OPS445 Weekly Task Update
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Topics
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Reading/Reference
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Tasks/Labs
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Week 1:
Jan 10 - 14
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Course Overview
- Introduction
- Why Python?
- Natural language & formal language
git and github.com
Python components:
- keywords
- symbols
- modules
- objects
Python Shell
- builtin modules
- builtin functions:
- keyword: import
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- Think Python: Chapter 1
- What is a program?
- Input, process (sequence, looping, repetition), output
- complier, interpreter
- Debugging
- Automate with Python: Chapter 1 & 2
- Python Basics
- Flow Control
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Week 2:
Jan 17 - 21
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Python Basics:
- Objects
- Methods and properties
- Operators
- expressions
- statements
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- Think Python: Chapter 2
- Variable, expressions and statements
- Script mode and interactive mode
- Python math operators and order of operations
- String operation '+' and '*'
- Automate with Python: Chapter 3 & 4
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Week 3:
Jan 24 - 28
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Reusing Python Code:
Functions
- keyword: def
- function parameters
- return value
- keyword: None
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- Think Python: Chapter 3 Functions
- Function calls
- Adding new functions
- Definitions and uses
- Flow of execution
- Parameters and arguments
- Variables and parameters
- Fruitful functions and void functions
- Automate with Python: Chapter 5 & 6
- Dictionaries and structuring data
- Manipulating Strings
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Week 4:
Jan 31 - Feb 4
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Basic Data Structures and String Manipulation:
- Integers
- Strings
- Tuples
- Lists
- Dictionaries
- Sets
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- Think Python: Chapter 5 Conditionals and recursion
- Boolean expression
- Logical operators
- Conditional execution
- Alternative execution
- Chained conditionals
- Nested conditionals
- Recursion
- Infinite recursion
- Keyboard Input
- Automate with Python: Chapter 7 & 8
- Regular Expressions
- Reading and Writing Files
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Week 5:
Feb 7 - 11
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Files, Exceptions:
- File Handling
- Error Handling
- Builtin error types
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- Think Python: Chapter 14 - Files
- Reading and writing
- Format operator
- Filenames and paths
- Catching exception
- Databasess
- Picking
- Pipes
- Writing modules
- Automate with Python: Chapter 9 & 10
- Organizing Files
- Debugging
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Week 6:
Feb 14 - 18
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Review and Catch-up
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Week 7:
Feb 21 - 25
(Monday is a holiday)
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Mid-Term Test
- Date: THIS WEEK
- Topics: Lab 1 to Lab 5 and All topics covered from week 1 to week 5
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Break Week:
Feb 28 - Mar 4
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Week 8:
Mar 7 - 11
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Classes:
- Components of a class
- Classes and objects
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- Think Python: Chapter 15 - Classes and objects
- Programmer-defined types
- Attributes
- Instances and return values
- Objects are mutable
- Copying
- Think Python: Chapter 16 - Classes and functions
- Pure functions
- Modifiers
- Prototyping versus planning
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Week 9:
Mar 14 - 18
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Classes:
- Designing classes
- Understanding scope
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- Think Python: Chapter 17 - Classes and methods
- The __init__ method
- The __str__ methond
- The __repr__ method
- Operator overloading
- Type-based dispatch
- Polymorphism
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Week 10:
Mar 21 - 25
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Configuration management:
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Week 11:
Mar 28 - Apr 1
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Python Networking
- Ansible
- Network Client
- Network Server
Asynchronous Python Networking
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Week 12:
Apr 4 - 8
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Complete Assignment 2
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Assignment 2
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Week 13:
Apr 11 - 15
(Friday is a holiday)
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Final Assessment Review
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Week 14:
Apr 18 - 22
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Final Assessment
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