Programming with Python

Explore built-in Python functions such as print, input, and format to test code in the console, display outputs, and format strings with placeholders.

Explore Python syntax by comparing it with C-like languages, highlighting indentation-driven blocks, optional parentheses, and the colon rule, making Python beginner-friendly and highly readable.

Explore Python identifiers, names for objects like variables and functions, with rules for starting with letters or underscores, case sensitivity across platforms, and avoiding reserved words.

Explore Python documentation sources, including hash comments, the Derf function to list object attributes, and docstrings, then use P-doc, standard manuals, and web resources like Python.org.

Create an invoice program with conditionals and type conversions to determine discounts for retail and wholesale customers, then calculate and display the final invoice total.

Explore lab 3 in programming with Python, using a for loop from 1 to 20 and the modulus operator to print each number as even or odd.

Create a user defined Python module with Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion functions and a main testing routine, then learn how to import this module into another program.

Learn to use Python's standard modules by importing them and calling their functions to extend program capabilities. The lecture highlights the random module with dice rolls and other examples.

Build a Python temperature converter that lets users choose Fahrenheit to Celsius or Celsius to Fahrenheit, enter a degree, and view the converted result via a menu.

Learn how anonymous functions work in Python with lambda to create unnamed function objects, compare it with def, and use them inline with map and filter for list processing.

Discover python string techniques by using the repetition operator to repeat text, the in operator to search substrings, and for loops to iterate characters and print ordinal values.

Explore basic Python string methods such as isalpha, isdigit, isnumeric, isalnum, isdecimal, isspace, startswith, and endswith, with practical examples using a movie title and year.

Learn basic Python string methods for case handling, including capitalize, lower, upper, swapcase, and title, with practical examples like Monty Python phrases and islower/isupper checks.

Learn how the decimal module yields exact decimal numbers for precise financial calculations, creating decimals from strings, mixing with integers (not floats), and rounding via quantize.

Learn to create datetime objects by parsing user input strings with parse time and format strings, using codes like %d, %m, %Y, %H, %M, and %S for hotel reservation workflows.

Compare date and time objects to determine the elapsed time between arrival and departure dates and compute the corresponding hotel stay cost using the days elapsed.

Create a simple employee management program that uses a list to store employees. Users can show all employees, add new ones, delete existing ones, and exit the program.

Open, read, and write files in Python to persist data across sessions, using text and binary types, and serialize objects with pickle. Remember to close files to release resources.

Learn how to write a Python list to a text file and read it back into the console, using for loops, newline handling, and file open modes.