Interested in learning Python? Here's the syllabus from our DFIR Python Study Group course. Follow along by getting the book, doing the homework, and watching the YouTube videos.
Note: Assignments listed below indicate what to complete before class; make sure that you are signed in to Discord in order to access the exercises via the links
Textbook: Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide, 2nd edition
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Class 0 on 05/21/2020
- Ch. 1 pp. 1-19 until “What We Already Know”
Class 1 on 05/26/2020
- Ch. 1 pp. 20-46 until “Chapter 1’s Code”
Class 2 on 05/28/2020
- Ch. 2 pp. 47-55 until “Creating Lists Literally”
Class 3 on 06/02/2020
- Ch. 2 pp. 56-94 until “Chapter 2’s Code, 2 of 2” / blank page
Class 4 on 06/04/2020
- build.prop
- Open and read file using a for loop
- Use if and elif to select interesting items in the file
- Select the values to the right of = using start, stop, step, or split()
- Write the extracted data to a text file
Class 5 on 06/09/2020
- Ch. 3 pp. 95-121 until “Test Drive”
- Note: p. 98 is outdated and new info can be found here
Class 6 on 06/11/2020
- Ch. 3 pp. 122-144 until “Chapter 3’s Code, 2 of 2”
- discord.json
- Pull the chats (content key) and user identifiers
Class 7 on 06/16/2020
- Ch. 4 pp. 145-169 until “Test Drive”
Class 9 on 06/23/2020
- homework_files.zip: Create a script that does the following
- Calls a function that selects timestamp, partner_jid, and body from the messagesTable in the Kik database; prints them to screen; and calls a function to generate a text file report
- Calls a function that extracts the timestamp, author, and content from the Discord JSON file; prints them to screen; and calls a function to generate a text file report
Class 10 on 06/25/2020
- No homework / study hall
Class 11 on 06/30/2020
- No homework / study hall
Class 12 on 07/02/2020
- Research information online about argparse
- Research information online about dunders for name and main
- Make a script that takes two arguments and prints them to screen
- See Kik_Discord_Parser.py for the argparse and main() implementations
