The Serpent Codex: Unlocking the

Forbidden Python

Unit 1 – Beginner Topics

1. Introduction to Python

 History of Python
 Features (easy, interpreted, dynamic typing, cross-platform)
 Applications (web, data science, AI, automation, etc.)
 Python 2 vs Python 3 differences
 First “Hello World” program

2. Setting Up Python & IDEs

 Installing Python (Windows/Linux/Mac)

 Checking version (python --version)
 Environment variables (PATH setup)
 Using IDEs (VS Code, PyCharm, Jupyter Notebook)
 Installing packages with pip
 Virtual environment basics (just intro here)

3. Basic Syntax & Structure

 Python script vs interactive shell

 Keywords & identifiers
 Indentation (significance in Python)
 Comments (#, multiline)
 Statement & expression basics
 First program walkthrough

4. Variables & Data Types

 Declaring variables (dynamic typing)

 Multiple assignment, swapping values
 Numbers (int, float, complex)
 Strings (single, double, triple quotes)
 Boolean type (True, False)
 NoneType
 Type conversion (casting: str(), int(), float())
  Checking type (type(), isinstance())

5. Operators

 Arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /, %, //, **)

 Comparison operators (==, !=, >, <, >=, <=)
 Logical operators (and, or, not)
 Assignment operators (=, +=, -=, etc.)
 Identity operators (is, is not)
 Membership operators (in, not in)
 Bitwise operators (&, |, ^, ~, <<, >>)
 Operator precedence & associativity

6. Input & Output

 print() basics
 Printing multiple values
 String formatting: %, format(), f-strings
 Escape characters (\n, \t, etc.)
 User input with input()
 Type conversion of input (string → int, float)

7. Control Flow Statements

 if statement
 if…else statement
 if…elif…else chain
 Nested if
 Conditional expressions (ternary operator)

8. Loops

 for loop (with range, iterables)

 while loop
 Nested loops
 Loop control: break, continue, pass
 else clause with loops

9. Functions & Lambda Expressions

 Defining functions (def)

 Parameters & return values
 Default parameters
  Variable-length arguments (*args, **kwargs)
 Scope (local, global, nonlocal)
 Nested functions
 Lambda functions (anonymous functions)
 Using lambda with map, filter, reduce

10. Data Structures (Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dicts)

 Lists: creation, indexing, slicing, methods (append, extend, pop, etc.)

 List comprehensions (intro only here)
 Tuples: immutability, packing/unpacking
 Sets: uniqueness, operations (union, intersection, difference)
 Dictionaries: key-value pairs, CRUD operations, methods
 Nested data structures (list of dicts, dict of lists, etc.)

11. String Manipulation & Formatting

 String indexing & slicing

 String immutability
 Common methods: upper, lower, strip, split, join, replace, find, count
 String concatenation & repetition
 Escape sequences
 String formatting: %, .format(), f-strings
 Checking string properties (isalnum, isdigit, isspace, etc.)

12. File Handling

 Opening files (open() with modes: r, w, a, b)

 Reading methods: read(), readline(), readlines()
 Writing & appending files
 Closing files
 Using with statement (context manager)
 File paths (absolute vs relative)
 Handling file exceptions

13. Basic Debugging Techniques

 Debugging with print() statements

 Using assertions (assert)
 Debugging with pdb module (set_trace)
 Common beginner errors (IndentationError, TypeError, ValueError, NameError)
 Writing error-free, clean code practices
Unit 2 – Intermediate Topics
14. List Comprehensions & Generators

 List comprehensions: basic, with condition, nested

 Generator expressions
 Generator functions (yield, yield from)
 Iterator vs generator difference
 Memory efficiency (list vs generator)

15. Regular Expressions

 Regex basics (pattern, raw strings)

 Metacharacters (. ^ $ * + ? { } [ ] | \)
 Anchors (^, $)
 Quantifiers (*, +, ?, {m,n})
 Groups (capturing, non-capturing)
 Alternation (|)
 Search, match, findall, split, sub
 Greedy vs non-greedy
 Special sequences (\d, \w, \s, etc.)
 Advanced: Lookahead, lookbehind, backreferences

