Building Real World Projects in Python

Name: Building Real World Projects in Python
Rating: 4.2 (19 reviews)

A great course enhancing your Python programming skills by solving real world problems! Learn by making great things!

Created byAleksandr Romanov

Last updated 2/2015

English

What you'll learn

Have a real world projects in your portfolio
Enhance programming skills
Understand how Python can be applied to solve problems
Learn by creating impressing programms
Advance computational thinking

Course content

6 sections • 50 lectures • 1h 7m total length

Welcome to the course!2:22
Let't take a look what kind of challenges are waiting for us!
Introducing the problem2:40
Coefficients
Tricky Question0:33
Tricky Question Quiz
Descriminant1:29
Identify the Amount of Roots
Applying descriminant3:01
Explore how to compute the discriminant for quadratic equations using coefficients a, b, and c, and determine whether solutions are two, one, or no roots.
Finding the solutions1:53
Calculate the Roots
Calculate the Roots (Example)2:13

The functionality of our App1:05
Python shell0:55
Communicating with the user0:35
Learn how to design a user-facing start message that greets the user and accepts input values, outputting initial results and guiding you to implement coefficient-based functionality.
How to Welcome the User
Communicating with the user (Explanation)0:34
Asking for Coefficients
Inputs and Outputs1:29
Type casting
Explaining Type Casting0:51
What are the test cases?
Test cases1:17
Algorithm1:43

Slicing the segment1:09
Discover locating a point on a zero-based segment of length X by only slicing the segment into two equal parts, yielding X/2, X/4, and so on.
Bisectional algorithm2:04
Describing the project1:09
Interactivity1:26
Core variables1:41
Define the variables
The game inside the loop2:33
Build a bisectional search based number guessing game in Python, inside a loop starting with 0–100 and midpoint 50, updating bounds through user feedback—too high or too low.
Validating the input0:59
Validate the input
Bisectional Search in use2:56
Bisectional Search Challenge
Bisectional Search in use (continue)1:14
Explore how binary search narrows the interval by updating the upper bound and middle guess, and identify the bug causing an infinite loop when the lower bound doesn't change.
Where is the bug?
Fixing the bug1:24
Play the game1:09
Play a Python guessing game by running the module and watching the computer guess a number from 0 to 100 using the bisection method in the Python shell.

The magic of cryptography0:55
ASCII self-study1:00
ASCII
Explaining ord() and chr()1:09
2 in 11:35
Demonstrate using two separate programs to encrypt and decrypt messages for secure internet communication, showing how a sender encrypts, the network transmits, and the receiver decrypts to read.
Caesar cipher1:39
Validation1:20
Challenging task1:00
This is the part of the Final Project task. Use your knowledge to solve the next quiz!
Challenge
Validating the key1:43
How to make the string always alphabetical1:41
Cipher formula0:35
Read about the core encryption formula
Cipher formula challenge
Checking cipher formula1:19
Finishing the application3:05
Fix the bug
Fixing the bug0:52
Decryption app0:43
Decryption is very simple!
Allow space characters (Quick fix)0:39
Add a conditional to treat spaces as valid characters, ensuring text stays readable, and ignore changes when the symbol is a space so the message remains unchanged.
Let's hack the encrypted message!0:40
Test the core cryptography application with an encrypted message and a known key, using the Python shell to determine what the message is.

Requirements

Variables, Functions, If statements
Understand how to run Python code on your computer
Already installed Python on your computer

Description

What is this course about?

Feel the real power of Python and programming! The course offers you a unique approach of learning how to code by solving real world problems. Throughout the course we will be understanding how to identify and formulate the problems, what is the key to a great app, we will learn how to efficiently adopt the problem for the computer and the most important that you will be writing a lot of code! The course is structured in a way that lectures are like labs where we study the material, do the quizzes, write programs and test them! The most important that you will be involved into work a lot in order to get the best experience!

Technical background

You will understand how Python can be used to solve problems from different fields, including mathematics, cryptography, guess-n-check algorithms and more! You don't need to be familiar with concepts we will be solving, however the basic understanding of programming is needed, only the basics, like variables, if statements, loops and functions.

Who this course is for:

Students having a little programming experience (variables, if statements, functions)
Basic understanding of Python syntax

Building Real World Projects in Python

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Course content

Introducing the math app7 lectures • 14min

Planning the solution and algorithms8 lectures • 8min

Implementing the app in Python6 lectures • 9min

Make your computer guess11 lectures • 18min

Introducing Cryptography Application16 lectures • 20min

What is next?2 lectures • 2min

Requirements

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