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Introduction to Python Programming

• Running Python code
• Using Python Development Tools (IDEs and command line tools)
• Working with Python and iPython shells as well as iPython Notebook

Data Types and Operations

• Integers and floats
• Strings and bytes
• Tuples and lists
• Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
• Sets and frozen sets

Organizing and Distributing Code

• Creating modules and packages
• Distributing code to repositories

Object Oriented and Functional Programming

• Creating and using functions and classes
• Modifying functions and classes with decorators
• Introducing meta-classes

Error Handling and Testing

• Handling and raising exceptions
• Writing and executing tests (doc tests and unit tests)
• Checking code coverage by tests

Working with Files and Directories

• Accessing different types of files and file handling principles
• Creating, reading, updating and deleting files (including regular text files, csv, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files)
• Extracting data from text files using Regular Expressions
• Creating and deleting directories, listing and searching for files

Accessing Databases

• Selecting, inserting, updating and deleting data
• Generic database API based on SQLite 3, PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Using the Object Relational Mapper (SQLAlchemy)
• Working with NoSQL databases

Conquering The Web

• Retrieving web pages
• Parsing HTML and XML
• Filling web forms automatically
• Creating web applications in Python