16. Dates & Times

 datetime module basics

 date objects, time objects, datetime objects
 timedelta (add/subtract dates)
 Formatting: strftime, strptime
 Current timestamp (time.time)
 Conversions between date/time formats
 Advanced: time zones (pytz, zoneinfo)

17. Error & Exception Handling

 try/except/finally/else
 Multiple exceptions in one block
 Exception hierarchy (BaseException, Exception, etc.)
 Raising exceptions (raise)
 Custom exceptions (user-defined classes)
 Using assertions (assert)
 Best practices: catching specific exceptions, not bare except
18. Modules & Packages

 Import system (absolute, relative imports)

 Built-in modules (os, sys, math, random, etc.)
 Module search path (sys.path)
 __pycache__ and .pyc files
 Package structure (folders with __init__.py)

19. Creating & Using Custom Modules

 Writing your own module

 Importing across multiple files
 Using __name__ == "__main__"
 Organizing multi-file projects into packages
 Relative vs absolute imports in custom packages

20. Code Documentation

 Docstrings (PEP 257)

 Single-line and multi-line docstrings
 Accessing docs with help() and __doc__
 Documentation styles (Google, NumPy, reStructuredText)
 Sphinx basics
 MkDocs overview

21. Virtual Environments

 venv basics (create, activate, deactivate)

 pipenv usage (install, uninstall)
 Isolated environments for projects
 requirements.txt (generate and use)
 Best practices for environment management

22. Package Management

 pip install, uninstall, upgrade

 Package metadata (pip show)
 Dependency management
 setuptools basics (setup.py)
 wheel format
 Advanced: publishing packages to PyPI
23. Static Code Analysis, Linting & Formatting

 PEP 8 style guide

 Linting tools: pylint, flake8
 Type checking: mypy
 Auto-formatting: black, isort
 Pre-commit hooks for consistent code style

24. Functional Programming in Python

 Pure functions and immutability

 map(), filter(), reduce()
 Higher-order functions (functions as arguments/return values)
 Recursion basics
 functools module (partial, lru_cache, reduce)
 lambda functions in FP context

25. Control Flow Optimization

 map/filter vs loops (performance comparison)

 List comprehensions vs loops
 Generator expressions vs list comprehensions
 itertools module (chain, cycle, islice, combinations, permutations)
 timeit for performance measurement

26. Decorators & Property Methods

 Function decorators (syntax, purpose)

 functools.wraps
 Multiple/nested decorators
 Practical use cases (logging, timing, authentication)
 @property decorator
 Getter, setter, deleter methods
 Encapsulation and computed attributes

27. Iterators & Iterables

 Iterator protocol (iter, next)

 Built-in iterators (iter(), next())
 Custom iterator classes
 for loop under the hood
 itertools module advanced usage
28. Context Managers

 with statement
 File handling with context
 Custom context managers (enter, exit)
 contextlib utilities (contextmanager, closing, suppress)
 Resource management best practices

29. Type Annotations, Data Classes, Static Type Checking

 Type hints (PEP 484)

 typing module basics (Any, Union, Optional, Dict, List)
 Function annotations
 Variable annotations
 Data classes (@dataclass)
 Default values, frozen dataclasses, ordering
 field() function and metadata
 Static type checking with mypy, pyright
 PEP 561 stub packages

30. Version Control with Git & GitHub

 Git basics: init, add, commit, status, log

 Branching, merging, resolving conflicts
 Staging area vs working directory vs commits
 Remote repos: clone, push, pull, fetch
 Rebasing, stashing, tagging releases
 GitHub workflows (fork, pull requests, issues, project boards)
 Best practices in Git (commit messages, branching strategy)
 Git + Python: .gitignore, managing virtualenvs
 Advanced: CI/CD basics with GitHub Actions

