python-software-dev-msai

This is the repository for the Python class at the MSAI program in the Fall 2024 semester.

This course is about Software Development with Python.

How to submit assignments

1. Fork the repository.
2. Clone your fork.
3. Work on your fork, and make a pull request with your code changes.

Materials

• ./assignments/ contains the assignments to be submitted.
• ./lectures_notesooks/ contains the notebooks used during the webinars.

Fall Semester 2024

The Fall semester covers introductory topics:

• Environments
• Variables and data types
• Conditions and loops
• Containers
• I/O, Files
• Functions and Recursion
• Object Oriented Programming
• Modules, Packages
• Exceptions
• Debugging, Testing, Profiling
• Basic Web scraping
• Basics of Cython, Numpy and Code Optimization
• Basics of Pandas

Spring Semester 2025

The Spring semester continues covering more topics oriented towards Software development, including:

• Continuation from the first semester: Data Visualization
• Advanced Bash Scripting
• Static Code Analysis
• Compilation and Execution Process in Python: AST, ByteCode, CPython vs Pypy, JIT
• Memory management in Python: Reference Counting and Garbage Collection
• Threading, Parallelism and Concurrency: Multiprocesses, Threads, GIL, Asyncio
• Servers, deployment, docker
• Web frameworks: flask, fastAPI
• Basics of Databases (SQL, Redis, Mongo)
• ...

by @aniervs