Python “Coaching” (Ongoing)

A custom made intro to Python to people who already write programs in that language. Done in chunks of a few hours each.

Course Info

• Material: Python Programming

• Git repo: https://codeberg.org/jfasch/2026-07-26

2026-07-27

Setup

• Python Installation

• Visual Studio Code for Python Programming

Datatypes

• Blahblah

• Hello World

• Running Python Programs

• Syntax etc.

• Commandline Arguments (sys.argv)

• Variables

• Datatypes

• Compound Datatypes

• Boolean

Exercises

• Exercise: Mixed List (Interactive Interpreter)

• Exercise: Mixed List (Executable Program)

• Exercise: Digit to English Word

2026-07-30

More On Datatypes

• Sequential Datatypes

• Indexing and Slicing

• References, (Im)mutability

• More About Strings

• Miscellaneous String Methods

• More About Lists

• More About Dictionaries

• More About Sets

• Comprehensions (List, Dictionary, Set)

2026-09-10

Modules, And The import Statement

• Modules and Packages

Object Oriented Programming

• Classes And Dictionaries

• Constructor

• Methods

• Properties

• collections.namedtuple

2026-XX-XX

Jupyter Notebook

• Notebook Demo
• Using draw(steps) from package course_utils

Rest

• logging

• gettext (qt/tr?), bind existing qt code?

• pytest

• venv

• dll, ctypes