• Unit 1: Introduction
• Unit 2: Expressions
• Unit 3: Data Types
• Unit 4: Conditional Logic
• Unit 5: Loops
• Unit 6: Functions
• Unit 7: Strings
• Unit 8: Defining Classes (part 1)
• Unit 9: Defining Classes (part 2)
• Unit 10: Web & Graphical User Interfaces
• Unit 11: Nested Structures
• Unit 12: Modules, Files, JSON
• Unit 13: Python Tips and LLMs
• Unit 13: Recursion
• Unit 14: Bonus Topics
• Unit 15: Inheritance and Polymorphism

Unit 13: Python Tips and LLMs

Students who complete this unit will demonstrate that they can:

• Use list, dict, and set comprehensions as a compact alternative to accumulator loops
• Use standard-library features (collections.Counter, re, enumerate, pathlib) to avoid reinventing common utilities
• Call a large language model from Python using the OpenAI client library, including conversation memory and system prompts
• Use tool calling to let an LLM run Python functions

Contents

• Lab 13: LLM Chatbot and Document Tagging
• Slides for Unit 13