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date	duration	maintainer	order	title
w01d03	120	zwmiller	4	Python Advanced

Sample Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives

Advanced Python Data Types

The students will:

Be familiar with default dictionaries, named tuples, and deques
Understand the difference between a list and a generator
Be familiar with yield vs return and the purpose of generators
Be exposed to the basics of computational complexity

Deep Copy

The students will:

Understand how the memory is assigned (roughly)
Understand why deep copy is necessary
Know how to deep copy and recognize when it is needed

Pickle: Saving Objects for Later

The students will:

Know what pickling is
Understand how to dump/load an object
Be familiar with how pickle can fit into their workflow

Complexity

The students will:

Be exposed to the basics of computational complexity
Become familiar with the concepts of Big-O notation