Unit 3 – Advanced Topics

31. Meta-programming & Introspection

 Introspection (type(), id(), dir(), help())

 getattr(), setattr(), hasattr(), delattr()
 Dynamic code execution (exec(), eval())
 Monkey patching
 Creating functions/classes dynamically
 Metaclasses (__new__, __init__)
 Practical use cases of meta-programming
32. Unit Testing & Debugging

 unittest module basics

 Writing test cases & suites
 Assertions (assertEqual, assertTrue, etc.)
 Test discovery & running tests
 Debugging with pdb (set_trace, step, next, continue)
 Debugging in IDEs (breakpoints, watches)
 Writing clean testable code

33. Advanced Testing Strategies (TDD, BDD, pytest)

 Test-Driven Development (TDD) concepts

 Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) basics
 pytest framework (fixtures, parametrize, markers)
 Mocking with unittest.mock
 Coverage reports (coverage.py)
 Continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines

34. Logging & Monitoring Applications

 logging module basics

 Log levels (DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL)
 Log configuration (basicConfig, handlers)
 File handlers, rotating log files
 Structured logging (JSON logs)
 Monitoring using logs
 Logging best practices (avoid sensitive data, correct levels)

35. Working with APIs (Requests & JSON Handling)

 HTTP basics (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

 requests library (get, post, headers, params, timeout)
 Handling response codes
 Sending JSON payloads
 Parsing JSON with json module
 Authentication basics (API keys, tokens, headers)
 Error handling in API requests

36. Database Programming (SQLite, MySQL)

 DB-API basics (sqlite3)

 Connecting to SQLite database
 Creating tables, CRUD operations
 Parameterized queries (avoid SQL injection)
  Transactions & commits
 Using MySQL with Python (mysql-connector, pymysql)
 Handling database exceptions

37. NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Redis)

 NoSQL vs SQL databases

 MongoDB basics (connect, insert, query, update, delete)
 BSON format
 Indexing & querying in MongoDB
 Redis basics (connect, set, get, delete)
 Expiry & caching in Redis
 Use cases (when to use MongoDB vs Redis)

38. ORM with SQLAlchemy

 ORM introduction
 SQLAlchemy basics (engine, session)
 Defining models with classes
 CRUD operations using ORM
 Relationships (one-to-many, many-to-many)
 Query building with ORM
 Alembic migrations (intro)

39. Python for Financial Analysis

 Floating point issues & precision (decimal, fractions)

 Using numpy & pandas for financial data
 Reading stock/CSV/Excel data
 Common financial formulas (NPV, IRR, CAGR)
 Basic portfolio risk analysis
 Visualization of trends (matplotlib, seaborn)

40. Scientific Computing with Python (SciPy, SymPy)

 SciPy basics (optimization, integration, statistics)

 Linear algebra & signal processing
 SymPy basics (symbolic math)
 Expressions, simplification, solving equations
 Calculus with SymPy (derivatives, integrals)
 Use cases in engineering/science

41. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

  pandas for data analysis
 Importing data (CSV, Excel, SQL)
 Cleaning data (handling missing values, duplicates)
 Descriptive statistics (mean, median, std, skewness, kurtosis)
 Correlation & covariance analysis
 Data distribution exploration
 Basic visualization for EDA

42. Data Visualization (Matplotlib, Seaborn)

 matplotlib basics (figures, subplots, labels, titles)

 Line plots, bar charts, scatter plots, histograms
 Seaborn advanced plots (heatmaps, pairplots, violinplots, boxplots)
 Customization (colors, styles, themes)
 Saving plots as images
 Choosing the right plot for data

43. Python for IoT (Internet of Things)

 Basics of IoT with Python

 MicroPython vs full Python
 GPIO programming (Raspberry Pi)
 Reading sensor data (temperature, motion, etc.)
 Writing actuator control programs (LEDs, motors)
 Sending data to cloud/local server
 MQTT basics for IoT communication

44. Ethical Hacking & Cybersecurity with Python

 Cybersecurity basics (CIA triad)

 Writing a port scanner (socket)
 Brute force demo (local passwords)
 Packet sniffing basics (scapy)
 Password hashing & cracking demo (hashlib, bcrypt)
 Vulnerability scanning basics
 Safe educational demos only
 Integration with Kali Linux tools: Nmap, Hydra, Wireshark, sqlmap, Metasploit (in lab environment
only)

