Kirk Byers Python for Network Engineers Videos

Over the last three months I’ve been transitioning back over to network engineering. When I first started working in IT, my role was as a network technician, but slowly I took on more and more systems administration and engineering, and the work I was doing was mostly with PowerShell.

As a result, my Python skills have atrophied over the years since I was so focused on PowerShell, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned while being put in charge of managing thousands of switches, it’s that I need some scripting in place to handle mass changes.

 

The perfect class to get myself back in the Python game was from reddit, offered by Kirk Byers called “Python for Network Engineers“. It’s a introductory course on some Python basics, which for offered enough to get me going again.

I’m putting this list of the videos online for myself since I hate referencing my emails all the time, but if someone else finds it useful, awesome.

Lesson 1: Why Python, the Shell, and Strings
Lesson 2: Numbers, Files, Lists, and Linters
Lesson 3: Conditionals and Loops
Lesson 4: Dictionaries, Exceptions, and Regular Expressions
Lesson 5: Functions and the Python Debugger
Lesson 6: Netmiko
Lesson 7: Jinja2, YAML and JSON
Lesson 8: Libraries, PIP, and Virtual Environments

Lesson 1: Why Python, the Shell, and Strings

1. Introduction 
   Video https://vimeo.com/243034300
   Length is 7 minutes
2. Why Learn Programing?
   Video https://vimeo.com/243905715
   Length is 1 minute
3. Why Python?
   Video https://vimeo.com/243909371
   Length is 3 minutes
4. Python2 versus Python3
   Video https://vimeo.com/243912631
   Length is 2 minutes
5. Characteristics of Python
   Video https://vimeo.com/243918300
   Length is 5 minutes
6. The Python Interpreter Shell
   Video https://vimeo.com/242411259
   Length is 9 minutes
7. IPython
   Video https://vimeo.com/242460561
   Length is 4 minutes
8. Printing to stdout and Reading from stdin
   Video https://vimeo.com/243028886
   Length is 6 minutes
9. Dir, Help, and Variables​
   Video https://vimeo.com/243480156
   Length is 10 minutes
10. Python Strings (Part 1)
    Video https://vimeo.com/243481392
    Length is 6 minutes
11. Python Strings (Part 2)
    Video https://vimeo.com/243482081
    Length is 8 minutes
12. Python Strings (Part 3)
    Video https://vimeo.com/243482871
    Length is 10 minutes
13. Python String Formatting (Part 1)
    Video https://vimeo.com/243936489
    Length is 12 minutes
14. Python String Formatting (Part 2)
    Video https://vimeo.com/243956669
    Length is 4 minutes

Lesson 2: Numbers, Files, Lists, and Linters

1. Numbers
   Video https://vimeo.com/244128549
   Length is 9 minutes
2. Files
   Video https://vimeo.com/244127459
   Length is 10 minutes
3. Lists
   Video https://vimeo.com/244257596
   Length is 6 minutes
4. List Slices
   Video https://vimeo.com/244259492
   Length is 4 minutes
5. Lists are Mutable
   Video https://vimeo.com/244287000
   Length is 5 minutes
6. Tuples
   Video https://vimeo.com/244153105
   Length is 3 minutes
7. Using .join()
   ​Video https://vimeo.com/245464488
   Length is 3 minutes
8. sys.argv
   Video https://vimeo.com/245464766
   Length is 2 minutes
9. Linters
   Video https://vimeo.com/245102246
   Length is 6 minutes

Lesson 3: Conditionals and Loops

1. Conditionals
   Video https://vimeo.com/245104620
   Length is 8 minutes
2. Boolean Logic (Booleans, Ternary Operator, None)
   Video https://vimeo.com/245112558
   Length is 8 minutes
3. Python For Loops
   Video https://vimeo.com/245466297
   Length is 5 minutes
4. For Loops (Enumerate)​
   Video https://vimeo.com/245477015
   Length is 6 minutes
5. For Loops (Break and Continue)
   Video https://vimeo.com/245478016
   Length is 9 minutes
6. While Loops
   Video https://vimeo.com/245545155
   Length is 5 minutes
7. Loops Miscellaneous
   Video https://vimeo.com/245552604
   Length is 6 minutes

