The Complete Python Developer Masterclass

Discover installing Python on Windows from python.org, selecting add to path, running the installer, and verifying a successful Python 3 setup.

This lecture shows how to verify Python 3 installation on Windows by checking environment variables, locating the Python and scripts paths, and launching Python to confirm version and shell access.

Discover how single board computers like the raspberry pi fit into embedded applications, offering a credit-card size, low-cost, non-upgradable design, and sparking the modern IoT movement.

Install Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 4 using Raspberry Pi Imager, configure Wi-Fi and hostname for headless access, then connect remotely via RDP and Windows Remote Desktop.

Learn to enable the VNC server on Raspberry Pi, install RealVNC Viewer, and connect remotely to the Pi's graphical desktop from Windows, adjusting resolution for optimal display.

Install idle3 on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian by using sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install idle3, verify with echo $?, and launch the idle3 prompt from the programming menu.

Explore python on raspberry pi using the terminal to locate python 2 and python 3. Write and run hello world in the default ide, and verify python paths with which.

Explore remote connection options for the Raspberry Pi using PuTTY, VCP, and mobile system for remote command line, remote file transfer, and X11 forwarding.

Turn a Raspberry Pi 4 into a portable touchscreen tablet with Sun Founder Raspberry components, assembling the display, back cover, microSD, and cooling fan.

Learn to write and run a basic hello world program in Python 3 on Windows, using the interpreter and command prompt to execute and view output.

Learn how to write and run a Python program on a Raspberry Pi, including using Python 3, setting execute permissions, adding a shebang, and running from the shell or IDE.

Learn the difference between python 3 interpreter (interactive mode) and scripting mode, including how to run small prototype code in memory or save and execute complete scripts for larger programs.

Launch IDLE on the Raspberry Pi, create and save Python files, run them in the interactive shell, and explore the editor, indentation, class browser, and font size settings.

Compare Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus, MacBook Pro, and a custom built computer, highlighting power, price, and use cases for small databases, personal websites, and data science.

Explore Python 3 basics by creating variables and using fundamental data types, including integers in binary, octal, and hex, floating-point numbers, complex numbers, booleans, and strings, with the print function.

Learn how to use the assignment operator in Python to assign values to variables, copy values between variables, and perform multiple assignments such as a, b = 30, 40.

Explore the Python 3 print function, printing strings and variables, combining text with values, and formatting output with the format method and curly-brace placeholders.

Explore how Python uses comments to document code and aid debugging. Use hash for single-line comments and multi-line blocks, which the interpreter ignores.

Learn how to use the input() function in Python 3 to collect user names and ages, format outputs with print and format, and convert strings to integers for interactive programs.

Explore how Python uses indentation to define code blocks and control flow, contrasting it with curly-bracket languages, and learn how proper indentation improves readability and block structure.

Explore the Python assignment statement and expressions, including arithmetic and boolean expressions, and learn how to print results while understanding how variables like a and b form meaningful statements.

Explore Python arithmetic operations, including binary operators like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, modulus, and exponentiation, plus unary minus, with practical code examples.

Discover how associativity and precedence govern Python 3 arithmetic, using variable examples and print statements to show how brackets alter evaluation order, unary minus, and augmented assignments.

Explore how boolean expressions in Python 3 yield true or false using comparison operators such as >, <, >=, <=, and !=. Apply them in conditional statements.

Explore the if statement in python 3, using boolean expressions to control code execution and understand how true conditions run blocks while false conditions skip them.

Explore Python 3 conditional programming with if else and boolean expressions. Learn how true conditions execute blocks and how else handles false cases.

Learn how to implement nested if statements in Python to classify an input number as positive, zero, or negative, with user prompts and simple output.

Learn to use the elif clause in Python to handle multiple conditions with if, elif, and else, classifying input numbers as positive, zero, or negative.

Master the membership operator in Python to test characters in strings and elements in lists, understanding true or false results and case sensitivity.

Learn to use and, or, and not in Python 3 through boolean expressions and sample outputs. See how binary and unary operators evaluate true or false with x and y.

Explore bitwise operators in Python by applying and, or, xor, not, and left and right shift operations with binary representations and decimal outputs.

Master Python 3 while loops by starting with i = 0, looping while i < 10, printing i, and incrementing i (by 1 or 2), plus cautions against infinite loops.

Master the break statement to prematurely terminate a while loop in Python. See a simple example that prints numbers 0 to 9 and stops when i reaches 6.

Explore how the continue statement affects control flow in a while loop, skipping the rest of an iteration when a condition is met, and printing values accordingly.

Master how to use a for loop to iterate through a list in Python, printing each element and understanding list iteration without knowing the list length.

Master using the for loop with Python's range function to generate numeric sequences and control lower bound, upper bound, and step. See how range defaults and explicit bounds affect iteration.

Explore using continue and break within for loops, employing range to control iterations, skip certain steps when conditions meet, and stop the loop at a specified value.

Identify prime numbers between 2 and 200 using a nested for loop in Python, checking divisibility by earlier numbers and printing primes, while explaining the prime versus composite distinction.

Learn to write a Python 3 program that calculates the factorial of a number, handling zero, using a loop to multiply integers from 1 to n.

Write a Python program to generate the Fibonacci series by starting with 0 and 1, using a loop to update the last two terms, and print the first n terms.

Define and reuse code with user defined functions in Python 3 using def, call them, and print greetings such as hello world or hello to a name, distinguishing library functions.

Define functions with parameters and call them with arguments to produce dynamic outputs. Explore handling multiple parameters, default arguments, and keyword arguments to pass values out of order.

Learn to define Python functions with def and return values, including single and multiple returns, with examples like squaring numbers and returning computed results.

Learn to define and call a Python function with an arbitrary number of arguments, and print each member by iterating over the provided values.