Essentials for Advanced Python Programming

The course is a continuation of Fundamentals in Python (Intermediate). It covers more in depth Python’s Object Oriented Programming and some common graph algorithm. It shows how to use Object Oriented Programming to represent various data structures. Particularly, it uses Object Oriented Programming to represent Graph data structure and its algorithm. It also covers Python’s feature for functional programming. This includes higher order function, iterator and decorator.

Who Should Attend

Working professionals who are familiar with Python programming, computing or software engineering. This course is suitable for professionals with a small technical background who plan to enter into software engineering field. It is designed as a continuation for Fundamentals in Python (Intermediate) to cover more topics in Object Oriented Programming, Algorithm and Functional Programming in Python.

Prerequisites

Participants should possess a good understanding of the Python programming language and should have gone through the Fundamentals in Python (Intermediate) course or equivalent.

Programme Outline

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
* Create class definitions with initialization and other methods
* Create stored property and computed property
* Draw Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram of a class with attributes and methods
* Explain has-a relationship
* Discuss object aliasing and copying
* Draw Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram for has-a relationship
* Implement abstract data type for Stack, Queue using Object Oriented paradigm
* Apply Stack and Queue for some applications
* Implement Queue using double Stack and discuss implementation impact on computation time
* Define graph, vertices, edges and weights
* Differentiate directed and undirected graphs
* Define paths
* Create a Vertex class and a Graph class
* Represent graphs using adjacency-list representation or adjacency-matrix representation
* Explain and implement breadth first search algorithm
* Explain and implement depth first search algorithm
* Inherit a class to create a child class
* Explain is-a relationship
* Draw Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram for is-a relationship
* Override operators to extend parent's methods
* Implement Deque data structure as a subclass of Queue

Day 1

Introduction of course
- Introduce students to the course outline and pre-requisite knowledge including Python programming.
Revising Object Oriented Programming
- Revise some basic concept in OOP such as class definition, object instantiation, attribute and methods. How to work with object using dot operator.
Encapsulation
- Covers the idea of encapsulation and how it can be implemented in Python. Getter and Setter function and Property feature in Python.
OOP Exercises
- Use OOP for various programming examples and tasks.

Day 2

Linear Data Structure
- Implementing Stack and Queues using OOP.
Object Composition
- Explain object composition and has-a relationship. Create queue using double stack.
Inheritance
- Explain Inheritance and Open-Close principle.
OOP Exercises
- Using Inheritance in OOP examples.

Day 3

Graph data structure
- Introduce graph data structure and how to represent graph.
Using OOP to represent graph data structure
- Creating Vertex and Graph class.
Graph Traversal algorithm
- Breadth-first search and Depth-first search algorithm
OOP Exercises
- Using OOP to implement BFS and DFS in graph algorithm.

Day 4

Functional Programming basic concept
- Basic idea of data, action and computation
Higher order function
- Passing function as input and returning function as output. Abstraction using function.
Python features for functional programming
- Iterators, map, filter and reduce function.
Functional Programming Exercises
- Programming exercises using functional programming features of Python.

Day 5

Project Consultation
Project Presentation

Assessment

Problem Set,40%
Quizzes, 10%
Project, 50%

Course Fees and Funding

Full course fee inclusive of prevailing GST	You pay S$5,995.00
SkillsFuture Course Fee subsidy (70%) For Singapore Citizens < 40 years old / For Permanent Residents	You pay S$1,798.50
Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy (90%) For Singapore Citizens ≥ 40 years old	You pay S$698.50
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (90%) For SME - Sponsored employees	You pay S$698.50

The above module fee payable is inclusive of 9% GST.
This course is not eligible for the $4,000 credit under SkillsFuture Credit (Mid-Career) top-up scheme.

Instructor

Oka Kurniawan
Senior Lecturer, ISTD
Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD)

Dr Oka Kurniawan is a Senior Lecturer of Information Systems Technology and Design at SUTD.

He graduated from NTU with a PhD in Engineering. He has been teaching computing for the past 13 years. He was also entrusted as the subject lead for the largest programming course in SUTD, a core subject in computer science degree and a software studio for Design and AI degree. He managed to introduce machine learning into the first year programming course in SUTD. He was also awarded SUTD Teaching Excellence in 2018 and his teaching was recognized internationally as Fellow by Advance HE in 2020.

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