Python Programming – from basics to advanced

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 15 questions each teaching day · No negative marking. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: How programs work and where Python fits
2. Tuesday: Install Python and run your first program
3. Wednesday: Variables, values and useful types
4. Thursday: Input, output and formatting
5. Friday: Expressions, operators and conversions
6. Saturday: Build a simple bill calculator
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 15 questions each teaching day · No negative marking. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Boolean expressions and comparisons
2. Tuesday: Make decisions with if and elif
3. Wednesday: Repeat work with for and range
4. Thursday: Use while loops safely
5. Friday: Nested loops, break and continue
6. Saturday: Build a number-guessing game
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 15 questions each teaching day · No negative marking. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Define functions with parameters and return values
2. Tuesday: Scope and the lifetime of a variable
3. Wednesday: Default and keyword arguments
4. Thursday: Slice and search strings
5. Friday: Format and validate text
6. Saturday: Build a reusable text-analysis toolkit
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Lists and common list operations
2. Tuesday: Tuples and unpacking
3. Wednesday: Dictionaries for structured records
4. Thursday: Sets and membership
5. Friday: Comprehensions with readable conditions
6. Saturday: Build a student-marks analyser
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Read and write UTF-8 text files
2. Tuesday: Work with paths using pathlib
3. Wednesday: Read and write CSV records
4. Thursday: Encode and decode JSON
5. Friday: Handle exceptions and clean up resources
6. Saturday: Build a file-based expense tracker
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Organise a program into modules
2. Tuesday: Use the Python standard library
3. Wednesday: Create virtual environments and install packages
4. Thursday: Declare dependencies and reproduce an environment
5. Friday: Read documentation and debug with tracebacks
6. Saturday: Package a command-line utility
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Classes, instances and attributes
2. Tuesday: Instance methods and constructors
3. Wednesday: Encapsulation and properties
4. Thursday: Composition and inheritance
5. Friday: Dataclasses and useful special methods
6. Saturday: Build a small library-management model
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Iterators and iterable protocols
2. Tuesday: Generators and lazy processing
3. Wednesday: Functions as values and useful lambdas
4. Thursday: Write a simple decorator
5. Friday: Use context managers
6. Saturday: Build a streaming log analyser
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Write unit tests with pytest
2. Tuesday: Test boundaries and expected failures
3. Wednesday: Use fixtures and isolate external dependencies
4. Thursday: Add type hints and inspect a type-checking report
5. Friday: Use logging and configuration safely
6. Saturday: Refactor and test the expense tracker
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Understand HTTP and JSON APIs
2. Tuesday: Call an API with timeouts and error handling
3. Wednesday: Store records in SQLite
4. Thursday: Query with parameters and transactions
5. Friday: Design a small CRUD service
6. Saturday: Build an API-backed data utility
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Recognise CPU-bound and I/O-bound tasks
2. Tuesday: Use threads for independent I/O
3. Wednesday: Understand async and await
4. Thursday: Limit concurrent requests and handle cancellation
5. Friday: Plan and implement a capstone feature
6. Saturday: Test, document and demonstrate the capstone
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons

Six 40-minute teaching sessions and a 60-minute Sunday recap. 30 questions each teaching day · −⅓ per incorrect answer. No test on Sunday.

1. Monday: Review problem-solving patterns
2. Tuesday: Read unfamiliar code and fix a defect
3. Wednesday: Profile a slow operation and improve it
4. Thursday: Protect secrets and validate untrusted input
5. Friday: Complete a timed coding rehearsal
6. Saturday: Present the capstone and prepare for the final assessment
7. Sunday: Recap and guided review of these six lessons