Advanced Python Programming – Detailed Course Outline
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Section 1 - Functional Programming
- Lambdas
- List Comprehensions
- Set and Dictionary Comprehensions
- Closures and Decorators
- Generators and Coroutines
- Generator Expressions
- Declarative Programming
Section 2 - Systems Programming
- File Descriptors
- Reading and Writing Files
- Files and Directories
- File Locking
- Memory Mapped I/O
- Creating Processes
- Process Management
- Pipes and Signals
Section 3 - Classes and Objects
- New Style Classes
- Inheritance and Mixins
- Properties and Slots
- Static and Class Methods
- Abstract Base Classes
- Method Overriding
- Attributes and Functors
- Decorators and Factories
- Descriptors and MetaClasses
Section 4 - Persistence and Databases
- Shelve and Pickle
- SQL Relational Databases
- Connection, Cursor, Row Objects
- Create, Read, Update, Delete
- Error Handing
- Query Results and Metadata
- Create and Aggregate Functions
- Exporting and Importing
- Transactions and Rollbacks
- Database Objects
Section 5 - Network Programming
- Sockets and Addresses
- Establishing Connections
- TCP Clients and Servers
- UDP Clients and Servers
- UDS Clients and Servers
- Network Objects
- SocketServers
- Secure Sockets Layer
Section 6 - Web Programming
- JSON and XML
- Using XML-RPC
- Rest Interfaces
- WSGI and HTML
- Flask Framework
- Controller Functions
- Templates and Forms
- Database ORMs
Section 7 - Threads and Concurrency
- Creating and Joining Threads
- Daemon Threads
- Thread Objects
- Timer Threads
- Locks and Semaphores
- Events and Conditions
- Thread Locals
- Thread Queues
- Process Queues and Tasks
- Process Pools
Section 8 - Extending and Embedding Python
- Calling C/C++ from Python
- Using ctypes
- Extension Modules in C/C++
- Raising Python Exceptions
- Calling Python from C/C++
- Embedding Python Interpreter
- Importing Python Modules from C/C++
- Converting Python Objects to C/C++
- Invoking Python Functions from C/C++