PC-Python

Introduction

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. PC-Python
  • 1.2. Home pages:
  • 1.3. Key references:
  • 1.4. Online editors:

Python

• 1. Python Setup
  • 1.1. Install Python
  • 1.2. Create a python Virtual environment
  • 1.3. Activate a python Virtual environment
  • 1.4. Using the python Virtual environment in VSCode
  • 1.5. Updating pip
  • 1.6. Installing packages
  • 1.7. Updating packages
  • 1.8. List installed packages

Python

• 1. Python Intro
  • 1.1. Python Indentation
• 2. Data Types
  • 2.1. Strings
  • 2.2. Numbers
  • 2.3. Booleans
  • 2.4. Types
  • 2.5. Type casting
• 3. Operators
• 4. Arithmetic operators
• 5. Compound_assignment
• 6. Comparison operations
• 7. Logical operations
• 8. Membership operations
  • 8.1. Membership operations
• 9. Identity operators
  • 9.1. Identity operators
• 10. Variables
  • 10.1. Python Reserved Words
  • 10.2. Python conventions
  • 10.3. Snake case
  • 10.4. ALL_CAPS
  • 10.5. CapWords
  • 10.6. camelCase
  • 10.7. KebabCase
  • 10.8. Sample code
  • 10.9. Tasks
• 11. Variables Scope
  • 11.1. Scope
  • 11.2. Local Variables
  • 11.3. Global Variables
  • 11.4. Use arguments instead of global variables
  • 11.5. Nonlocal variables in nested functions
• 12. Selection
  • 12.1. If, elif, else
  • 12.2. Nested if
• 13. Iteration
  • 13.1. Loops
  • 13.2. For loops with the range function
  • 13.3. Nested For loops
  • 13.4. For loops with sequences
  • 13.5. While True loops
  • 13.6. While loops
• 14. Functions
  • 14.1. Functions without parameters
  • 14.2. Functions with parameters
  • 14.3. Functions with default parameters
  • 14.4. Functions returning information
  • 14.5. *args
• 15. Data Structures
  • 15.1. Lists
  • 15.2. Sorting
  • 15.3. Tuples
  • 15.4. Sets
  • 15.5. Dictionaries
  • 15.6. Practice Questions
• 16. Multiple Assignment
  • 16.1. Multiple Assignment in Tuple, list, strings
  • 16.2. Packing with * in multiple assignment
  • 16.3. Swapping variable values
• 17. Unpacking iterables
  • 17.1. Unpacking to merge tuples
  • 17.2. Unpacking to merge lists
• 18. Function packing and unpacking
  • 18.1. Packing arguments of a function
  • 18.2. Unpacking for a function
  • 18.3. Combining unpacking and packing for a function
  • 18.4. Built in functions: Unpacking with more than one value
  • 18.5. Built in functions: Unpacking with just one value

Advanced Python

• 1. List Comprehensions
  • 1.1. List comprehension
  • 1.2. List comprehension: conditions
  • 1.3. List comprehension: nested
• 2. Dictionary Comprehensions
  • 2.1. List comprehension
• 3. Set Comprehensions
  • 3.1. Set comprehension without condition
  • 3.2. Set comprehension with condition
• 4. Generators
  • 4.1. Generator via a for-loop
  • 4.2. Generator comprehension
• 5. Enumerate
  • enumerate()
• 6. Match - Case
  • 6.1. Match-case
  • 6.2. Case Alternatives
  • 6.3. Wilcard
  • 6.4. Vaiable instead of Wilcard
  • 6.5. Splitting multi-word strings into a list for complex matching
  • 6.6. Splitting with the use of as to capture the alternative used
  • 6.7. Guard pattern: Combing a condition in a case
  • 6.8. Using the unpacking operator on a list
  • 6.9. Structure Matching lists or tuples
  • 6.10. Matching tuples for coordinates
  • 6.11. Matching sets
  • 6.12. Matching dictionaries
  • 6.13. Checking Types in Python Match-Case Statements

