• What is a program?
• How to run Python and its modes of running?
• Get the hang of debugging skill in Python.
• Arithmetic operators in Python
• Values and types in Python
• How to define variables and use them in your code?
• What is meant by a variable?
• What is meant by an expression?
• Order of operations.
• String Operations in Python.
• How to write comments in Python ?
• What is meant by a function?
• Function types and uses in Python.
• What is meant by parameters and arguments?
• Fruitful and void functions in Python.
• Boolean expressions in Python.
• What is meant by logical operators and how can you use them in Python?
• Conditional execution in Python.
• Chained and Nested conditionals in Python.
• Recursion in Python.
• Return values, Boolean functions and checking types in Python.
• Iteration statements in Python (While loop, for loop, break).
• How to deal with strings in Python (ex. Get the length of a string, traverse a string, string methods, in operator, compare two strings, etc.)?

• Development of production data analysis techniques over time.
• Production data analysis applications.
• Arps & Fetkovic old school Decline curve analysis techniques.
• Blasingame, Agarwal-Gardner & NPI modern production data analysis techniques.
• Flowing Material Balance Method.
• Production Data analysis of hydraulically fractured & horizontal wells.
• Perform production data analysis using software.