45. Secure Coding Practices

 Input validation & sanitization

 Avoiding SQL injection & command injection
 Using parameterized queries
 Proper error handling (no sensitive info in errors)
  OWASP Top 10 basics (XSS, CSRF, etc.)
 Secure storage of sensitive data (hashing, encryption)
 Best practices checklist for secure Python apps

46. Networking & Socket Programming

 Basics of networking (TCP vs UDP)

 socket module usage
 Writing a TCP client & server
 UDP client & server
 Multi-client server basics
 Non-blocking sockets (selectors)
 Real-world apps (chat app, file transfer demo)

Unit 4 – Expert Topics

47. Graph-Based Programming (NetworkX)

 Basics of graphs (nodes, edges)

 Types of graphs (directed, undirected, weighted, multigraphs)
 Creating and visualizing graphs with NetworkX
 Graph traversal (DFS, BFS)
 Shortest paths (Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford)
 Centrality measures (degree, betweenness, closeness)
 Real-world applications (social networks, routing, dependency graphs)

48. Python Internals – Memory Management, Garbage Collection, CPython Architecture

 Python memory model (stack vs heap)

 Reference counting in Python
 Garbage collection (gc module)
 Memory leaks & debugging tools
 Internals of CPython interpreter
 Bytecode (dis module)
 Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
 Overview of alternative implementations (PyPy, Jython)

49. Game Development with Pygame

 Installing and setting up pygame

 Game loop basics
 Surfaces, sprites, blitting
 Event handling (keyboard, mouse)
 Collision detection
  Sound and music
 Simple 2D games (snake, pong, flappy bird)

50. GUI Programming (Tkinter, PyQt, Kivy)

 Tkinter basics (widgets, layout, events)

 PyQt basics (signals, slots, windows, dialogs)
 Kivy basics (cross-platform apps)
 Creating menus, forms, dialogs
 Event-driven programming model
 MVC pattern in GUI apps

51. Web Scraping (Beautiful Soup, Scrapy)

 HTTP basics for scraping

 Parsing HTML with BeautifulSoup
 Navigating DOM, extracting text, attributes
 Handling pagination
 Scrapy basics (spiders, pipelines, middlewares)
 Handling requests, delays, and politeness
 Avoiding scraping traps (robots.txt, captchas)

52. Introduction to Web Development (Flask)

 Flask basics (routes, views, templates)

 Rendering HTML with Jinja2
 Handling GET/POST requests
 Flask forms and request handling
 Serving static files
 Basic session handling

53. Advanced Web Development with Django

 Django project setup

 MTV architecture (Models, Templates, Views)
 ORM basics (models, migrations)
 URL routing, views, templates
 Forms, validation
 Admin panel customization
 Authentication & authorization
 Django REST Framework basics

54. Microservices with Flask/Django

  Monolith vs microservice architecture
 Building microservices with Flask (Blueprints)
 Microservices in Django (Django REST + Docker)
 Communication between services (REST APIs, gRPC)
 Authentication in microservices (JWT)
 Deployment considerations

55. Advanced Deployment Techniques

 Deployment environments (dev, staging, prod)

 WSGI & ASGI basics (gunicorn, uvicorn)
 Docker containerization
 CI/CD pipelines for Python apps
 Cloud deployment basics (Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk)
 Reverse proxies (Nginx)
 Scaling strategies (load balancing, auto-scaling)

56. Asynchronous Programming (asyncio, aiohttp)

 Introduction to concurrency vs parallelism

 Coroutines (async, await)
 Event loop in asyncio
 Tasks & futures
 aiohttp for async HTTP requests
 Async context managers
 When to use async vs threading

57. Performance Optimization (Caching, Profiling)

 Profiling code (cProfile, timeit)

 Memory profiling (memory_profiler)
 Code optimization techniques
 Caching with functools.lru_cache
 Using Redis/Memcached for caching
 Optimizing loops, comprehensions, algorithms
 Avoiding common performance pitfalls

58. Concurrency & Parallelism (Threading, Multiprocessing)

 Difference between concurrency & parallelism

 Threading basics (thread creation, join)
 GIL and threading limitations
 Multiprocessing module (processes, queues, pools)
 Inter-process communication
 Use cases: CPU-bound vs I/O-bound tasks
59. Advanced Concurrency Patterns

