Programming Foundations: Real-World Examples

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• Installing Python 3 for Windows
• Installing Python 3 for Mac

1. Functions

• Cook with functions
• Code reuse
• Add new input parameters
• Local and global variables

2. Objects

• Clothing as objects
• Custom objects
• Naming objects
• Mutable and immutable data

3. Class Inheritance

• Inheriting classes
• Override inherited methods

4. Modules and Packages

• Select tools from modules
• Import tools from packages

5. Lists and Tuples

• Parking with lists
• Multidimensional lists
• Tuples

6. Queues and Stacks

• Queues
• Stacks

7. Sets

• Create and combine sets
• Sort sets
• Add and remove items from sets

8. Dictionaries

• Dictionaries
• Add items to dictionaries
• Reverse lookup issues

9. Conditional Execution

• If/else-if chains
• Switch and case statements

10. Loops

• For loops
• While loops
• Break statements

11. Error Handling

• Error catching
• Validate external input
• Custom errors

12. Polling and Event-Driven Programming

• Polling for a condition
• Event driven programming

Conclusion

• Next steps