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Python 201 - Interactively Learn Advanced Concepts in Python 3

Course Overview

This course will help you take the next level in your programming journey. It will demonstrate the ways you can use Python in your day-to-day work. We will cover intermediate and some advanced-level material in this course. Python 201 is split into four parts; Part one covers intermed...

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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

1. Introduction

About This Course

2. An Intro to Argument Parsing Using argparse

How To Process Command Line Arguments?

Adding Arguments

Options That Conflict

3. The Collections Module

Collections Module in Python

Quiz Yourself on Collections Module

4. Context Managers

Context Manager and Contextlib in Python

Contextlib and Its Classes

ExitStack and Reentrant Context Managers

5. The Functools Module

Introduction to functools

functool.partial

Function Overloading with functools.singledispatch

functools.wraps

Quiz Yourself on Functools Module

6. All About Imports

Introduction To Imports

Using "from module import something"

Relative Imports

Optional and Local Imports

Import Pitfalls

Quiz Yourself on Python Imports

7. The importlib Module

importlib Package

Dynamic Imports

Module Import Checking

Import From Source File

Import from github.com

8. Iterators and Generators

Introduction to Iterators

Creating Our Own Iterators

Quiz Yourself on Iterators and Generators

9. The Itertools Module

Iterators That Terminate

compress(), dropwhile() and filterfalse()

groupby(), islice() and starmap()

takewhile(), tee() and zip_longest()

The Combinatoric Generators

Quiz Yourself on the Iterators Module

10. Regular Expressions

Introduction to Regular expressions

The Matching Characters

Pattern Matching Using Search and Escape Codes

Compilation Flags

Finding Multiple Instances

Backslashes Are Complicated

Quiz Yourself on Regular Expressions

11. The Typing Module

Introduction to Typing Module

Type Hints and Overloaded Functions

12. Python Built-ins

Introduction to Built-ins

enumerate and eval

Quiz Yourself on Python Built-ins

13. Unicode

Introduction to Unicode

Encoding / Decoding

14. Benchmarking

Introduction to Benchmarking

Use a decorator

memory_profiler

Quiz Yourself on Benchmarking

15. Encryption and Cryptography

Introduction to Encryption and Cryptography

The Cryptography Package

16. Databases

Introduction to Databases in Python

pyodbc and pypyodbc

Object Relational Mappers

NoSQL and MongoDB

Quiz Yourself on Databases

17. The Super Built-in

Introduction to Super Built-in

Python 2 vs. Python 3

Method Resolution Order (MRO)

Quiz Yourself on Super Built-in

18. Descriptors

Descriptors in Python and its Protocol

Descriptor Examples

19. Scope

Scope in Python

Quiz Yourself on Scope in Python

20. Web Scraping

Introduction to Web Scraping

Preparing to Scrape

Quiz Yourself on Web Scraping

21. Web APIs

Introduction to APIs

Other API Libraries

22. Working with FTP

Introduction to FTP and ftplib

Downloading and Uploading a File via FTP

23. The urllib Module

urllib module in Python

urllib.robotparser

Quiz Yourself on urllib Module

24. The doctest Module

Introduction to doctest Module

Working of doctest Module

Check Your Test With a Text File

Option Flags and Directives

Quiz Yourself on doctest Module

25. The unittest Module

unittest Module in Python

A Simple Example of unittest Module

Command-Line Interface

Creating a More Complex Test

Creating Test Suites

How to Skip Tests

Integrating with doctest

Quiz Yourself on unittest Module

26. The mock Module

mock module in Python

Simple Examples of mock Module

Side Effects of mock Module

Autospeccing and Patch

Quiz Yourself on mock Module

27. An Intro to coverage.py

Additional Information

28. The asyncio Module

Introduction to asyncio Module

async and await

A Bad Coroutine Example

A Better Coroutine Example

Scheduling Calls

Quiz Yourself on asyncio Module

29. The Threading Module

Introduction to Threading Module

Locks and Synchronization

Other Thread Components

Thread Communication

Quiz Yourself on Threading Module

30. The Multiprocessing Module

Multiprocessing in Python

Locks and Logging

Process Communication

Quiz Yourself on Multiprocessing Module

31. The concurrent.futures Module

concurrent.futures module

Creating a Pool

32. Wrapping Up

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