Curriculum

• What is Programming?
• Why Python?
• Installing Python
• Setting up an IDE
• Writing your first program (Hello, World!)

• Python syntax rules: whitespace, indentation, comments
• Variables and data types (int, float, str, bool)
• User input and output
• Type conversion and casting

• Conditional statements (if, elif, else)
• Logical operators
• Loops: for and while
• Using break and continue

• Strings and string manipulation
• Lists and list operations
• Tuples and sets

• Dictionaries: creating, updating, accessing
• Nested dictionaries and lists

• Defining and calling functions
• Return values
• Function arguments (default, keyword, variable-length)
• Scope: local vs global

• File operations: read, write, append
• Importing and using built-in modules
• Creating and using custom modules

• List, dictionary, and set comprehensions
• Lambda functions
• map(), filter(), reduce()

• Creating classes and instances
• __init__() constructor
• Attributes and methods

• Inheritance and overriding methods
• Polymorphism
• Encapsulation and abstraction

• Static and class methods
• Special methods: __str__, __repr__, etc.
• Introduction to unit testing with unittest

• try-except blocks and custom exceptions
• Reading/writing JSON and CSV

• Decorators
• Context managers (with statement)

• Multithreading and multiprocessing basics
• Command-line arguments with argparse

• Using virtual environments
• Installing packages with pip
• Introduction to logging