Lesson 4: Dictionaries, Exceptions, and Regular Expressions

1. Dictionaries
   Video https://vimeo.com/246157566
   Length is 6 minutes
2. Dictionaries Methods
   Video https://vimeo.com/246163031
   Length is 7 minutes
3. Sets
   Video https://vimeo.com/246167477
   Length is 9 minutes
4. Exceptions
   Video https://vimeo.com/246174686
   Length is 15 minutes
5. Regular Expressions (Part1)
   Video https://vimeo.com/246184715
   Length is 15 minutes
6. Regular Expressions (Part2)
   Video https://vimeo.com/246532117
   Length is 7 minutes
7. Regular Expressions (Part3)
   Video https://vimeo.com/246534450
   Length is 8 minutes
8. Regular Expressions, Other Methods
   Video https://vimeo.com/246535038
   Length is 4 minutes

Lesson 5: Functions and the Python Debugger

1. Functions (Part1)
   Video link https://vimeo.com/247570174
   Length is 8 minute
2. Functions (Part2)
   Video link https://vimeo.com/247581011
   Length is 11 minutes
3. Misc Topics (Part1)
   Video link https://vimeo.com/247582360
   Length is 10 minutes
4. Misc Topics (Part2)
   Video link https://vimeo.com/247655574
   Length is 8 minutes
5. Python Debugger (pdb)
   Video link https://vimeo.com/247724017
   Length is 10 minutes

Lesson 6: Netmiko

1. Netmiko Introduction and Basics 
   Video link https://vimeo.com/254569911
   Length is 8 minutes
2. Netmiko Show Commands
   Video link https://vimeo.com/254578980
   Length is 13 minutes
3. Netmiko and Prompting
   Video link https://vimeo.com/254587832
   Length is 12 minutes
4. Netmiko and TextFSM
   Video link https://vimeo.com/254611876
   Length is 10 minutes
5. Netmiko Config Changes
   Video link https://vimeo.com/254614073
   Length is 8 minutes
6. Netmiko Troubleshooting
   Video link https://vimeo.com/254786724
   Length is 9 minutes

Lesson 7: Jinja2, YAML and JSON

1. Jinja2 Basics
   Video link https://vimeo.com/257997257
   Length is 7 minutes
2. Jinja2 For-Loops and Conditionals
   Video link https://vimeo.com/257999160
   Length is 9 minute
3. Jinja2 and CSV
   Video link https://vimeo.com/258142987
   Length is 5 minutes
4. Jinja2 Dictionaries and Nested Loops
   Video link https://vimeo.com/258145504
   Length is 11 minutes
5. YAML Basics
   Video link https://vimeo.com/258161182
   Length is 9 minutes
6. YAML Part2
   Video link https://vimeo.com/258169427
   Length is 10 minutes
7. Using Python to Write YAML
   Video link https://vimeo.com/258171559
   Length is 3 minutes
8. JSON
   Video link https://vimeo.com/258178243
   Length is 5 minutes
9. Managing Data Structures
   Video link https://vimeo.com/258181273
   Length is 5 minutes

Lesson 8: Libraries, PIP, and Virtual Environments

1. Importing Libraries
   Video link https://vimeo.com/259422351
   Length is 5 minutes
2. sys.path and PYTHONPATH
   Video link https://vimeo.com/259423316
   Length is 7 minutes
3. pip
   Video link https://vimeo.com/259424573
   Length is 7 minutes
4. Virtual Environments
   Video link https://vimeo.com/259426537
   Length is 6 minutes
5. Creating a Simple Python Module
   Video link https://vimeo.com/259427586
   Length is 4 minutes