Intermediate Python

Syllabus

1. Packages and Virtual Environments
   • pip v.s. conda
     • Installing and updating packages
   • Uses of VEnvs
2. Working with exceptions
   • Types of exceptions
   • Catching exceptions
     • try
     • except
3. Debugging and Profiling
   • IPython Magics
   • debugging with pdb
   • Line profiling and optimization
4. Object Oriented Programing (OOP)
   • What is OOP?
   • Creating a class
   • Inheritance
5. Functional programming
   • List comprehensions
   • Lambda functions
   • Predicate calculus: any, all
6. Generator and Iterators
   • iter, next
   • yield statements
7. Decorators
   • Functionality
   • @staticmethod
   • @classmethod
   • @property
8. Concurrency
   • The GIL
   • I/O-bound problems
     • threading
     • asyncio
   • CPU-bound problems
   • multiprocessing
9. Databases
   • SQL
   • Working with databases in python
   • Databases libraries
10. Advanced Pandas
    • Time Series
    • Pandas with SQL
      • SQL Alchemy and pandas
    • Modeling Topics