All Episodes

1.1 Why Program

1.2 Hardware Architecture

1.3 Python as a Language

1.4 What do we Say to Python?

Installing Python 3 on a Macintosh

Code Walkthrough: Hello World

2.1 Building Blocks of Python

2.2 Expressions

Code Walkthrough: Exercise 2.2

Code Walkthrough: Exercise 2.3

3.1 If-Then-Else

3.2 More Conditional Statements

Code Walkthrough: Exercise 3.1

Code Walkthrough: Exercise 3.2

4.1 Using Pre-Defined Functions

4.2 Building our Own Functions

Code Walkthrough: Exercise 4.6

5.1 The Basics of Loops

5.2 Definite Loops

5.3 Patterns for Making Loops

5.4 Loop Techniques

Worked Exercise: Exercise 5.1

6.1 Storing Text Data in Strings

6.2 String Operations

Worked Example: Exercise 6.5

7.1 Reading Files

7.2 Processing Data in Files

Worked Example: Exercise 7.1

8.1 Creating and Using Lists

8.2 Manipulating Lists

8.3 Strings and Lists

Worked Exercise: Chapter 8

9.1 Python Dictionaries

9.2 Building Histograms

9.3 Counting Words in Text

Worked Exercise: Dictionaries

10.1 Understanding Tuples

10.2 Sorting Data

Worked Example: Sorting Dictionaries

11.1 Introduction to Regular Expressions

11.2 Matching and Extracting Data

11.3 String Parsing with Regular Expressions

12.1 Network Technology (TCP/IP)

12.2 Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP)

12.3 Building a Web Browser in Python

Worked Example: Sockets

12.4 Unicode Characters and Strings

12.5 Retrieving Web Pages

Worked Example: Using urllib

12.6 Parsing Web Pages

Worked Example: Parsing HTML

13.1 Data on the Web

13.2 eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Worked Example: XML

13.3 XML Schema

13.4 JavaScript Object Notation

Worked Example: JSON

13.5 Service Oriented Approach (SOA)

13.6 Using Application Programming Interfaces

Worked Example: GeoJSON

13.7 Securing API Requests

Worked Example: Twitter and OAuth

14.1 Object Oriented Definitions and Terminology

14.2 Our First Class and Object

14.3 Object Life Cycle

14.4 Object Inheritance

15.1 Relational Databases

15.2 Single Table SQL

Worked Example: Storing Twitter Data

15.3 Building a Relational Model

15.4 Database Key Types

15.5 Representing Relationships in Database Tables

15.6 Multi-Table Retrieval using JOIN

Worked Example: Multiple Tracks

15.7 Many-to-Many Relationships

Worked Example: Many-to-Many

16.1 Visualizing Map Data

Worked Example: Retrieving Geocoded Data

16.2 Building a Web Search Engine

Worked Example: A Web Crawler

Worked Example: Running PageRank

Worked Example: Visualizing PageRank

16.3 Processing Mail Data

Worked Example: Retrieving Email Data

Worked Example: Cleaning and Modelling Mail Data

Worked Example: Visualizing Mail Data