes vs objects
• Attributes and methods
• Exercise – adding a roll() method to die
• Private attributes
• Properties
• Exercise – properties
• Documenting classes
• Exercise – documenting the die class
• Inheritance
• Exercise – extending the die class
• Exercise – extending the roll() method
• Static methods
• Class attributes and methods
• Abstract classes and methods
• Understanding decorators