Python 2, Introduction
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Course Introduction

 

Core Standards of the Course

Strand 1
Sequence Indexes

Standard 1
Students will be able to:

1. Understand how to work with Jupyter notebooks.
   
2. Understand an index and how it is used.
   
3. Understand how a string is indexed.
   
4. Work with string characters by index.
   

Standard 2
Students will be able to:

1. Slice strings into substrings.
   

Standard 3
Students will be able to:

1. Iterate through string characters.
   

Standard 4
Students will be able to:

1. Use string methods.
   

Performance Skills

• Work with string characters.
• Slice strings into substrings.
• Iterate through string characters.
• Use string methods.

Strand 2
Sequence Manipulation

Standard 1
Students will be able to:

1. Create lists.
   
2. Access items in a list.
   

Standard 2
Students will be able to:

1. Add items to the end of a list.
   

Standard 3
Students will be able to:

1. Modify and insert items into a list.
   

Standard 4
Students will be able to:

1. Delete items from a list by using del, .pop(), and .remove().
   

Performance Skills

• Create lists.
• Access items in a list.
• Add items to the end of a list.
• Insert items into a list.
• Delete items from a list.

Strand 3
Sequence Iteration

Standard 1
Students will be able to:

1. Iterate through Lists using for with in.
   

Standard 2
Students will be able to:

1. Use for range() in looping operations.
   

Standard 3
Students will be able to:

1. Use the list methods .extend(), +, .reverse(), and .sort().
   

Standard 4
Students will be able to:

1. Convert between lists and strings by using .split() and .join().
   

Performance Skills

• Iterate through lists using for and in.
• Use for count in range() In looping operations.
• Use the list methods .extend(), +, reverse(), and sort().
• Convert between lists and strings by using .split9) and .join().
• Cast strings to lists/direct multiple print outputs to a single line.

Strand 4
Working with Files

Standard 1
Students will be able to:

1. Import files into Jupyter notebooks by using the curl command.
   
2. Open and read local files in memory.
   
3. Use .read() to read a specific number of characters.
   

Standard 2
Students will be able to:

1. Use .readlines() to read text from files as a list of lines.
   
2. Use .close() to free system resources.
   

Standard 3
Students will be able to:

1. Use .readline() to read data from a file one line at a time.
   
2. Use .strip() to remove newline characters and other whitespaces.
   

Standard 4
Students will be able to:

1. Use .seek() to set file read and write locations.
   
2. Use file append mode.
   

Performance Skills

• Import files into Jupyter notebooks.
• Open and .read() local files in memory.
• Use .read() to read a specific number of characters.
• Use .readlines() to read data from file as a list of lines.
• Use .readline() to read data from file a line at a time.
• Use .strip() to remove newline characters.
• Use .write() to write data to a new local file.
• Use .seek() to set file read or write location.
• Use file append mode.

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