Practical Programming in Python (TIETA19)

Julkaistu

General course information

NOTE: These are general information pages about the course. The active course pages (exercise tasks etc.) are hosted at WETO (https://wetodev.rd.tuni.fi/) where you may login using your basic university account.

TIETA19 Practical programming in Python was a 5 ECTS course that aims to provide the participating students with basic programming skills in the Python programming language. The course concentrates on Python 3 (= the current modern Python; it is slightly different from the older Python 2).

The course has been phased out at and can no longer be taken for ETCS credits. You may still use the course material for self-study/practice.

About the course contents

Python is generally regarded as one of the most simple, yet powerful, generic programming languages to learn. In part due to this, the course does not have any specific background knowledge requirements. But having previous experience about programming will obviously make the course easier. Be warned that some of the course exercise tasks may feel difficult for complete programming newbies.

The automatically graded exercise tasks form the core of the course. In addition to them, the course has very little own dedicated material. The course WETO pages do contain some example code, but as far as more comprehensive teaching material is concerned, you are encouraged to use freely available Python resources on the internet. The course WETO pages provide links to some such learning resources.

The course exercise tasks seek to familiarize students with e.g the following central features of Python:

  • Basic syntax (variables, operators, conditional clauses, loops, functions, etc.).
  • Input and output, files.
  • Basic data-structures: tuples, lists, sets and dictionaries.
  • Error handling, exceptions.
  • Modules.
  • Classes, inheritance.
  • Some useful facilities offered by the Python standard library (e.g. for using JSON format, using regular expressions, etc.).