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Course Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Python

• Introduction
• Python learning tips
• Install Python 3.6 on Mac
• Install Python on Windows
• Your first Python code!

Chapter 2: Data types and variables

• Data Types: string and int + comments
• Intro to Variables and Floats
• Why so many programming languages?
• Comments and variables - round two!!
• Variables – behind the scenes
• Mixing the data types string and int

Chapter 3: Learn Python while Drawing

• Intro to drawing with Python
• IDEs Explained
• Python Loops Introduction
• Python Loops with range()
• Python drawing with loops
• Python conditional statements – part 1
• Python operators
• Drawing with loops and conditionals – part 1
• Drawing with loops and conditionals – part 2

Chapter 4: Python collections

• Python history and Philosophy
• Python List - introduction
• Python List - reverse and count functions
• Python List - len function and del
• Tuples
• Python Sequences Overview and Review
• Python Dictionary / Maps continued
• Python Dictionary / Maps – updating, inserting and deleting

Chapter 5: Functions and loops

• Python PEP 8
• Input function
• While loops and infinite loops
• Nerd words: keywords, syntax, statements, expressions
• Functions, creating, calling and indents
• Functions, simple game and flow control
• Functions, arguments / parameters and return values
• Function arguments and variable scope
• Functions – multiple parameters
• Flow control with elif and else
• Function in functions and type conversion

Chapter 6: Treasure hunt game

• Treasure Hunt Game – create function skeletons
• Treasure Hunt Game – docstring
• Treasure Hunt Game – function returns
• Treasure Hunt Game – enter_cave function
• Treasure Hunt Game – main_loop

Chapter 7: Python OOP

• OOP basic concepts
• Creating our first class
• OOP - methods and init
• OOP - tkinter - basic gui and objects
• OOP - tkinter gui with an image
• MyDoctor - class skeleton
• MyDoctor - instantiate the class
• MyDoctor - nerd class details
• MyDoctor - docstring and __doc__
• Why write Object Oriented Python Code?
• OO - inheritance basics
• OO overriding __str__ special method
• Method and function default values
• Creating and using Modules

Chapter 8: Files and Exceptions

• Opening Files with Python
• Opening Files - creating functions
• Opening Files - creating a class
• Opening Files - exceptions
• Opening Files - writing files
• Advanced exceptions / error handling
• Reading files line by line
• Searching files - simple line search
• Searching files - regular expressions