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Python for Everyday Life

Name: Python for Everyday Life
Rating: 3.6 (15 reviews)

Make your day and master Python: a powerful and versatile language and ecosystem that can help you save time.

Created byPackt Publishing

Last updated 5/2018

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What you'll learn

Automate the execution of lots of common everyday life tasks using Python
Write Python code proficiently in a structured fashion
Identify the boundaries of a coding problem and spot the best libraries to solve it
Design and Implement a wide range of applications from simple stand-alone one-liner scripts to complex web applications depending on external services
Manipulate efficiently and visualize data as a way to make informed decisions

Course content

16 sections • 84 lectures • 14h 21m total length

The Course Overview4:35
This video provides an overview of the entire course.
The Benefits of Using Proper Programmer Tools2:59
Determine the power of programming tools and benefit from them in terms of code quality and productivity.
Installing and Configuring PyCharm4:34
Discover PyCharm, a powerful and easy-to-use IDE which provides smart Python coding support and seamless integration with Git.
Keep Your Work Warm (and Safe) Using Git8:31
Learn about Version Control Systems which special focus on Git, a modern distributed VCS.
Setup of a Sample Python Project6:10
Grasp how to use PyCharm and Git to setup and run a sample Python code project.

Libraries: Never Reinvent the Wheel4:19
Avoid losing time on low-level recurrent programming issues; focus on coding to solve high-level value-added tasks.
The Python Standard Library5:42
Python standard library offers lots of modules that provide high-level utilities to accomplish common tasks (interacting with operating systems, handling dates and time, logging and so on).
Searching for the Right Library to Do the Job3:46
Determine the rationales that should guide the search for the best libraries solving a specific task.
Using Pip to Install Libraries5:18
Learn how to use the pip utility to install new Python packages alongside the local standard library.
Using Virtualenv to Isolate Environments5:52
Master how to use virtualenv to isolate the libraries that your code depends on, shielding it from unintentional system-wide library upgrades.

Logging7:03
Discover Logging, which is a way to record application events that helps you with problem determination.
Regular Expressions6:40
What are regular expressions, which are a very powerful way to search for specific patterns in a string?
Function Decorators and Context Managers6:47
Determine how Decorators allow dynamic extension of functions behavior. Context Managers are a way to easily allocate/release transactional resources in a managed fashion.
Generator Expressions and Generators5:43
In this video, we are going to learn about Generators and how they behave like iterators and help to lazily evaluate logic for producing a set of values that you can iterate on. Generator expressions are a short syntax to create generators on the fly.
Magic Methods5:58
Discover how Magic methods are a way to enrich your classes with the capability to emulate built-in Python types and structures, resulting in more Pythonic code.
Metaprogramming6:39
Determine how Metaprogramming allows manipulation of code. We will focus on manipulating class instantiation via metaclasses usage.
Functional Programming7:15
Understand how Functional programming allows you to write code as stateless evaluations of functions upon data, with the benefits of avoiding size effects and leaving input data immutable.
Pythonic Code Idioms5:35
Study how Python native idioms helps you to write less code that runs faster and is more secure

Walking and Filtering Folder Contents8:42
Determine how Python scripting is very efficient when it comes to walk folders and manipulate their contents.
Renaming Files and Folders Based on Regular Expressions12:24
Discover how regular expression helps you to organize files and folders on your computer so that they obey a naming pattern.
Detecting File Modifications Using Diffs and Hashes11:14
Learn how hashes are a good solution to quickly understand if modifications have been made to a file set. If you need to drill down to what changes have been made, diffs are the way to go.
Compressing and Decompressing Files8:53
Study how File compression can be helpful, especially when you need to send big amounts of data through the wire.
Encrypting Files with PyCryptodome13:02
Learn how to encrypt data in your applications since almost all modern network applications rely on strong cryptographic algorithms in order to protect data exchanged among parties.

Reading and Writing Files6:45
In this video, you will learn how to read and write files using python.
CSV6:30
Explore CSV file format and libraries. Also, learn how to read and write CSV file.
XML7:37
Take a look at CSV file format and libraries. Also, learn how to read and write CSV file.
JSON and YAML7:36
Explore JSON and YAML file format and libraries. After that, learn how to read and write JSON and YAML files.
Word DOCX10:00
Learn about Word file format and libraries. Also, learn how to read and write them.
Excel XLSX9:33
Study about Excel XLS which is the binary file format used by the Microsoft Excel application to store data.
PDF8:14
Learn how to read and write PDF file in python.

Reading and Showing Images with Pillow6:25
Images are worth a thousand words; therefore we use them a lot in our everyday life. Being able to read images from Python code opens up a whole new world of possibilities to manipulate them.
Cropping and Resizing Images6:45
Sometimes the dimensions of images are not okay for printing it, or you might just want to remove some unwelcomed features in a photo.
Basic Image Filtering6:26
Pillow allows you to apply algorithmic filters to images, which helps identify, and exalt features; to either change image colors or apply special effects. Imagination is the limit!
Image Watermarking8:14
When you publish an image anywhere on the Internet you might want to add it a proof of ownership so to avoid potential intellectual property theft.
Taking a Screenshot3:32
Sometimes you need to save the whole contents of your computer screen to an image, so that you can share that with others or preserve it for later usage.
Parsing QR Codes6:02
QR codes are an easy way to embed information into an image that can be photographed and then automatically parsed in order to retrieve such information.
Recognizing Faces in Pictures9:20
Being able to identify human faces in static images or videos can be extremely useful for a variety of purposes.

