Advanced Python

Lesson 1

1. Advanced Python Concepts
   1. Lambda Functions
   2. Advanced List Comprehensions
   3. Exercise: Rolling Five Dice
   4. Collections Module
   5. Exercise: Creating a defaultdict
   6. Counters
   7. Exercise: Creating a Counter
   8. Mapping and Filtering
   9. Mutable and Immutable Built-in Objects
   10. Sorting
   11. Exercise: Converting list.sort() to sorted(iterable)
   12. Sorting Sequences of Sequences
   13. Creating a Dictionary from Two Sequences
   14. Unpacking Sequences in Function Calls
   15. Exercise: Converting a String to a datetime.date Object
   16. Modules and Packages
2. Regular Expressions
   1. Regular Expression Tester
   2. Regular Expression Syntax
   3. Python's Handling of Regular Expressions
   4. Exercise: Green Glass Door
3. Working with Data
   1. Virtual Environment
   2. Relational Databases
   3. Passing Parameters
   4. SQLite
   5. Exercise: Querying a SQLite Database
   6. SQLite Database in Memory
   7. Exercise: Inserting File Data into a Database
   8. Drivers for Other Databases
   9. CSV
   10. Exercise: Finding Data in a CSV File
   11. Creating a New CSV File
   12. Exercise: Creating a CSV with DictWriter
   13. Getting Data from the Web
   14. Exercise: HTML Scraping
   15. XML
   16. JSON
   17. Exercise: JSON Home Runs
4. Testing and Debugging
   1. Testing for Performance
   2. Exercise: Comparing Times to Execute
   3. The unittest Module
   4. Exercise: Fixing Functions
   5. Special unittest.TestCase Methods
5. Classes and Objects
   1. Attributes
   2. Behaviors
   3. Classes vs. Objects
   4. Attributes and Methods
   5. Exercise: Adding a roll() Method to Die
   6. Private Attributes
   7. Properties
   8. Exercise: Properties
   9. Objects that Track their Own History
   10. Documenting Classes
   11. Exercise: Documenting the Die Class
   12. Inheritance
   13. Exercise: Extending the Die Class
   14. Extending a Class Method
   15. Exercise: Extending the roll() Method
   16. Static Methods
   17. Class Attributes and Methods
   18. Abstract Classes and Methods
   19. Understanding Decorators