Ultimate Python Programming

01 Preface +

02 Introduction to Python 7 topics +

• What makes Python so popular
• Python implementation
• Installing Python
• Python Interactive Mode
• Executing a Python Script
• IDLE
• Getting Help

03 Getting Started 26 topics +

• Identifiers
• Python Types
• Objects
• Variables and assignment statement
• Multiple and Pairwise Assignments
• Deleting a name
• Naming convention for constants 
• Operators
• Augmented assignment statements
• Expressions
• Order of operations: Operator Precedence and Associativity
• Type Conversion
• Statements
• Printing Output 
• Getting user input
• Complete programs
• Comments
• Indentation in Python
• Container types
• Mutable and Immutable Types 
• Functions and methods
• Importing
• Revisiting interactive mode 
• Errors
• PEP8
• Exercise

04 Strings 22 topics +

• Indexing
• Strings are immutable
• String Slicing
• String Concatenation and Repetition
• Checking membership 
• Adding whitespace to strings
• Creating multiline strings
• String methods
• Case-changing methods
• Character classification methods
• Aligning text within strings 
• Removing unwanted leading and trailing characters
• Searching and replacing substrings
• Chaining method calls
• String comparison 
• String conversions
• Escape Sequences
• Raw string literals
• String formatting
• String formatting using the format() method of string class
• Representation of text - character encodings
• Exercise 

05 Lists and Tuples 30 topics +

• Accessing individual elements of a list by indexing 
• Getting parts of a list by slicing
• Changing an item in a list by index assignment
• Changing a Portion of the list by slice assignment
• Adding an item at the end of the list by using append()
• Adding an item anywhere in the list by using insert()
• Adding multiple items at the end by using extend() or +=
• Removing a single element or a slice by using the del statement
• Removing an element by index and getting it by using pop()
• Removing an element by value using remove()
• Removing all the elements by using clear()
• Sorting a List 
• Reversing a List
• Finding an item in the list
• Comparing Lists
• Built-in functions used on lists
• Concatenation and Replication
• Using a list with functions from the random module
• Creating a list
• Using range to create a list of integers
• Using the repetition operator to create a list of repeated values
• Creating a list by splitting a string
• Converting a list of strings to a single string using join()
• List of Lists (Nested lists)
• Copying a list
• Shallow copy and deep copy
• Repetition operator with nested lists
• Tuples
• Tuple packing and unpacking
• Exercise