Downloading Web Content to Your Local Host Using Requests11:35
In order to interact with websites you need an understanding of the protocols and technologies that make up the World Wide Web and proper tooling to leverage its capabilities
Scraping Websites Content with Beautifulsoup13:27
What if you just need to grab that little piece of information on a specific web page? Web scraping allows you to do that
Scripting Your Browser with Selenium10:26
Selenium allows to emulate human interactions with graphical interfaces, including web browsers: you can use them to automatically interact with websites.

Working with APIs6:13
APIs provide programmatic access to datasets and operations from an online service provider. They are based on the HTTP protocol and allow any HTTP-compliant device to interact with them.
Learning How to Interact with httpbin Test Service15:51
Requests can be used to interact with APIs, but you need to know how HTTP works in order to do that.
Fetching Cryptocurrencies Market Prices from the Coinmarketcap API10:02
In order to use an API you need to understand how it works by reading its documentation and usage examples, and usually you need to ask for an authentication token.
Retrieving Weather Forecasts from the OpenWeatherMap API with PyOWM Client14:45
OpenWeatherMap is a weather observation and forecast service that provides a free-tiered web API. We will learn how easy it is to retrieve weather data from it using the PyOWM library.

Reading and Sending Emails with Gmail15:29
Problem: Programmatically read your Gmail inbox and send an email to somebody.
Tweeting a Positive Message to the World with Twithon8:25
Problem: Programmatically publish a tweet on Twitter.
Tracking all of Your Personal Notes Using the Evernote API14:02
Problem: Programmatically save some text and a picture to .Evernote then view them on the browser.
Watching for Topics on the Python Reddit RSS Feed7:52
Problem: programmatically filter Reddit Python RSS feed in order to spot posts containing specific text.
Using Firebase Cloud Messaging to Send a Push Notification to Your Android Apps12:52
Problem: programmatically send a push notification to a mobile app running on your Android smartphone.
Sending a Text SMS via Twilio with Twilio Client5:25
Problem: programmatically send an SMS to a mobile phone number using Twilio.
Backing Up on Dropbox Your Local Data Folders with Dropbox Client10:25
Problem: save your files on Dropbox, then view them on your browser.

Introduction to Web Applications5:39
Web applications are the easiest and most spread way to offer services because they rely on the World Wide Web.
Web Applications Fundamentals9:32
Learn how a web app compares to traditional applications and what their typical structure is.
Using MVC Frameworks7:53
Web frameworks help you being productive at web development and Model-View-Control favors a clear separation of concerns in your web app.
Meet Flask and Django12:30
Flask and Django are the two prominent web frameworks in the Python ecosystem.

Requirements

Previous Knowledge of Python is assumed.

Description

Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python’s elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.

This video course is about leveraging the Python programming language and its thriving ecosystem to save yourself time and money when doing common routine tasks. Nobody wants to do boring and time-consuming tasks: days have 24 hours and you should squeeze out the most of this time for yourself - automating the boring tasks gives you back time to focus on what you really like to do. Moreover, this is also the chance for you to learn a great general-purpose language such as Python, with which you can build very cool applications both at work and in your spare time.

The course is structured as an incremental learning path: you will start with a deep-dive into Python software development basics, then move on to write scripts to automate file system operations and file contents processing on your local host, then you will learn how to interact with web-based services such as websites and APIs in order to robotize the cool things that we do everyday - such as tweeting, posting to social networks, reading RSS feeds, etc. - moreover you will practice how to set up a web-based services yourself in the form of web applications and in the end you will learn how to analyze and visualize datasets in order to extract knowledge.

By the end of this course you will have learned how to proficiently write structured Python code in a wide range of applications – from one-liner scripts to complex web applications – aiming at the automation of lots of common everyday life tasks.

About the Author

Claudio Sparpaglione holds an MD in Computer Engineering from Università degli studi di Pavia, Italy, achieved in 2007. He later worked as software engineer and architect in various industries (Geospatial Application Systems development and integration, Web and Mobile Advertising, Telecommunications, Fashion Brand Protection).Claudio worked in London in 2014 for a UK start-up as a software engineer and in 2015 became CTO of an Italian start-up. He currently works for the largest Italian bank as application engineer and deals with innovation topics.

Claudio is a Pythonista with exposure to other languages (JavaScript, Java, and PHP). He’s passionate about the design and implementation of highly-scalable web systems and APIs, about cloud, mobile and scientific computing, and he’s fascinated by cryptocurrencies.

Claudio is a Linux advocate and an active contributor to the open source software community: he’s the maintainer of the PyOWM Python project and contributes to projects such as Requests and Reactive Manifesto.

Who this course is for:

This course is for Python developers and users from all spheres of life who would want to get well versed with Python and use it to put their life on autopilot!

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Programmers Tooling5 lectures • 27min

Finding the Right Tool for the Job5 lectures • 25min

Advanced Python Topics8 lectures • 52min

Manipulate Files and Folders5 lectures • 54min

Handle Common File Formats7 lectures • 56min

Processing Images7 lectures • 47min

Interacting with Websites3 lectures • 35min

The Power of APIs4 lectures • 47min

Automate Common Internet Tasks7 lectures • 1hr 15min

Anatomy of a Web Application4 lectures • 36min

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