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Well my PyCon tuto­r­ial got shot down. Part of me expected it: It was aimed at fairly new Python pro­gram­mers (and it’s also the first tuto­r­ial of that type I’ve put together out­side of work that’s aimed at this type of audience).

For those of you who care, here is the out­line. I prob­a­bly should have added a lot of spit and pol­ish, but I waf­fled about sub­mit­ting it and misstepped.

Intro­duc­tion to Python, with­out the Bells and Whis­tles, but bat­ter­ies included!

Intended audi­ence: This talk assumes lit­tle to no famil­iar­ity with Python, and is geared towards new devel­op­ers. Some script­ing knowl­edge and/or pro­gram­ming knowl­edge is required.

Sum­mary of pro­posed pre­sen­ta­tion:
This talk focuses on the new python pro­gram­mer, intro­duc­ing them to the “python way” — every­thing from types to basic python struc­tures, this talk focuses on the meat-and-potatoes aspect of get­ting started, find­ing infor­ma­tion and build­ing the basic appli­ca­tion. Mod­ules that are not in the stan­dard library are not cov­ered, as well as platform-specific dif­fer­ences between modules/CPython implementations.

Pre­sen­ta­tion outline:

Python: Get­ting Started

• The inter­ac­tive interpreter
  • Hello World

What’s the difference?

• Mod­ules (What is a module?)
• Pack­ages (What is a package?)
• Scripts (What is a script/application?)

Name­spaces

• The PYTHONPATH
  • sys.path()
• What is a namespace?
• How import(s) affect the namespace

Build­ing up the Basic script ( hello world )

• Basic PEP 8 guidelines
• Start­ing with a #!
• What is __main__?
  • explain what hap­pens when the if __name__ check does not exist, but a func­tion call like main() exists, how does this affect import?

The Stan­dard Library

• Where to get infor­ma­tion on the web
• How to use dir() and help() inside the interpreter
• Pydoc
• Find­ing exam­ples on the web

• • Python-Dev
  • Python-Tutors
  • Google Code search
  • Krugle

A quick Type overview

• strings, ints, floats and longs
• dicts, lists, tuples
• Booleans
• Find­ing the type()

Built In Functions

• str() and it’s methods
• file()
  • basic I/O with file
• dir()
• Where to find more infor­ma­tion on builtins

Basic Code Structure(s)

• If, For, While
• Loops and Range
• Com­pre­hen­sions
• Gen­er­a­tors at a glance

Func­tions

• argu­ments by name, position
• *kwargs, *args, *kvargs
• Func­tion Scope

Fun­da­men­tal Low Level packages:

• os/os.path
• sys
• sub­process in brief (sim­ple: Not plat­form specific)

Classes and Objects

• The basic class struc­ture, self, __init__
• Meth­ods
• Scope/Namespace
• Inher­i­tance at a glance
• mul­ti­ple inheritance

Excep­tions

• Basic builtin exceptions
• Mak­ing your Own
• When to raise

Well my PyCon tuto­r­ial got shot down. Part of me expected it: It was aimed at fairly new Python pro­gram­mers (and it’s also the first tuto­r­ial of that type I’ve...