Python Theory for Network Engineers

- [Instructor] Now, in the following videos I'm gonna be discussing a lot of Python theoretical topics. I've broken these topics into very short videos explaining specific topics that may be of interest to you. So use the menu and the outline to see if there are any specific topics of interest to you. You can use this as a reference for later or you can just work through the videos from beginning to end, but I've purposely broken it up into short videos discussing individual topics so that you can jump around or reference individual topics later.

A lot of these videos are very short but try and discuss either one or two topics. Working with theoretical Python topics can be quite boring, but you've got to see these as building blocks to writing better scripts. When you learned TCP/IP for the first time, or subnetting, it wasn't very exciting necessarily, and was quite complex and perhaps frustrating at times, but that knowledge is invaluable when working with networking. As an example, if you didn't know about the OSI model, it would be difficult to troubleshoot networks.

It's not exciting to learn about OSI or UDP or TCP or IP subnetting and so forth, but it's necessary for you as a network person, to have that foundational knowledge to build upon, and see this as something very similar. We're gonna look at some basic building blocks that you can use to build a solid foundation for future scripts and future application development. Learn the tools and mechanisms that help you better implement code.

I've created lots of shorter videos here and tried to be very descriptive in the names of those videos so that if you want to skip ahead or you're only interested in certain topics, you can jump directly to those. But otherwise, just work through the videos one by one to lay a solid foundation.