Lesson Plans for PyClass
PyClass_PyClassLessons
PyClass
Overview
Abstract
PyClass meets every Monday from 7 to 9 PM (PST) in the "Church" classroom.
The course is free! If you wish to donate, please give to [Noisebridge](https://donate.noisebridge.net).
- Recommended donations: $15, $50, $200+
- Recommended monthly donations: $10, $20, $40, $80+ / month
After class, we welcome your feedback! Submit the form [here](http://goo.gl/oMhxkv)
Contents:
- [Curriculum](#curriculum)
- [Course Description](#class-description-goals-and-ideal-student)
- [New Student Reading](#new-student-reading)
- [OS / Environment / Python Versions](#os--environment--versions)
- [Mailing List](#mailing-list)
### Curriculum
We usually run through a cycle of six core classes (below) over six weeks, then four weeks of guest talks, followed by an off week.
- [JSON and File Handling](course/file-handling-and-json)
- [String Methods and Usage](course/strings)
- [The Sqlite3 Database Library](course/sqlite3)
- [Writing an Algorithm](course/algorithms)
- [Functional Programming in Python](course/higher-order-functions)
- [Intro to Microservices with Flask](course/flask)
### Course Description, Goals, and Ideal Student
The course is designed with the following constraints in mind:
- The barrier to entry is low, but the pace is fast.
- All materials must be made [available on Github](https://github.com/PyClass/PyClassLessons).
- Each lesson stands alone, so it's okay to miss a week!
- The core, repeated modules are regularly updated.
To best experience the course, spend a short time reviewing the materials beforehand. If you wish to know what's scheduled for this week, please join [the mailing list](#mailing-list) and send an email out to PyClass@googlegroups.com
#### Prerequisites
Ideally, students starting the course can grasp the following code. Feel free to use web resources to look up anything you don't understand!
```python
letter_frequency_dict = {}
word = "noisebridge"
for letter in word:
times = letter_frequency_dict.get(letter, 0)
times += 1
letter_frequency_dict[letter] = times
```
#### We use the [Socratic Method](http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/socratic-teaching/606)
A Socratic questioner should
1. keep the discussion focused
2. keep the discussion fact-based\*
3. stimulate the discussion with probing questions
4. periodically summarize what has and what has not been dealt with and/or resolved
5. draw as many students as possible into the discussion.
\* [intellectually responsible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_responsibility) can be effectively replaced with 'fact-based' for our needs.
### New Student Reading
#### Installing Python
For the sake of our sanity, we use Python 2 for this course.
Check out [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/) for help installing Python, learning best practices, and finding useful packages. In an emergency, you can access Python [in your browser](http://repl.it/languages/Python).
#### Python Resources
If you are new to Python or to programming in general, here are some excellent resources:
- [The Official Python 2 Tutorial](https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/)
- [Learn Python the Hardway](http://learnpythonthehardway.org/)
- [Byte of Python](http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/python/)
- [Learning Python, 5th edition](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do) (Also available at the SF public library!)
Once you feel comfortable with the basics of the language, you can explore the standard library!
- [The Official Python 2 Documentation](https://docs.python.org/2/library/)
- [Python Module of the Week](http://pymotw.com/2/)
There are many, many good resources for learning the language of Python and how to do awesome things with it.
Those listed above are just a few based on personal experience and strong recommendations.
#### git
While git is worth learning in general, it will be particularly useful when trying to get the source code for each week's class. Installers are available for [Windows](http://git-scm.com/download/win) and [Mac](http://git-scm.com/download/mac), and Linux users can install via their package manager.
### OS / Environment / Versions
We accept refugees using all operating systems. You will be politely prodded in the direction of solutions that are closer to [POSIX standards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Mostly_POSIX-compliant).
Some options:
1. Use the command line in your Linux or Apple machine.
2. Install a Linux virtual machine on another computer using Virtualbox.
3. Explore [POSIX for windows](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#POSIX_for_Windows)
4. Use a virtual private server (VPS).
- [Digital Ocean $10 Credit](https://m.do.co/c/a4d54c9e5004) An easy way to get a free linux environment. If you are on Windows, you can login with [PuTTY](http://www.putty.org/).
- Amazon's AWS has a [free tier](http://aws.amazon.com/free/) that allows you 750 compute hours every month of their t2.micro instances for 12 months.
- Use EC2 to create an instance from the Ubuntu 16.04 AMI for the most well known and supported platform.
### Mailing List
Sign up for the [Noisebridge Python Mailing List](https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/python) to hear updates and conversations regarding the course!
The mailing list uses GNU Mailman and pipermail. To search archives you may find it helpful to download the archive `.tar.gz` (compressed) file and use regular expressions (`grep`) to search.
The Python Class Google Group Closed on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015.
The course is free! If you wish to donate, please give to [Noisebridge](https://donate.noisebridge.net).
- Recommended donations: $15, $50, $200+
- Recommended monthly donations: $10, $20, $40, $80+ / month
After class, we welcome your feedback! Submit the form [here](http://goo.gl/oMhxkv)
Contents:
- [Curriculum](#curriculum)
- [Course Description](#class-description-goals-and-ideal-student)
- [New Student Reading](#new-student-reading)
- [OS / Environment / Python Versions](#os--environment--versions)
- [Mailing List](#mailing-list)
### Curriculum
We usually run through a cycle of six core classes (below) over six weeks, then four weeks of guest talks, followed by an off week.
