Workshop: Introduction to Python programming for non-programmer II

Introduction to Python programming for non-programmer II (2 lessons)

Date: 9 Aug and 16 Aug

Time: 14:30 - 17:00

Target Audience: All Students

Medium of Instruction: English

Pre-requisite: Preferably taken "Workshop: Introduction to Python programming for non-programmer I"

What you will learn

• Understand the concept and the aim of object-oriented programming (OOP)
• Create an object blueprint by defining a class
• Create an object from a defined class
• Initialize instance attributes of a class
• Define instance methods of a class
• Create a child class that inherits properties from the parent class
• Create a protected variable of a class which cannot be accessed outside the class
• Create a private variable of a class which cannot be accessed outside, within or by a subclass
• Create a game from scratch to summarize what have learnt in the two courses
  
  

Course outline

(1) Lesson 1

• Object-oriented programming

1. Defining a class and creating an object

2. Instantiate an object: the __init__method

3. Creating class method

4. Inheritance: parent class vs child class

5. Encapsulation: protected member vs private member

(2) Lesson 2

• Guided project: Building a tic-tac-toe game to play between humans or play against the computer/ Solving sudoku by backtracking algorithm