Week 1
Lesson 1
Functions with parameters, variable scope
Taking a deeper look at Functions (we started that back in Part 2), we find out how to pass different types of parameters into our user-defined functions.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Reading from external files
External files (text files, data files) are a great way to store data and share it between programs or sessions. Today we start using external files by reading data in from them.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Writing to external files, pickling, shelving
Once your program has modified existing data (that it read in) or generated new data, we need to be able to write it out to a file. Today we see how straightforward that is to do in Python.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Exceptions
If the user does something wrong, your program could crash. We want to prevent that. Catch the user's error, fix it, and move on. This is Exception Handling.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Object Oriented Programming
Many programming languages focus on the idea of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), where the focus is creating 'objects' that can solve problems, or be used in solving problems. We start looking at how Python handles creating these objects.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
OOP Part 2 - Inheritance, Polymorphism
More about Object Oriented Programming. Specifically setting objects to have constructors and destructors (for setup and cleanup) and how to start giving objects functionality - the ability to do things.
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Graphics with Python
Python has the ability to draw objects (lines, shapes, fills) to the screen, as well as create windows, buttons, and forms!