- [JSON and File Handling](course/file-handling-and-json)
- [String Methods and Usage](course/strings)
- [The Sqlite3 Database Library](course/sqlite3)
- [Writing an Algorithm](course/algorithms)
- [Functional Programming in Python](course/higher-order-functions)
- [Intro to Microservices with Flask](course/flask)
### Course Description, Goals, and Ideal Student
The course is designed with the following constraints in mind:
- The barrier to entry is low, but the pace is fast.
- All materials must be made [available on Github](https://github.com/PyClass/PyClassLessons).
- Each lesson stands alone, so it's okay to miss a week!
- The core, repeated modules are regularly updated.
To best experience the course, spend a short time reviewing the materials beforehand. If you wish to know what's scheduled for this week, please join [the mailing list](#mailing-list) and send an email out to PyClass@googlegroups.com
#### Prerequisites
Ideally, students starting the course can grasp the following code. Feel free to use web resources to look up anything you don't understand!
```python
letter_frequency_dict = {}
word = "noisebridge"
for letter in word:
times = letter_frequency_dict.get(letter, 0)
times += 1
letter_frequency_dict[letter] = times
```
#### We use the [Socratic Method](http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/socratic-teaching/606)
A Socratic questioner should
1. keep the discussion focused
2. keep the discussion fact-based\*
3. stimulate the discussion with probing questions
4. periodically summarize what has and what has not been dealt with and/or resolved
5. draw as many students as possible into the discussion.
\* [intellectually responsible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_responsibility) can be effectively replaced with 'fact-based' for our needs.
### New Student Reading
#### Installing Python
For the sake of our sanity, we use Python 2 for this course.
Check out [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/) for help installing Python, learning best practices, and finding useful packages. In an emergency, you can access Python [in your browser](http://repl.it/languages/Python).
#### Python Resources
If you are new to Python or to programming in general, here are some excellent resources:
- [The Official Python 2 Tutorial](https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/)
- [Learn Python the Hardway](http://learnpythonthehardway.org/)
- [Byte of Python](http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/python/)
- [Learning Python, 5th edition](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do) (Also available at the SF public library!)
Once you feel comfortable with the basics of the language, you can explore the standard library!
- [The Official Python 2 Documentation](https://docs.python.org/2/library/)
- [Python Module of the Week](http://pymotw.com/2/)
There are many, many good resources for learning the language of Python and how to do awesome things with it.
Those listed above are just a few based on personal experience and strong recommendations.
#### git
While git is worth learning in general, it will be particularly useful when trying to get the source code for each week's class. Installers are available for [Windows](http://git-scm.com/download/win) and [Mac](http://git-scm.com/download/mac), and Linux users can install via their package manager.
### OS / Environment / Versions
We accept refugees using all operating systems. You will be politely prodded in the direction of solutions that are closer to [POSIX standards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Mostly_POSIX-compliant).
Some options:
1. Use the command line in your Linux or Apple machine.
2. Install a Linux virtual machine on another computer using Virtualbox.
3. Explore [POSIX for windows](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#POSIX_for_Windows)
4. Use a virtual private server (VPS).
- [Digital Ocean $10 Credit](https://m.do.co/c/a4d54c9e5004) An easy way to get a free linux environment. If you are on Windows, you can login with [PuTTY](http://www.putty.org/).
- Amazon's AWS has a [free tier](http://aws.amazon.com/free/) that allows you 750 compute hours every month of their t2.micro instances for 12 months.
- Use EC2 to create an instance from the Ubuntu 16.04 AMI for the most well known and supported platform.
### Mailing List
Sign up for the [Noisebridge Python Mailing List](https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/python) to hear updates and conversations regarding the course!
The mailing list uses GNU Mailman and pipermail. To search archives you may find it helpful to download the archive `.tar.gz` (compressed) file and use regular expressions (`grep`) to search.
The Python Class Google Group Closed on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015.
Authoring entity
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| PyClass | owner |
Language
English
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| Python |
channels, numpy, django_heroku, refactor_deck, string, hackernews, logging, grequests, rot13, calendar, single_mod_app, pkgutil, json, calculate_mortgage, sys, grocery_list, pycuda, httplib, geventwebsocket, square_grid, mnist, mymodule, math, config, forms, functools, argparse, pdb, wtforms, sqlite3, flask_bootstrap, random, django, simple_unittest, threading, contextlib, collections, app, sklearn2pmml, sklearn, fractions, example1, asgiref, flask_wtf, copy, sqlalchemy, decimal, utils, urlparse, curses, enchant, scrapy, requests, os, flask, gevent, pandas, range_func, hypothesis, csv, elasticsearch, example_tree, queue, lib, codecs, recordtype, users, time, listutils, flask_sockets, websocket, pprint, datetime, clean_cards, __future__, matplotlib, timeit, PIL, psycopg2, conf_and_views, unittest, itertools, alembic, operator, models, pyopencl, gr_list, guppy, re, pypandoc, flask_restful, keyword, inspect, pickle, this
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| Mako | |
| Jupyter Notebook | |
| Shell | |
| Perl |
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| MIT License |
Metadata production
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|---|---|
| GitHub Bot | bot |
Date of Production
01 December 2019