Mastering the Art of Programming in Python 3

Course Overview

This highly interactive and advanced course will give you insight into the most common Python tricks and tips. This course is for practicing Python programmers who are aiming for proficiency in Python 3. If you want to switch from Python 2 to Python 3, this is your go-to course. This... See More

How You'll Learn

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Introduction

What is This Course About?

2. Built-in Data Structures

List Comprehensions

Tuples

Challenge: Read the Line Segments

Solution Review: Read the Line Segments

Namedtuple: An Extension of Tuple

Stacks and Queues

Challenge: Prefix to Postfix Conversion

Solution Review: Prefix to Postfix Conversion

Sets

Counter: A High-Performance Container

Dictionaries

Challenge: Count with Dictionary

Solution Review: Count with Dictionary

Quiz: Built-in Data Structures

3. Functional Programming

First-Class Functions

Functions with Optional Arguments

Decorators

Closures

Challenge: Decode the Message

Solution Review: Decode the Message

Anonymous Functions

Challenge: Square the Factorials

Solution Review: Square the Factorials

Functional Behavior of an Object

Quiz: Functional Programming

4. Project I: Data Science with Data Structures

Reading a Dataset with Data Structures

Time to Code

Mini Project

Data science with Data Structures

5. Project I Review

Solution: Task I to Task IV

Solution: Task V to Task VIII

Quiz: Test Yourself

6. Object-Oriented Idioms

How Operators Treat the Variables?

Shallow Copy vs Deep Copy

Pass by Reference

Exception Classes

Class Variable vs Instance Variable

Class, Instance and Static Methods

Abstract Base Classes

Challenge: Devise a Shape System

Solution Review: Devise a Shape

Operator Overloading

Challenge: Overload the Operators for Vectors

Solution Review: Overload the Operators for Vectors

Quiz: Object-Oriented Idioms

7. Iterables and Generators

Iterables in Python

Iterators in Python

Challenge: Create a Fibonacci Iterator

Solution Review: Create a Fibonacci Iterator

Generators in Python

Challenge: Generate Fibonacci Series with Generator

Solution Review: Generate Fibonacci Series with Generator

Quiz 1: Regulating the Control Flow

Generator Expressions

The Potency of else Block

Building Pipelines

Context Manager Protocol

Quiz 2: Regulating the Control Flow

8. Coroutines

Introduction to Coroutines

Challenge: Coroutine to Compute Running Maximum

Solution Review: Coroutine to Compute Running Maximum

Priming a Coroutine

Handling the Exceptions

Quiz: Coroutines

9. Project II: Build Your Own Matrix Module

Matrix with Python

Mini Project

Build Your Own Matrix Library

10. Project II Review

Solution: Task I to Task IV

Solution: Task V to Task VIII

11. Meta-Programming

Introduction to Meta-Programming

Dynamic Classes

Custom Meta-Classes

Challenge: Time My Functions

Solution Review: Time My Functions

Quiz: Meta-Programming

12. The End

Conclusion