Summary

• 💻 Welcome to the Alta3 Research Lab Environment

Up and Running

• 💻 Using Vi and Vim

• 💻 Using VSCode

• 💻 Python IDEs

Certification

• 💻 Alta3 Research Python Certification (OPTIONAL)

AI LLM Toolkit

• 💻 Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance

Software Control Management

• 💻 SCM Option #1 - GitHub

• 💻 SCM Option #2 - GitLab

Basics

• 💻 Installing Python

• 💬 Python Basics

• 💻 The Shebang Line and File Permissions

• 💻 The Standard Library, functions, and print()

• 💻 Collecting user input()

Common Objects

• 💬 Python Lists

• 💻 Working with Lists

• 💻 List Objects and Methods

• 💻 Slicing complex lists (lists within lists)

• 💬 Python Dictionaries

• 💻 Python Dictionaries

• 💻 Getting dir(obj) help() and pydoc

• 💬 Python Strings

• 💻 String Methods

Interacting with the OS

• 💻 Copying Files and Folders

• 💻 Moving and Renaming Files and Folders

Conditionals

• 💬 Conditionals

• 💻 Testing if conditionals

• 💻 IPv4 Testing with if

• 🏆 Writing your own if-logic script

• 💻 Using while, if, elif, else (Monty Python)

• 💻 Debugging and Troubleshooting while, if, elif, else

Loops

• 💻 Introduction to looping

• 💻 Looping with for

• 💻 Using for, range(), and with

Working with Files

• 💬 Reading and Writing to Files

• 💻 Parsing Log Files

• 💻 Creating Output Files from Data Sets

• 💻 Read from Files

• 💻 Archive with zipfile

Beyond Basics

• 💻 Creating Functions

• 💻 pip, import and PyPi Packages to Know

• 💻 Exploring Network Interfaces

• 💻 Defining Functions

• 💻 Scripting Commands with Python

• 💻 try and except

Working with Data Sets

• 💻 Producing Graphs and Charts

• 💻 os.walk() the Directory Tree

• 💻 Excel JSON and CSV - Intro to Pandas

• 💬 Converting JSON to Python Data Types

• 💻 Python, APIs, and JSON

• 💻 requests library - Open APIs

Regular Expressions

• 💻 Searching with Regular Expressions

• 💻 Use RegEx to Search Text

Testing and Tools

• 💻 Best Practice and pylint

• 💻 Testing code with pytest

• 💻 Packaging Python Projects

Classes and Objects

• 💻 Creating Classes

• 💻 Inheritance

• 💻 Using Classes

Self-Study Opportunities

• 💻 Running Python Scripts with Crontab

• 💻 Argument Parsing

• 💻 Unpacking Arguments

• 💻 Automating SMTP and Extended SMTP

• 💻 XML Parsing with ElementTree

• 💻 Timestamping - import time datetime

Appendix

• 💬 Glossary

• 🏆 Working with List and Dictionary Data

• 🏆 for loop

• 💻 Live Labs

• 🏆 Code Repair

• 🏆 Dictionaries

• 🏆 Complex Data Slicing

• 💻 If name == “main”

• 🏆 Number Guessing Game

• 🏆 Conditionals Troubleshooting

• 🏆 Looping Vampires

• 🏆 More Cheats

Continuing Education

• 💬 Planning & Consulting with Alta3 Research

• 💻 Continuing Education

• 💬 Curriculum Path: Developer

• 💬 Curriculum Path: NetDevOps