 Actor model basics

 asyncio vs threading vs multiprocessing
 Producer-consumer problem
 Task scheduling patterns
 ThreadPoolExecutor & ProcessPoolExecutor
 Concurrency best practices in Python

60. Advanced NLP with Transformers & Large Language Models

 Introduction to Transformers architecture

 Hugging Face Transformers library
 Tokenization (BPE, WordPiece)
 Pretrained models (BERT, GPT, T5)
 Fine-tuning NLP models
 Applications: text classification, summarization, translation
 Ethics and bias in LLMs

61. Explainable AI (XAI) with Python

 Importance of explainability in AI
 SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations)
 LIME (Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations)
 Feature importance methods
 Interpreting deep learning models
 Visualization for explainability

62. Writing Python C Extensions & Accelerating Code with Cython/Numba

 Why extend Python with C

 Basics of Python C API
 Writing and compiling a C extension
 Introduction to Cython (compiling Python to C)
 Using Numba for JIT compilation
 Performance benchmarking (Python vs Cython/Numba)
 Real-world use cases (scientific computing, ML speedups)

Unit 5 – AI & Machine Learning Topics

63. Python for Robotics (Using ROS)
  Basics of Robotics Operating System (ROS)
 Installing and setting up ROS with Python
 ROS nodes, topics, and messages
 Writing simple publisher and subscriber scripts
 ROS services and actions
 Using Python to control robots (movement, sensors)
 Simulation with Gazebo
 Intro to ROS2

64. Deep Learning Basics (TensorFlow, Keras)

 Neural network fundamentals (neurons, layers, activations)

 Introduction to TensorFlow & Keras
 Building a simple ANN (Artificial Neural Network)
 Forward pass & backpropagation
 Loss functions and optimizers
 Training, validation, and testing workflow
 Saving and loading models

65. Building Neural Networks (ANN, CNN, RNN)

 Artificial Neural Networks (ANN): architecture & applications

 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN): filters, pooling, feature extraction
 CNN applications (image recognition, classification)
 Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN): sequences, hidden states
 Applications of RNN (text, speech, time series)
 Training deep neural networks (regularization, dropout, batch norm)

66. Reinforcement Learning (Intro & Algorithms)

 Basics of reinforcement learning (agents, environment, rewards)

 Exploration vs exploitation
 Q-learning algorithm
 Deep Q-Networks (DQN)
 Policy gradient methods
 Applications (games, robotics, decision-making)

67. Advanced AI Concepts (Transformers, GANs)

 Transformer architecture basics (attention, self-attention)

 Pretrained transformer models (BERT, GPT)
 Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): generator & discriminator
 Training GANs
 Applications: image generation, style transfer
 Challenges (mode collapse, stability)
68. AI for Real-Time Applications

 Real-time inference basics

 Optimizing models for latency
 Edge AI (running models on limited hardware)
 Streaming data processing with Python
 Deploying AI on IoT devices
 Examples: object detection on live camera feed, chatbots

69. Natural Language Processing (NLP with NLTK, spaCy)

 Tokenization, stemming, lemmatization

 Stopwords removal
 Part-of-speech tagging
 Named entity recognition (NER)
 Dependency parsing
 Text classification basics
 Sentiment analysis
 spaCy pipelines

70. Natural Language Generation (Text Summarization, Chatbots)

 Basics of NLG
 Extractive vs abstractive summarization
 Sequence-to-sequence models
 Attention mechanism for summarization
 Building a simple chatbot with Python (rule-based)
 Neural chatbot basics (seq2seq with attention)
 Evaluating text generation

71. Advanced Deep Learning (Transfer Learning, BERT)

 Transfer learning basics (pretraining & fine-tuning)

 Using pretrained CNN models (VGG, ResNet, Inception)
 Fine-tuning NLP models (BERT, RoBERTa)
 Feature extraction vs fine-tuning
 Applications of transfer learning (vision, NLP, speech)
 Training efficiency improvements

