CS005
Intro to Programming 2: Python
Faculty
Vladimir Mazin
Msc. Data Science at Harbour.Space University
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Overview
Whereas “Intro to Programming 1” introduces you to basic Python instruments, such as lists, dicts, loops, etc, “Intro to Programming 2” focuses on building complex programs.
In Python, anything is an object. Every object has its own functions and operators (that are functions too). For example, you can get two lists and concatenate them with a ‘+’ operator. Can we overload this operator to do anything we can imagine? Or can we create an object that is almost like a list but has two dimensions?
Python is a beautiful language mainly due to its huge community of enthusiasts. This means that if you can think of a thing, it is most likely already implemented in some third-party library (like that 2D list, we mentioned above). This means that you can gracefully integrate someone else's code into your program. In our course we will learn how to do this, making your code compact and efficient.
Learning highlights
- The main goal is to make a transition from exploiting the “magic” of Python towards understanding and transforming it. In doing so, you can create complex and yet intelligible programs.
- How to read and write files
- Why we need exceptions and how to catch them
- How a program runs and what Call Stack is. This knowledge allows the user to effectively debug code
- OOP principles: Inheritance, Polymorphism, Composition, Aggregation, as well as when to use
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
Code Efficiency: Time and Space Complexity. Built-in data structures analysis.
Session 2
Files Input and Output, the Pickle module
Session 3
Errors and Exception Handling
Session 4
Practice Session
Session 5
Test I + Review of the week
Session 6
Python libraries (modules). Module “collections”. Installing new modules via pip. Creating our own modules
Session 7
Object-Oriented Programming, Part I OOP principles, Class Attributes & Methods
Session 8
Object-Oriented Programming, Part II Inheritance, Polymorphism, Composition, Aggregation
Session 9
Practice Session
Session 10
Test II + Review of the week
Session 11
Useful modules from the Standard Library
Session 12
Iterators and generators. List comprehensions
Session 13
Decorators
Session 14
Practice Session
Session 15
Final Exam
Methodology
The course sessions consist of lectures given by the professor and practical seminars where students complete a programming assignment under the professor’s supervision. Homework is assigned after each session to strengthen the understanding of the material. The lectures will start with homework analysis, where we discuss the solutions. There will be two tests at the end of the first and second weeks and a final exam at the end of the course.
Grading
In 2012 with scientific research in Algebra, Vladimir won 1st place at the National contest in Russia, the Intel-Avangard, and became a finalist of the Intel ISEF.
After school, he enrolled for Bachelors at ITMO University for the programme of Applied Math and Programming. During his Bachelor's, he participated in several educational projects: in 2013 he was a coordinator of the national science fair for school students - BalticSEF; in 2014 he was a teacher in the LCME summer school, teaching two courses on maths. In the last years of his Bachelors, Vladimir entered the centre of additional higher education, Computer Science Center, for the programme of Software Engineering. In the end of summer of 2015, he completed a 3-month internship as a Software Developer.
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Intro to Programming 2: Python
by Vladimir Mazin
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Jan 10 - Jan 28, 2022
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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