Course materials & problems for HackBulgaria's Programming 101 with Python. Starting Octomber 2016.

The course is happening thanks to:

• Installing Linux - basic shell commands.
• Python tooling on Linux
• PEP8
• Text Editors - vim, sublime, atom, etc..
• Solving Python problems in order to get familiar with the language

• Getting familiar with Python syntax and basic language & data structures
• Take a look at other languages: Java, Ruby, Node, JS, etc...
• Reading and writing files, JSON

• Getting familiar with basic Python OOP concepts
• Introduction to unittests

• Function(positional and keyword) arguments
• Source control systems - working with git and GitHub
• Working in teams with git and GitHub - branches, merges, pull requests
• Building large console applications with bigger class hierarchy

• Introduction to TDD
• Linked List and Double Linked List
• Binary Search

• Trees, Stack, Queue
• BFS and DFS algorithms

• Working with Graphs
• Finding the shortest path in Graphs
• pip
• virtualenv
• Solving OOP related problems

• Introducing relational database with pure SQL.
• CRUD, JOIN and GROUP BY

• Working with pure SQL - making databases & queries
• Combining Python & SQL - persisting data & state.

• Combining Python & SQL
• Introducing & understanding decorators.
• Understanding the concept behind Python modules & init.py

• Combining Python & SQL - persisting data & state.
• Working with security concepts.
• Mixins, Multiple inheritance

• Introducing the iterator pattern and generators
• Introducing & understanding with blocks.
• Meta-programming with Python

• Starting to implement our own abstraction over the database creation (homemade ORM)
• Understanding the need for an ORM
• Introducing & working with SQLAlchemy
• Making a simple query engine to fetch objects from the database

• World Wide Web - HTTP, Servers

• Django