72. Computer Vision (OpenCV)

 OpenCV basics (loading, displaying images/videos)

 Image processing (grayscale, resize, blur, thresholding)
  Edge detection (Canny, Sobel)
 Contour detection and shape analysis
 Face detection (Haar cascades, DNN)
 Object detection basics
 Real-time video analysis with OpenCV

73. Augmented Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR)

 Basics of AR and VR
 AR with OpenCV (overlaying images/objects)
 Marker-based AR (ArUco markers)
 VR basics with Python
 Using Unity/Unreal with Python APIs
 Applications of AR/VR in Python (games, education, training)

74. Model Deployment & MLOps (Flask, FastAPI, Docker)

 Saving/loading ML models (pickle, joblib, TensorFlow SavedModel)

 Creating REST APIs for ML models (Flask, FastAPI)
 Model versioning
 Dockerizing ML models
 CI/CD for ML pipelines
 Monitoring deployed models (data drift, performance monitoring)
 Basics of Kubernetes for ML deployment

Unit 6 – Data Science & Big Data Topics

75. Machine Learning Basics (scikit-learn)

 Introduction to ML concepts (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement)

 scikit-learn basics (datasets, preprocessing, train/test split)
 Model training and evaluation (fit, predict, score)
 Common algorithms (linear regression, logistic regression, kNN, decision trees)
 Metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score)
 Cross-validation basics

76. Supervised Learning (Regression, Classification)

 Regression: linear, polynomial, ridge, lasso

 Classification: logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, SVM
 Bias-variance tradeoff
 Model evaluation (confusion matrix, ROC, AUC)
 Hyperparameter tuning (GridSearchCV, RandomizedSearchCV)
 Feature importance and selection
77. Unsupervised Learning (Clustering, Dimensionality Reduction)

 Clustering: K-Means, hierarchical clustering, DBSCAN

 Distance metrics (Euclidean, cosine)
 Dimensionality reduction: PCA, t-SNE, UMAP
 Evaluating clusters (silhouette score)
 Applications (customer segmentation, anomaly detection)

78. Time Series Analysis (ARIMA, Prophet, Statsmodels)

 Time series basics (trend, seasonality, noise)

 Stationarity and differencing
 Autocorrelation and PACF plots
 ARIMA models (AR, MA, ARIMA, SARIMA)
 Prophet basics (Facebook Prophet)
 Forecasting and prediction intervals
 Statsmodels for time series

79. Data Pipelines and ETL with Python

 Introduction to ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)

 Data extraction (CSV, Excel, databases, APIs)
 Data cleaning and transformation (pandas, numpy)
 Loading data into databases or data warehouses
 Workflow automation (Airflow, Luigi, Prefect basics)
 Scheduling ETL jobs (cron, Airflow DAGs)

80. Big Data Handling (Dask, PySpark)

 Challenges of big data (volume, velocity, variety)

 Dask basics (parallel arrays, dataframes, delayed computation)
 PySpark basics (RDD, DataFrame, Spark SQL)
 Distributed computing concepts
 Running transformations and aggregations on big datasets
 Comparing pandas vs PySpark vs Dask

81. Distributed Computing with Python (Ray)

 Introduction to distributed computing

 Ray basics (remote functions, tasks, actors)
 Parallelizing Python functions
 Scaling ML/AI workloads with Ray
 Ray Tune for hyperparameter optimization
  Ray Serve for distributed model serving

82. Cryptography & Cybersecurity Basics in Python

 Importance of cryptography in security

 Symmetric encryption (Fernet in cryptography library, AES basics)
 Asymmetric encryption (RSA basics)
 Hashing algorithms (SHA256, MD5)
 Digital signatures
 Key management basics
 Secure communication demos in Python

Unit 7 – Cutting-Edge & Specialized Topics

83. Introduction to Blockchain with Python

 Basics of blockchain technology

 Blocks, chains, and hashing
 Creating a simple blockchain in Python
 Proof of Work concept
 Mining demo with Python
 Transaction validation basics
 Limitations of toy blockchains

