Advanced Python: Classes and Functions

Course details

Python has become the language of choice of many developers for building all kinds of applications across a wide range of industries, but to fully take advantage of its power and flexibility, you need to master all its advanced functionality. Python is a flexible, customizable language that provides features that other languages support only through third-party libraries or require that you build yourself. In this course, Joe Marini takes you through some of the more advanced features of the Python language. Joe shows you how to write code that is easier to read and maintain, build classes that work just like the ones that are native to the language, and work with some of the newest features of the language itself, like structural pattern matching. If you're ready to take your Python skills to the next level, join Joe in this course.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction
02 - Getting set up
03 - Tour of CoderPad

1. Language Features

04 - Python coding style
05 - Understanding strings vs. bytes
06 - The assignment expression
07 - Boolean types and values
08 - Template strings

2. Advanced Functions

09 - Documentation strings
10 - Variable argument lists
11 - Lambda functions
12 - Keyword-only arguments
13 - Solution - Advanced Functions

3. Python Comprehensions

14 - Introduction to comprehensions
15 - List comprehensions
16 - Dictionary comprehensions
17 - Set comprehensions
18 - Solution - Comprehensions

4. Classes and Objects

19 - Python classes overview
20 - Defining enumerations
21 - Special methods - string values
22 - Special methods - computed attributes
23 - Special methods - operations
24 - Special methods - comparisons
25 - Solution - Special Methods

5. Structural Pattern Matching

26 - Overview of pattern matching
27 - Simple patterns
28 - Capture patterns
29 - Class patterns
30 - Sequence patterns
31 - Pattern guards
32 - Solution - Patterns

Conclusion

33 - Next steps

Advanced Python: Classes and Functions

Authors

Joe Marini