• created by: Sudip Ghimire
• URL: https://www.sudipghimire.com.np
• GitHub: https://github.com/ghimiresdp

Python Notes

A repository for Python course notes, examples, and lab exercises targeted to my students and interns.

You can clone or fork the repository and review the course contents, examples, and attend exercises.

Course Difficulty Level:

• Chapter 1 - 10: Easy
• Chapter 11 - 20: Medium

Course Contents (Links will be updated accordingly)

1. Fundamentals of Python

   • Introduction to Python
   • Python Environment Setup, IDE Setup
   • Hello World in Python
   • Running Python Programs
   • comments and documentation
     • Single Line Comments
     • inline Comments
     • Multiline Comments
     • Docstrings
   • indentation
   • Chapter 1 Quiz

2. Variables, basic data type and operations

   • Variables, constants, and keywords
   • Numeric Data Types
   • Strings
   • String Formatting
   • Basic Operations
   • Type Hinting in Python (only for python 3.6 and later)
   • Type Conversion / Typecasting
   • Chapter 2 Quiz

3. Advanced Data Types

   • List
   • Tuple
   • Dictionary
   • Set

4. Decision Making

   • if statement
   • if else statement
   • if elif else statement
   • the match statement
   • ternary operators
   • Nested conditions

5. Loops, Pattern Generation, and Comprehension

   • While Loop
   • For Loop
     • the enumerate() function
     • the zip() function
   • break, continue, and pass statements
   • Pattern Generation
   • Comprehensions

6. Functions

   • Introduction to Functions
     • Defining a function
     • Calling a function
     • the return statement
     • the pass statement
     • Local Variables and Global variables
   • default arguments
   • arguments and keyword arguments
   • Recursive Functions
   • Lambda functions

7. Classes

   • Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
     • Class
     • Class attributes, methods, and the self parameter
     • the Constructor method
     • built-in class attributes
     • object
   • Encapsulation in python ( _ , __ in identifier)
     • getters and setters
   • Operator Overloading
   • Class methods and Static methods
   • Inheritance and Polymorphism
     • Parent Class
     • Child Class
     • super() function
     • Mixins

8. Python Modules and packages

   • Introduction to modular programming
   • __init__.py file
   • An example of modular python program | importing the module
   • from keyword
   • datetime module
   • random module
   • json module

9. File I/O

• open() function
• close() method
• write() method
• read() method
• with keyword

11. Exceptions and Exception Handling

    • Introduction to Exceptions in Python
    • Standard Errors
    • try, except keyword
    • try except else
    • finally keyword
    • raise keyword
    • User Defined Exceptions
    • Total

12. Python Package Management

    • Introduction to Symantic Versioning
    • PIP and its usage

13. Virtual Environments

    • Introduction to virtual enviromnemts
    • VENV and its usage
    • PIPENV and its usage

14. Python Advanced Functions

    • groupby() function
    • sorted() function
    • filter() function
    • map() function

15. Regular Expressions (REGEX)

    • Introduction to regular expressions
    • REGEX special characters
    • The re module

16. Advanced Data Structures

17. Decorators

18. Mixins

19. http module

20. requests library

21. Advanced Type hinting

Folder Structure

The repository has its folder structure as shown in example below:

python-notes
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── course
│   ├── c01_basics
│   │   ├── Chapter 1 Basics.md
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   ├── code
│   │   │   ├── c0101_hello_world.py
│   │   │   └── c0102_comments.py
│   │   └── quiz
│   │       ├── README.md
│   │       └── solution
│   │           ├── q0101.py
│   │           └── q0102.py
│   └── ...
│
├── projects
│   ├── project_01
│   │   ├── project_01_requirements.md
│   │   └── rock_paper_scissor
│   │       ├── README.md
│   │       └── game.py
│   └── ...

If you're directly cloning the repository, I suggest you to solve in the different branch than the main branch to avoid conflicts if the course content changes.

If you're forking, I suggest you not to make any changes in the main branch in your repository too so that you can pull and rebase future changes to your fork.

Pulling future changes for your forks

for pulling the future changes you can add remote in your local repository with the commands below:

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