Course materials & problems for HackBulgaria's Programming 101 with Python. Starting November 2015.

• Installing Linux & making first steps with it.
• Setuping Python - text editors, tools, REPL.
• Getting familiar with Python syntax and basic structures by solving problems

• Introducing source control systems & working with git / GitHub
• Working with Linux - basic shell commands & scripts.
• Installing 3rd party libraries and working with the console.

• Introducing the Object Oritented concept in Python
• Solving problems with OOP & building console applications.

• Diving deeper into Python's data structures. Solving problems with list & dict comprehension.
• Diving deeper into Python's OOP concepts - working with dunder methods & iterators

• Introducing exceptions in Python.
• Introducing the Test Driven Development concept
• Working with unittest.
• Solving problems with OOP & tests

• Introducing pip and virtualenv - working with 3rd party libraries
• Making HTTP clients & storing things in files

• Introducing the concept for relational databases & SQL
• Working with SQL databases - sqlite3
• CRUD operations in SQL - SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE
• Different JOINs in SQL
• Working with Python libraries for SQL.

• Teamwork with bigger problems.
• Advanced git and GitHub.
• Sovling problems with everything that we know up to now.

• Introducing the concept for ORM in Python
• Working with SQLAlchemy

• Basic security concepts
• Hashing
• SQL Injection
• Hiding passwords from input
• Bruteforce protections
• Working with legacy code

• Working with Iterators, Generators
• Working with Decorators
• Working with with blocks.
• Working with itertools library
• Figuring out Python's OOP - how does everything work?

• An overview of the language. What do we know about Python?
• How does the Python community work? Seeing some open source projects.
• Seeing interesting stuff in Python:
• Threads
• asyncio
• Celery
• Making things work with Python - doing some basic automation with Raspberry.

• Introducing Django as the web framework for Python
• Building MVC website
• Building REST APIs
• Testing Django code
• Deployment
• Project live cycle
• Continuous integration