Getting Things Done with Python - Curriculum

Intro

• 01-Intro.ipynb
• 02-Getting Started.ipynb
• 03-A Whirlwind Tour through Python!.ipynb
• 04-Lists.ipynb
• 05-Loops.ipynb
• 06-Conditional Statements.ipynb
• 07-Functions and Modules.ipynb
• 08-Dictionaries.ipynb
• 09-CLI Programs.ipynb
• 10-Object-oriented Programming.ipynb
• 12-Exceptions.ipynb

All lecture notes in this block are based on the following literature:

• AUTOMATE THE BORING STUFF WITH PYTHON, Practical Programming for Total Beginners by Al Sweigart

  • Chapter 1: Python Basics
  • Chapter 2: Flow Control
  • Chapter 3: Functions
  • Chapter 4: Lists
  • Chapter 5: Dictionaries and Structuring Data.
  • Chapter 6: Manipulating Strings

• PYTHON CRASH COURSE A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming by Eric Matthes

  • Chapter 1: Getting Started
  • Chapter 2: Variables and Simple Data Types
  • Chapter 3: Introducing Lists
  • Chapter 4: Working with Lists
  • Chapter 5: if Statements
  • Chapter 6: Dictionaries
  • Chapter 7: User Input and while Loops
  • Chapter 8: Functions
  • Chapter 9: Classes
  • Chapter 10: Files and Exceptions
  • Chapter 11: Testing Your Code

Datascience Basics

• 13-Working with Files.ipynb
• 14-Intro to Plotting.ipynb
• 15-Plotting Continued - Bokeh.ipynb
• 16-Intro to Numpy.ipynb
• 17-Intro to Pandas.ipynb
• 18-Graphs and PageRank.ipynb

All lecture notes in this block are based on the following literature:

• AUTOMATE THE BORING STUFF WITH PYTHON, Practical Programming for Total Beginners by Al Sweigart

  • Chapter 8: Reading and Writing Files
  • Chapter 12: Working with Excel Spreadsheets
  • Chapter 14: Working with CSV Files and JSON Data

• Data Science from Scratch by Joel Grus

  • Chapter 3: Visualizing Data
  • Chapter 21: Network Analysis

Intro to Web Scraping

• 19-Intro to Requests.ipynb

• 20-Web Scraping Basics.ipynb

• 21-Regular Expressions and Selenium.ipynb

• AUTOMATE THE BORING STUFF WITH PYTHON, Practical Programming for Total Beginners by Al Sweigart

  • Chapter 7: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  • Chapter 11: Web Scraping

• PYTHON CRASH COURSE A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming by Eric Matthes

  • Chapter 15: Generating Data
  • Chapter 16: Downloading Data
  • Chapter 17: Working with APIs

Image Processing and Intro to Machine Learning

• 22-MeanShift.ipynb
• 23-Perceptron Classifier.ipynb
• 24-Neural Networks.ipynb
• 25-OpenCV.ipynb
• 26-Movement Detection.ipynb

The lecture notes in this block are mostly based on the following literature:

• Data Science from Scratch by Joel Grus
  • Chapter 18: Neural Networks
  • Chapter 19: Clustering