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Learning Log and Table of Contents

Chapter 0: Introduction

  • Whom Is This Book For?
  • Conventions
  • What Is Programming?
  • About This Book
  • Downloading and Installing Python
  • Starting IDLE
  • How to Find Help
  • Asking Smart Programming Questions
  • Summary

Part 1 - The Basics of Python Programming

Chapter 1: Python Basics

  • Entering Expressions into the Interactive Shell
  • The Integer, Floating-Point, and String Data Types
  • String Concatenation and Replication
  • Storing Values in Variables
  • Your First Program
  • Dissecting Your Program
  • Summary
  • Practice Questions

Chapter 2: Flow Control

  • Boolean Values
  • Comparison Operators
  • Boolean Operators
  • Mixing Boolean and Comparison Operators
  • Elements of Flow Control
  • Program Execution
  • Flow COntrol Statements
  • Importing Modules
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 3: Functions

  • def Statements with Parameters
  • Return Values and Return Statements
  • The None Value
  • Keyword Arguments
  • Local and Global Scope
  • The Global Statement
  • Exception Handling
  • A short Program: Guess the number
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions
  • Practise Project: Collatz Sequence

Chapter 4: Lists

  • The List Data Type
  • Working with Lists
  • Augmented Assignment Operator
  • Methods
  • Example Program: Magic 8 Ball with a list
  • List-like Types: Strings and Tuples
  • References
  • Summary
  • Practice Project: Comma Code
  • Practice Project: Character Picture Grid

Chapter 5: Dictionaries and Structuring Data

  • The Dictionary Data Type
  • Pretty Printing
  • Using Data Structures to Model Real-World Things
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions
  • Practice Project: Fantasy Game Inventory

Chapter 6: Manipulating Strings

  • Working with Strings
  • Useful String Methods
  • Project: Secret Password Locker
  • Project: Adding Bullets to a Wiki Mark-up
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions
  • Practise Project: Table Printer

Part 2 - Automating Tasks

Chapter 7: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions

  • Finding Patterns of Text Without Regular Expressions
  • Finding Patterns of Text Without Regular Expressions
  • More Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  • Greedy and Non-Greedy Matching
  • The Findall() Method
  • Character Classes
  • Making Your Own Character Classes
  • The Caret and Dollar Sign Characters
  • The Wildcard Character
  • Review ofRegex Symbols
  • Case Insensitive Matching
  • Substituting Strings with the sub() Method
  • Managing Complex Regexes
  • Combining re.IOGNORECASE, re.DOTALL and re.VERBOSE
  • Project: Phone Number and Email Address Extractor
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 8: Reading and Writing Files

  • File and File Paths
  • The os.path Module
  • The File Reading/Writing Process
  • Saving Variables with the Shelve Method
  • Saving Variables with the pprint.pformat() Function
  • Project: Generating Random Quiz Files
  • Project: Multiclipboard
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 9: Organizing Files

  • The shutil Module
  • Walking a Directory Tree
  • Compressing Files with the zipfile Module
  • Project: Renaming Files with American-Style Dates to European-Style Dates
  • Project: Backing up a Folder into a ZIP File
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 10: Debugging

  • Raising Exceptions
  • Getting Traceback as String
  • Assertions
  • Logging
  • IDLEs Debugger
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 11: Web Scraping

  • Project: mapIt with the webbrowser module
  • Downloading Files from the Web with request Module
  • Saving Downloaded Files to the Hard Drive
  • HTML
  • Parsing HTML with BeatifulSoup Module
  • Project: Im Feeling lucky Google Search
  • Project: Downloading All XKCD Comics
  • Controlling the Browser with the Selinium Module
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 12: Working with Excel Spreadsheets

  • Excel Documents
  • Installing the openpyxl Module
  • Reading Excel Documents
  • Opening Excel Documents with OpenPyXL
  • Getting Sheets from the Workbook
  • Getting Cells from the Sheets
  • Converting Between Column Letters and Numbers
  • Getting Rows and Columns from the Sheets
  • Workbooks, Sheets, Cells
  • Project: Reading Data from a Spreadsheet
  • Writing Excel Documents
  • Creating and Saving Excel Documents
  • Creating and Removing Sheets
  • Writing Values to Cells
  • Project: Updating a Spreadsheet
  • Setting the Font Style of Cells
  • Font Objects
  • Formulas
  • Adjusting Rows and Columns
  • Setting Row Height and Column Width
  • Merging and Unmerging Cells
  • Freeze Panes
  • Charts
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 13: Working with PDF and Word Documents

  • PDF Documents
  • Decrypting PDFs
  • Creating PDFs
  • Project: Combining Select Pages from Many PDFs
  • Word Documents
  • Reading Word Documents
  • Getting the Full Text from a .docx File
  • Styling Paragraph and Run Objects
  • Creating Word Documents with Nondefault Styles
  • Run Attributes
  • Writing Word Documents
  • Adding Headings
  • Adding Line and Page Breaks
  • Adding Pictures
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 14: Working with CSV Files and JSON Data

  • The CSV Module
  • Reader Objects
  • Reading Data from Reader Objects in a for Loop
  • Writer Objects
  • The delimiter and lineterminator Keyword Arguments
  • Project: Removing the Header from CSV Files
  • JSON and APIs
  • The JSON Module
  • Project: Fetching Current Weather Data
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 15: Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs

  • The time Module
  • Project: Super Stopwatch
  • The datetime Module
  • The timedelta Data Type
  • Review of Python’s Time Functions
  • Multithreading
  • Passing Arguments to the Thread’s Target Function
  • Project: Multithreaded XKCD Downloader
  • Launching Other Programs from Python
  • Passing Command Line Arguments to Popen()
  • Task Scheduler, launchd, and cron
  • Opening Websites with Python
  • Running Other Python Scripts
  • Opening Files with Default Applications
  • Project: Simple Countdown Program
  • Summary
  • Practise Questions

Chapter 16: Sending Email and Text Messages

Chapter 17: Manipulating Images

Chapter 18: Controlling the Keyboard and Mouse with GUI Automation

APPENDIX

A - Installing Third-Party Modules

B - Running Programs

C - Answers to Practice Questions

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