Introduction to the language

Placement in the context of other programming languages, history, domain of use, PEP.

Interpretation vs. compilation

Development environments, installation of interpreter and virtual environments, first program, syntax orientation.

Basic data types

Mutability and immutability, numeric data types, integer vs. floating point numbers and their specifics in Python, logical type, collections and sequences (list, tuple, dictionary), formatted output.

Conditions and logical expressions

Cycles and iterations, functions, more complex signatures, anonymous functions

Typing

Python as a dynamically typed language, type hints, docstring, custom data types, match vs. the familiar switch construct.

Exceptions

Exception handling mechanism.

Loading from a file

Context manager and with statement, loading from common file formats, useful and commonly used packages (os, sys, pathlib, datetime, logging).

Introduction of OOP

Introduction of basic concepts, class vs. instance attributes, instance vs. class vs. static methods, magic methods, encapsulation, inheritance, abstract classes, virtual methods, abstract methods.