Files

• 1. Text files
  • 1.1. Reading files
  • 1.2. Context manager approach
  • 1.3. Readlines
  • 1.4. Iterating through the file
  • 1.5. Write to a file
  • 1.6. Appending to a text file
  • 1.7. Copying parts of a text file
• 2. csv files
  • 2.1. Header rows
  • 2.2. Opening files: newline=’’
  • 2.3. csv.reader
  • 2.4. Reading files
  • 2.5. Reading files with non comma delimiter
  • 2.6. next function
  • 2.7. Using an index with the row lists
  • 2.8. Padded strings
  • 2.9. Reading a csv file to a list
  • 2.10. csv writer
  • 2.11. Converting comma delimited to tab delimited files.
  • 2.12. Saving a list of sublists to a csv file
  • 2.13. DictReader
  • 2.14. DictReading files
  • 2.15. Using a key with the row dictionaries
  • 2.16. DictWriter
  • 2.17. DictWriter.writeheader
  • 2.18. DictWriter with fieldnames
  • 2.19. DictWriter with selected fieldnames
• 3. json files
  • 3.1. Structure
  • 3.2. Loads
  • 3.3. json to dict
  • 3.4. Dumps
  • 3.5. Printing specific keys from json objects
  • 3.6. Printing specific keys from json objects with indenting
  • 3.7. Convert a dict to json
  • 3.8. Convert a nested dict to json
  • 3.9. Convert a nested dict to json file
  • 3.10. Load
  • 3.11. Loading a json file
  • 3.12. Printing specific keys
  • 3.13. Dump
  • 3.14. dump json data to a file
  • 3.15. dump json processed file data to a file
• 4. json API
  • 4.1. Getting free weather data from the web
  • 4.2. urlopen function
  • 4.3. read function
  • 4.4. Reading weather json
  • 4.5. Plot weather data
• 5. xml files
  • 5.1. xml structure
  • 5.2. Parse xml file
  • 5.3. Edit tag text
  • 5.4. Fixing indenting
  • 5.5. New Elements
  • 5.6. Append element
• 6. File conversions
  • 6.1. Files for csv ⇔ json
  • 6.2. json file to csv file
  • 6.3. csv file to json file
  • 6.4. Files for xml ⇔ json
  • 6.5. Module for xml conversions
  • 6.6. xml file to json file
  • 6.7. json file to xml file

