Python Programming 2

Course Overview

The Python Programming 2 course comprises sessions dealing with advanced object orientation, iterators and generators, comprehensions, decorators, multithreading, functional programming, web services, and unit testing.

The delegate will learn how to exploit advanced features of the Python language to build complex and efficient applications.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

Encapsulating classes
Exploiting polymorphism using inheritance and mixins
Associating objects via composition and aggregation
Working with static members
Using iterators as an alternative to for
Constructing custom iterators
Constructing functions that yield generators
Manipulating lists, sets, and dictionaries using comprehension
Exploiting aspect oriented programming using decorators
Writing multithreaded code
Sharing data between threads
Processing collections using lambdas
Building RESTful clients
Building RESTful APIs
Testing units of code

Course Prerequisites

• • Delegates should be able to build Python applications that exploit all fundamental elements of the language including variables and expressions, conditions and loops, functions, objects, and lists.
    
    This knowledge can be gained by attendance on the pre-requisite Python Programming 1 course.

Target Audience for this Course

• • The Python Programming 2 course is designed for existing Python developers who have a good grounding in the basics and want to exploit some of the advanced features of the language.
    
    For the delegate for whom Python is their first programming language, we recommend taking the Python Programming 1 course first, then taking some time to practice the skills gained, before returning to take the Python Programming 2 course.

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course Content

• DAY 1

  Session 1: ADVANCED OBJECT ORIENTATION
  The self Keyword
  Constructors and Destructors
  Encapsulation
  Inheritance
  Polymorphism
  Abstract Classes
  Multiple Inheritance and Mixins
  Composition and Aggregation
  Static Members
  Session 2: ITERATORS & GENERATORS
  Iterables
  Iterators
  Custom Iterators
  Generators
  Yield vs. Return
  Session 3: COMPREHENSIONS
  List Comprehension
  Set Comprehension
  The zip Function
  Dictionary Comprehension

• DAY 2

  Session 4: FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
  Functional Programming
  Lambdas
  Immutability
  Mapping
  Filtering
  Reducing
  Session 5: DECORATORS
  Decorators
  Decorator Functions
  Decorator Annotations
  Decorator Use Cases
  Labs
  Session 6: MULTITHREADING
  Threads
  Multithreading
  Thread Construction
  Thread Execution
  Thread Sleep
  Joins
  Data Sharing
  Synchronisation
  Multithreading vs. Multiprocessing

• DAY 3

  Session 7: WEB SERVICES
  RESTful Web Services
  JSON Data
  CRUD and HTTP
  RESTful Clients
  RESTful APIs
  Session 8: UNIT TESTING
  Unit Testing Terminology
  Test Classes
  Test Fixtures
  Test Cases
  Assertions
  Test Runners