A comprehensive outline for a Python course that covers everything from basics to mastery. Keep in mind achiving mastery takes time and practice, be patient as you progress through the stages. NB: During the duration of this course, I employ Jupyter Notebook to facilitate interactive learning and simultaneous coding.
- understand what python is and why it's popular.
- install python and set up a development environment
- write your first Python program ("Hello, world").
- learn about variables, data types and basic input/output.
- Explore conditional statements (if, else, elif).
- work with loops (for and while).
- define and call functions.
- understand scope and lifetime of variables.
- Introduce lists, tuples and dictinaries
- learn how to manipulate and access elements in these data structures
- explore string manipulation and formatting
- read and write files in Python3
- work with file objects, modes and exceptions
- understand the principles of OOP
- create classes and objects
- explore inheritance , encapsulation and polymorphism
- learn exception and errors
- implement error handling using try and except
- explore custom exceptions
- import and use modules and libraries
- explore common python libraries
- introduction to third party modules