Turtle

• 1. Introduction to turtle
  • 1.1. turtle documentation
  • 1.2. Tutorial
  • 1.3. Academy
  • 1.4. turtle uses tkinter
  • 1.5. Import turtle
  • 1.6. Screen and turtles
• 2. Turtle screen
  • 2.1. Screen class
  • 2.2. Screen colours
  • 2.3. Screen title
  • 2.4. Screen size and position
  • 2.5. Using screen events
  • 2.6. Exit on click
• 3. Turtle screen advanced
  • 3.1. Screen background gif
  • 3.2. Clear screen
  • 3.3. Reset screen
  • 3.4. Reset screensize
  • 3.5. Animation control
  • 3.6. Using screen events
• 4. Turtle drawing
  • 4.1. Turtle methods
• 5. Turtle square progressions
  • 5.1. Sequencing: steps to draw a square
  • 5.2. Iteration: using a for-loop to draw a square
  • 5.3. Definitions: using a def block to draw a square
  • 5.4. Adding pen colour and fill colour parameters
  • 5.5. Practice Questions
• 6. Turtle rectangle progressions
  • 6.1. Sequencing: steps to draw a rectangle
  • 6.2. Iteration: using a for-loop to draw a rectangle
  • 6.3. Definitions: using a def block to draw a rectangle
  • 6.4. Adding pen colour and fill colour parameters
  • 6.5. Practice Questions
• 7. Turtle star progressions
  • 7.1. Sequencing: steps to draw a star
  • 7.2. Iteration: using a for-loop to draw a star
  • 7.3. Definitions: using a def block to draw a star
  • 7.4. Adding pen colour and fill colour parameters
  • 7.5. Practice Questions
• 8. Turtle triangle progressions
  • 8.1. Scalene triangle
  • 8.2. Isosceles triangle
  • 8.3. Isosceles triangle at any angle
  • 8.4. Equilateral triangles
  • 8.5. Adding pen colour and fill colour parameters
• 9. Turtle dots
  • 9.1. Turtle Dots
  • 9.2. Draw_dot definition: dots at a specified location
  • 9.3. Using the Draw_dot definition
  • 9.4. draw_dot_stack definition
  • 9.5. Exploring dot stacks further
  • 9.6. Icecream cones from dot stacks
  • 9.7. draw_dot_stack_cone definition
  • 9.8. draw_dot_stack_cone usage
  • 9.9. Hexagonal array: draw_dot_centre_hexagon definition
• 10. Turtle circles
  • 10.1. Turtle Circles
  • 10.2. Circles at a specified location
  • 10.3. Circles within circles
  • 10.4. Rings of circles
• 11. Turtle regular polygons
  • 11.1. Turtle Circles as polygons
  • 11.2. Regular polygons at a specified location
  • 11.3. Simple regular polygons
• 12. Turtle pie slices
  • 12.1. Turtle Circles as pie slices
  • 12.2. Pie slices at a specified location
  • 12.3. Simple pie slices
• 13. Turtle shapes module
  • 13.1. Importing the module
  • 13.2. Shape module functions
  • 13.3. Square
  • 13.4. Rectangle
  • 13.5. Scalene
  • 13.6. Isosceles
  • 13.7. Equilateral
• 14. Turtle houses module
  • 14.1. Importing the shapes module
  • 14.2. Houses
  • 14.3. House definition
  • 14.4. Front of house
  • 14.5. Door of house
  • 14.6. Roof of house
  • 14.7. windows
  • 14.8. Houses with windows
  • 14.9. Multiple houses
• 15. Turtle houses designs
  • 15.1. Symmetrical house
  • 15.2. Module revision
  • 15.3. Other compound objects

Classes

• 1. Classes as objects
  • 1.1. Class attributes and methods
• 2. Creating a Class
  • 2.1. Naming Classes
  • 2.2. Class Creation
  • 2.3. Object instantiation
• 3. Self
  • 3.1. Self in variables
  • 3.2. Self in methods
• 4. Instance variables
  • 4.1. Variables unique to the instance
  • 4.2. Instantiating a class instance with arguments
  • 4.3. Customary variable names
  • 4.4. Default paramaters
  • 4.5. Changing Instance variables in an instance
• 5. The init method
  • 5.1. The __init__() method
  • 5.2. *args in the __init__() function
• 6. Class variables
  • 6.1. Class variables common to instances
  • 6.2. Changing Class variables for all instances
  • 6.3. Changing Class variables in an instance
  • 6.4. Modifying Class variables during instantiation
• 7. Instance Methods
  • 7.1. Regular Methods without parameters
  • 7.2. Regular Methods with parameters
• 8. Class methods
  • 8.1. @classmethod and cls parameter
  • 8.2. Using a Class method in the __init__ function
  • 8.3. Class methods as alternative constructors
• 9. Static methods
• 10. Class Inheritance
  • 10.1. Class Inheritance
  • 10.2. super
  • 10.3. Magic8Pos(Magic8) - modify attribute
  • 10.4. Magic8Button(Magic8)- modify method
  • 10.5. Multiple Class Inheritance
• 11. Class Composition
  • 11.1. Composition
  • 11.2. Board Asteroid
  • 11.3. Board Asteroid Ship

Class exercises

• 1. Dog Class
• 2. Polygon Class with *args
• 3. Restaurant Class
• 4. Restaurant inheritance
• 5. Rectangle Inheritance
  • 5.1. Square(Rectangle) Inheritance
  • 5.2. ColouredRectangle(Rectangle) Inheritance
• 6. Dice Inheritance
• 7. User Class
• 8. Car Class
• 9. Car Class Inheritance
• 10. Car Class Composition
• 11. Employee Salary Composition
  • 11.1. Composition
  • 11.2. Employee Salary