Course Content

Module 1: Creating and Distributing Packages

Objectives covered by the module

• Using pip
• Basic directory structure
• The pyfile
• Sharing, storing, and installing packages
• Documentation
• License
• Testing principles and techniques
  • unittest– Unit testing framework
  • Pytest– framework to write tests

Module 2: Design Patterns

Objectives covered by the module

• Object-oriented design principles and the concept of design patterns
• The SingletonDesign Pattern
• The FactoryPattern
• The FaçadePattern
• The ProxyPattern
• The ObserverPattern
• The CommandPattern
• The Template MethodPattern
• Model-View-Controller
• The State DesignPattern

Module 3: Interprocess Communication

Objectives covered by the module

• multiprocessing — Process-based parallelism
• threading — Thread-based parallelism
• subprocess — Subprocess management
• Multiprocess synchronisation
  • queue— A synchronized queue class
  • socket— Low-level networking interface
  • mmap— Memory-mapped file support

Module 4: Python Network Programming

Objectives covered by the module

• Python Socket Module
  • Introduction to sockets
  • Server Socket Methods
  • Client socket methods
  • General socket methods
  • Client-Server vs. Peer-to-peer
  • Other Internet modules

Module 5: Python-MySQL Database Access

Objectives covered by the block

• Relational databases – fundamental principles and how to work with them
• MySQL vs. rest of the world
• CRUD Application
  • db connection
  • db create
  • db insert
  • db read
  • db update
  • db delete