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Advanced Python Skills: become a better Python developer!
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Advanced Python Skills: become a better Python developer!

In this course, you will learn a lot of built-in functionalities that are ignored and exploit all their advantages.
Last updated 10/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Useful built-in functionalities that are sometimes ignored in Python
  • Understand how some things work internally in Python
  • Best practices
  • Unit testing
  • Manage multiple versions of Python and virtual environments best practices

Coding Exercises

This course includes our updated coding exercises so you can practice your skills as you learn.

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Course content

19 sections54 lectures5h 25m total length
  • Introduction1:33
  • Repo for this course0:08

Requirements

  • Basic Python knowledge

Description

Welcome to Learn Python by doing!

Tired of the same Python course teaching you data types and printing the same message in a for loop? It's time to learn exciting things!

In this course, you will learn a lot of built in functionalities for you to become a better Python developer. You will also learn how to implement best practices and some unit testing. Some of the things that you will learn in this course are:

  • The zip function, the map function, the reduce function (with lots of exercises, obviously!)

  • Virtual environments, dependency management, deterministic builds, dependency resolution and more!

  • How to implement your own iterators and generators

  • How to sort things like a pro

  • Learn about closures (which is a concept that is not specific to Python)

  • Learn about decorators and some useful ones that come with Python

  • Sets and why are they cool (with fun exercises)

  • TDD and unit testing with Pytest

And more! Also, you will be asked to do some interesting exercises along the way, so you reinforce what you learn in this course.

Have fun and enjoy!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner Python developers
  • Intermediate Pythonistas
  • People with expertise in other programming languages that want to learn Python right away