Advanced Python Seminar

This repository contains the slides and all accompanying files from a crash course seminar on advanced topics in Python that I gave to CS grad students and to members of the StartupStorm club at the University of British Columbia.

The topics that were covered in this seminar are:

• lambda expressions
• map, reduce, and filter
• list, dictionary, and generator comprehensions
• @decorators

1. Add auto-complete and history keeping to your interpreter (optional)

• Download the .pystartup file and put it in your home directory
• Add the following to your .bashrc or .bash_profile file: export PYTHONSTARTUP=$HOME/.pystartup

2. Download the seminar file

• seminar.py

3. Start your interpreter

• In a terminal, run python in the same directory as seminar.py
• Type import seminar

4. Learn Advanced Python

• Follow the presentation.