Programming with Python

Class overview

There are two programming modules on the syllabus.  The core - required- module is Object Oriented programming 5N0541.  We do another module that covers a sub-set of the OOP syllabus and focusses on functional programming - 5N2927.  All of the components in this module are part of the OOP syllabus. 

The "Main Text" is linked to. There are also videos, quizzes, discussion boards, interactive versions of the book and pdfs that you can print. 

Lessons and exercises 

Under the Course page, I'm adding information here that is absent from the book chapter, or perhaps not covered in sufficient detail.  Please reference the relevant chapter as required reading for each part.  The following is a rough guide to the sequence of topics- some concepts are introduced early on and then examined later in more detail.

1) Basic section (Chapters 1-2) for: 

• Structuring (Flowcharts) 

• Variables and casting 

• Operators (arithmetic and logical) 

• Basic functions (print, input and help) 

2) Decision Making (Chapters 3 and 5) for: 

• If, elif and else (just this so far) 

• While loops (just while so far) 

3) Functions (Chapter 4) 

• Types of functions 

• Docstrings 

• Doctest 

• Helper functions (input and output statements) 

4) Strings (Chapter 6) 

• Class str and it's methods 

• Indexing 

• Slicing and concatenation (adding) 

5) Lists (Chapter 8) and tuples (Chapter 10) 

• methods 

• Indexing 

• Mutability vs. immutable 

6) Modularisation- see notes in that section.  Similarity with chapter 14 

• Importing files and functions 

• Game Development 

• Namespaces 

7) Dictionaries (Chapter 9) 

• Key value pairs 

• Methods 

• Creation 

• Modifying 

8) Files (Chapter 7) 

• Filetypes

• Read (Parse) / Write 

9) OOP (Chapter 14)  {OOP Module Only} 

• Class diagrams 

• Design and implement classes 

• Dunder (special) methods