COURSE TOPICS

Unix
  - Files and Directories
  - The bash shell
  - Processes
  - Using Command-line programs
  - Configuring and Running Python
  - Editors and IDEs

Basics
  - Calculate: Arithmetic
  - Store: variables and assignment
  - Information: numbers, strings, booleans
  - Grouping code with Indentation
  - Making choices: if-elif-else
  - Getting data: input
  - Producing results: print
  - Repetition: for and while
  - Order of Operations

Conditions
  - and
  - or
  - not
  - Comparison operators

Strings
  - Single,Double,Triple Quotes
  - Operations
  - Formatting
  - Methods

Iteration
  - for
  - while
  - break
  - range
  - with a sequence

Documentation
  - Commenting code
  - Finding help
  - doc strings

Functions
  - Purpose
  - Defining
  - Documenting
  - arguments
  - named arguments
  - default values
  - returning results

Files
  - Reading from a file
  - Writing to a file
  - open and close
  - readlines()
  - strip()
  - split()

Data Structures
  - Lists
  - Tuples
  - Dictionaries
  - Classes as data holders

Sequence Operations
 - Slicing

Searching and Sorting
 - sort and sorted
 - keys, reverse
 - using tuples

recursion

Advanced Techniques
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lambda functions

functional programming: map, filter, reduce

classes as data structures

classes and object oriented programming
 - init
 - methods
 - inheritance

random: probability, modeling, games

robust programs and exception handling.
 - try except finally

Applications and Special Modules
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+datetime: time calculations
+hashlib: creating message digests
+email: how to spam the world!
+urllib: accessing the web from python
regular expressions: inside python (re) and  outside (grep/egrep)
+os: walking through files and 
+subprocess: controlling other programs


Making Functional Programs for Others
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how command line programs work
the shell, shell variables, wildcards
examples: pipe and redirection, stdin, stdout
wc, ls, grep, find


making a command line program using sys

module definitions
 - making testable and importable modules

graphical user interfaces


Engineering with Python
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numpy and scipy
 arrays, multiplying, broadcasting.
 plotting. plot types. making good plots.
 animation
 symbolic math
 complex math
 3D plots
  
image processing- inside python and with convert

graphics

sound processing: principles and tools.


Software development
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methods: 
 solve a small problem first.
 divide and conquer.
 code/test/learn. repeat.
 document

projects: thinking about what's required

testing and program specifications

efficiency, profiling, timeit

debugging: print, ipython3, pdb
 - interpreting error messages

program style and documentation
 - how to use comments
 - naming conventions

which tool: other languages
 C,C++,assembler,MATLAB