Python Fundamentals LiveLessons (Video Training)

by Chun, Wesley J

• ISBN13: 9780137143412
• ISBN10: 0137143419
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

For any student or professional interested in learning the fundamentals of Python In this one-of-a-kind video package, leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively, so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project. Just click and watch: One step at a time, you will master Python fundamentals. If you already have Python experience, these videos will help further develop your skills. The lessons start with an introduction to the core features of the Python language, including syntax basics and standard types and operations. The lessons progress into advanced topics, such as Pythonrs"s memory model and object-oriented programming. This LiveLessons video course closely mirrors the topics covered in its sister publication,Core Python Programming, Second Edition(Prentice Hall, 2007). As in the book, viewers will find review questions and coding exercises at the end of each lesson in the video booklet to test the material introduced in the video and printed parts of the lesson.

Author Biography

Wesley J. Chun, MSCS, is author of Prentice Hall’s bestseller, Core Python Programming, Second Edition (corepython.com), and coauthor of Python Web Development with Django (withdjango.com). In addition to being a senior software architect, he runs CyberWeb (cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He has more than twenty-five years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in computer science, mathematics, and music from the University of California.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Administrivia, Installation, References/Resources	p. 1
Downloading Python	p. 1
Editors	p. 1
IDEs	p. 1
Interactive Interpreter	p. 4
Exercises	p. 5
Getting Started	p. 7
Python 2 to Python 3 Transition	p. 7
Exercises	p. 7
Python Syntax Basics	p. 9
Basic Syntax Rules	p. 9
Commenting	p. 9
Code Block Delimitation	p. 9
Variables and Assignment	p. 10
Identifier Rules	p. 10
Functions	p. 10
Importing Modules and Packages	p. 11
User Keyboard Input	p. 12
Exercises	p. 12
Standard Types	p. 13
Standard Types	p. 13
Numbers	p. 13
Sequences	p. 14
Hashing	p. 18
Operators and Built-in Functions	p. 21
Exercises	p. 31
Objects and Memory Model	p. 33
Objects	p. 33
References (and Variables)	p. 34
Reference Counting	p. 34
Categorizing the Types	p. 35
Quizzes	p. 36
Exercises	p. 36
Loops and Conditionals	p. 37
if Statement Family	p. 37
Ternary Operator/Conditional Expression	p. 37
Loops	p. 38
while	p. 38
for	p. 38
Loop Helpers	p. 42
Summary	p. 43
Exercises	p. 43
Files and Input/Output	p. 45
Files	p. 45
Standard Files	p. 45
File Objects	p. 46
File Methods	p. 46
Reading Data	p. 46
Writing Data	p. 48
Other File Attributes	p. 48
Limitations of Files and Other Forms of Persistent Storage	p. 49
Pickling Objects	p. 49
Shelving Objects	p. 50
Summary	p. 51
Exercises	p. 54
Errors and Exceptions	p. 55
Concepts	p. 55
Exception Handling and Python	p. 55
Using the try-except Statement	p. 56
Causes of Exceptions	p. 58
Handling Multiple Exceptions	p. 58
Using else with try-except	p. 59
The finally Statement	p. 59
Context Management	p. 60
Throwing Exceptions with raise and assert	p. 61
Creating Your Own Exceptions	p. 62
Limitations	p. 63
Non-Error Exceptions	p. 63
Summary	p. 64
Exercises	p. 66
Functions and Functional Programming	p. 67
Arguments in Function Calls	p. 68
Function Declarations and Definitions	p. 68
Return Values	p. 69
Evaluation	p. 69
Variable Scope and Namespaces	p. 70
Functional Programming	p. 74
and Have Nothing to Do with Pointers in Python	p. 75
Variable Arguments	p. 76
Argument Groups/Collections/Expansion	p. 76
Advanced Topics	p. 77
Summary	p. 79
Exercises	p. 79
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 81
Structured Programming	p. 81
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 82
Structured/Procedural vs. Object-Oriented Programming	p. 82
OOP and Python	p. 83
Classes	p. 84
Instances	p. 86
Methods	p. 87
Subclasses	p. 88
Multiple Inheritance	p. 91
Summary	p. 92
Exercises	p. 94
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Excerpts

Chun.book PrefaceWelcome to Python Fundamentals LiveLessons DVD. This is a complete video course that can be used to bring you up to speed with Python. It is intended to complement and is adapted from the book Core Python Programming, Second Edition (ISBN-10: 0-13-226993-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-226993-3), also by yours truly.This workbook provides auxiliary material to augment or supplement the lessons on the DVD and provides some exercises so you can gauge how well you absorbed the material. The exercises either come directly from Core Python Programming or are adapted from it, and I recommend that book for more challenging problems than you will find here. A problem prefixed with (CPPx-y) means the exercise is either adapted or taken directly from Core Python Programming Exercise y in Chapter x. I also describe for each lesson which chapters from the book are the most applicable. Section headings beginning with an asterisk (*) cover advanced material and are optional. ConventionsI introduce new technical terms using italics. URLs are formatted as http://links. Monospacing is used for all code in both the presentation and booklet. Code blocks and interactive interpreter examples are set in monospaced blocks, like so: >>>print 'Hello World!' Hello World! Book ResourcesA full copy of the entire presentation, plus a bonus appendix, is accessible directly on the DVD. You will also find all of the main code examples from Core Python Programming on the DVD. At the time of this writing, there are no plans to create a separate Web site for this LiveLessons course, so I recommend that you visit either the Core Python Programming book's Web site, http://corepython.com , or the main Live-Lessons site, http://mylivelessons.com , for additional information. The author can be reached via email at [e-mail] . Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.