This course covers programming fundamentals using the Python language. Python is interpreted, interactive, and object-oriented. Recommended for general-purpose programming, system administration, or web programming. Topics include classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, design and implementation of abstract data types, dictionaries, lists, list comprehensions, files, modules, and mutable and immutable types.

• Upon successful completion of this course, every student will be able to:

• Develop working and maintainable Python programs that make use of standard and exceptional control flow

• Build and utilize working and maintainable classes in Python programs

• Apply Python data structures to problems that require storing, updating, and retrieving data

• Build and utilize programmer-defined modules in Python programs

• Apply regular expressions to problems that require pattern recognition and substitutions in strings