84. Quantum Cryptography with Python

 Basics of quantum cryptography

 Qubits and superposition (intro only)
 Python simulation of random key generation
 Quantum key distribution (BB84 protocol basics)
 Security implications
 Libraries: qiskit, projectq (intro level)

85. Introduction to Quantum Computing (Qiskit)

 Basics of quantum computing

 Installing & setting up Qiskit
 Qubits and gates (X, H, CNOT, etc.)
 Quantum circuits in Python
 Measurement and probabilities
 Running quantum circuits on simulators
 Running on real IBM Quantum hardware (cloud demo)
86. Quantum Machine Learning with Python

 Introduction to quantum ML
 Quantum data encoding
 Variational quantum circuits
 Hybrid quantum-classical models
 Qiskit Machine Learning module basics
 Simple classification/regression with quantum circuits
 Challenges & future directions

87. Spatial Data Analysis (GIS) with Python

 Introduction to GIS concepts

 Working with shapefiles & GeoJSON
 Libraries: geopandas, shapely, folium
 Mapping with Python (visualizing geospatial data)
 Spatial joins and overlays
 Coordinate reference systems (CRS)
 Real-world applications (urban planning, environment, logistics)

88. Data Governance & Compliance with Python

 Importance of data governance

 Data privacy (GDPR, HIPAA basics)
 Data access control
 Auditing & logging data usage
 Masking & anonymizing data in Python
 Compliance automation with Python scripts
 Best practices for secure data handling

89. Software Design Patterns in Python

 Introduction to design patterns

 Creational patterns (Singleton, Factory, Builder)
 Structural patterns (Adapter, Decorator, Facade, Proxy)
 Behavioral patterns (Observer, Strategy, Command)
 Python-specific idioms (duck typing, context managers)
 When & why to use design patterns
 Anti-patterns (what to avoid)

90. API Development & Documentation

 REST API basics

 Building APIs with Flask/FastAPI
 CRUD endpoints
  Authentication (API keys, JWT)
 API versioning
 API documentation (Swagger/OpenAPI)
 Best practices in API design

91. Data Serialization (Pickle, JSON, XML)

 Importance of serialization
 Using pickle (advantages & security risks)
 JSON module (dump, load, formatting)
 Working with XML (xml.etree.ElementTree)
 Comparison of serialization formats (JSON vs XML vs Pickle)
 When to use which format
 Interoperability across systems

92. Interfacing with Other Languages (C, C++)

 Why interface Python with C/C++

 ctypes module basics
 Using SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)
 Cython basics for performance
 Embedding Python in C
 Extending Python with C/C++ modules
 Real-world use cases (speedups, hardware interfacing)

93. Advanced Game Development Techniques

 Advanced Pygame concepts (levels, physics, AI for enemies)

 Using external game engines with Python (Godot, Panda3D)
 Procedural content generation
 Multiplayer game basics with sockets
 Optimizing performance in games
 Packaging and distributing Python games

94. Ethics & Best Practices in AI Development

 Importance of ethics in AI
 Bias in datasets & models
 Transparency in algorithms
 Fairness & accountability in AI systems
 Explainability requirements
 Guidelines for responsible AI development
 Case studies of ethical failures in AI
95. DevOps with Python (CI/CD)

 Introduction to DevOps culture

 Using Python in DevOps automation
 CI/CD basics (Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment)
 Jenkins, GitHub Actions with Python
 Writing Python scripts for deployment pipelines
 Infrastructure as code (Terraform + Python SDKs)
 Monitoring and logging in DevOps

96. Cloud Integration & Deployment with Python (AWS, GCP, Azure)

 Basics of cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

 AWS with boto3 (EC2, S3 basics)
 GCP with google-cloud-python SDK
 Azure SDK for Python basics
 Deploying Python apps on cloud platforms
 Serverless computing with Python (AWS Lambda, GCP Functions, Azure Functions)
 Cost optimization & monitoring

97. Edge Computing with Python (Raspberry Pi, MicroPython)

 Introduction to edge computing concepts

 Python on Raspberry Pi
 MicroPython basics
 Interfacing sensors and actuators
 Running lightweight AI models on edge devices
 IoT + Edge integration
 Real-world applications (smart homes, industrial IoT)