Learn about how to use the Python language and its constructs in different situations. With classification of scenarios done already you can use this material as a reference guide too. Learn the language and its idioms by trying out the sample code or by looking at code snippet. This presentation was created for Next Craft JMP Student Program to help students jump start with Python programming.

1. Examples in Python

2.  Python is a programming language with strengths of both functional and object-oriented
programming.
 Here I will present common problems and their solutions that you might use while
starting coding in Python.
 You may use this material as a reference.
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3.  One who has began learning Python.
 One who has made oneself acquainted with concepts of Python taught in
codecademy.com Python course.
 One who wishes to learn the idioms of python to solve problems in pythonic way.
 One who is interested in free, good content. 
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4.  Learn by Doing: Here are examples of python code used in different scenarios.
 You can try to pick the concepts and then mould them to use in your own
situation.
 Use of Classes, Exceptions, rest of Standard Library not covered here.
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5.  Let us suppose we have a file containing a student’s SGPAs from 8 semesters and
we would like to write a new file with CGPA.
 SGPA.txt , has list of numbers in different lines.
 Generating CGPA.txt from SGPA.txt
 We will first read the SGPA.txt file line by line,
 Then accumulate the values into a single variable,
 Then calculate CGPA value and write that back into a new file.
Try out yourself with sample
data
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6. Code
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7.  Let us suppose you have a list of SGPAs on scale of 10 and from it you want to
calculate CGPA on scale of 4.
 We will do this in two ways,
 Using for loop,
 Using map, reduce (they are not as scary as they may sound)
 The ways of coding this by map, reduce etc. are less verbose and more
transportable.
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8. Using for loop
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9. Using Reduce
Using Map/Reduce
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10.  In Python the data structure of Map is implemented in Dictionary.
 A map is a structure to store <key, value> relationships.
 Suppose you need to compute sum of squares of given odd numbers that can not
be smaller than 1 and larger than 99
 In the example, we will pre compute as the limits are small and return answers
from a dict.
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11. Code.
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12.  From the older sgpa example, if we wish to filter out the sgpa from list that were
more than 8.5.
 From the older odd_squares example, if we wish to filter out the odd squares
where the number is a multiple of 3.
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13.  Here we will validate data sent our way with regular expressions. You can also use
them for search, match and replace.
 Suppose we want input from user to be a number, here is how to gracefully handle
this requirement.
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14.  Unit testing is a very important aspect of software development. In Python, you
can find extensive support for unit testing you code.
 With unit testing we can test single functions, classes or whole modules.
 Having code and test separately and testable is a prime software development
requirement.
 This fact is elicited in this advice that developers get from creator of Unit testing
framework for Small talk, (one of the first or may be the first frameworks).
 I recommend that developers spend 25-50% of their time developing tests.
 Quoted from - http://www.xprogramming.com/testfram.htm
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15.  Here is a sample of code and test files.
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16. Please let me know in the comments if I am missing any general scenarios, which
you would like to see in the examples here.
I will be more than happy to extend this presentation.
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17.  Python Reference – The best guide on Python out there.
 Codecademy – Beginner course on Python, totally free .
 http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ - If you want to develop a deep sense of
knowledge of Python, venture here.
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18. Find me at @ashish424242 and @kartaa.
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