Certified Python Developer

TABLE OF CONTENT

• Welcome to this Course!
• Overview of the Course Curriculum
• Our Python Coding Environment
• Writing the First Code! Variables and Printing
• Numbers in Python
• Calculating the Remainder of a Division
• Python Strings
• Python String Formatting
• Getting a User Input in Python
• Booleans and Comparisons in Python
• AND and OR in Python
• Lists in Python
• Tuples in Python
• Sets in Python
• Advanced Set Operations
• Python Dictionaries
• Length and Sum
• Joining a list

Python Fundamentals

• If Statements in Python
• While Loops in Python
• For Loops in Python
• Destructuring Syntax
• Iterating over Dictionaries
• Break and Continue
• The Else Keyword with Loops
• Finding Prime Numbers with For Loops
• List Slicing in Python
• List Comprehension in Python
• Comprehensions with Conditional Statements
• Set and Dictionary Comprehensions
• The Zip Function
• Functions in Python
• Arguments and Parameters
• Functions and Return Values in Python
• Default Parameter Values
• Lambda Functions in Python
• First Class and Higher Order Functions

Milestone Project 1

• Installing Python on your Computer
• Installing PyCharm on your Computer
• Creating the First PyCharm Project
• Setting up the PyCharm Font and Display Settings
• Milestone Project Brief
• Milestone Project Implementation
• Showing the User Movies
• Finding Movies and Retrieving Details

Object-Oriented Programming with Python

• Intro to Object-Oriented Programming with Python
• More about Classes and Objects
• Parameter Naming in Python
• Magic Methods in Python
• Inheritance in Python
• The @property Decorator
• The @classmethod and @staticmethod Decorators in Python
• More @classmethod and @staticmethod Examples

Errors in Python

• Intro to Errors in Python
• Built-in Errors in Python
• Raising Errors in Python
• Creating Errors in Python
• Dealing with Python Errors
• The On-success Block and Re-raising Exceptions
• Debugging with PyCharm

Files in Python

• Files in Python
• Python Exercise: Copying Files
• CSV Files with Python
• JSON Files with Python
• Using the “with” Syntax in Python
• Importing Files
• Python Relative Imports: Children
• Python Relative Imports: Parents
• Importing Errors and Running as a Python Script

Databases in Python and Milestone Project 2

• Intro to Milestone Project 2
• Milestone Project with Lists
• Storing Books in Files
• Using JSON instead of CSV
• Intro to Databases in Python
• Using SQLite in Python
• Some Database Jargons
• Creating Books Table Using Python
• Inserting Books Using Python
• SELECT Examples
• Getting All Books
• UPDATE and DELETE Statements
• Filtering using the WHERE Clause
• Finishing the Milestone Project
• Ordering and Limiting
• Developing the Context Manager in Python
• Errors in Context Managers

Type Hinting in Python

• Typing in Python
• Further Reading

Advanced Built-in Functions in Python

• Generators in Python
• Python Generator Classes and Iterators
• Iterables in Python
• The Filter() Function in Python
• The Map() Function in Python
• Any() and All() Functions in Python
• The enumerate() function

Advanced Python Development

• Mutability in Python
• Argument mutability in Python
• Default values for parameters
• Mutable default arguments (bad idea)
• Argument unpacking in Python
• Queues in Python
• Some interesting Python collections
• Timezones
• Dates and time in Python
• Timing your code with Python
• Regular expressions
• Regex examples
• Regex in Python
• Introduction to logging in Python
• Logging to a File and Other Features

Web Scraping with Python

• Understanding HTML with BeautifulSoup
• More Complex HTML Parsing
• Structuring Parsing Program Better
• Splitting HTML Locators out of the Python Class
• Understanding HTML with the Browser
• Scraping the First Website with Python
• Milestone Project 3: A Quote Scraper
• Quotes Project 2: Structuring a Scraping App in Python
• Quotes Project 3: Getting Locators
• Quotes Project 4: Crafting a Quote Parser
• Quotes Project 5: The Quotes Page
• Quotes Project 6: Recap of the Project
• Milestone Project 4: A Book Scraper + Application
• Books Project 2: Recap of HTML Locators
• Books Project 3: Creating Locators in Python
• Books Project 4: Creating a Page
• Books Project 5: Creating a Book Parser
• Books Project 6: Writing an App File
• Books Project 7: Sorting the Books
• Books Project 8: Constructing a Menu
• ASIDE: The Best Way to Write User Menus
• Books Project 9: Getting Multiple Pages
• Books Project 10: Multiple Pages in Python
• Books Project 11: Getting the Page Count in Python
• Books Project 12: Adding the Logging Module to a Python Project
• A Word on Scraping Pages with JavaScript

Browser Automation with Selenium

• Introduction to this Section
• Review of Quotes Scraping Code
• Downloading ChromeDriver
• Using Chrome in Scraping Code
• New Page Locators
• Interacting with Drop-downs
• Selecting Tags
• Searching for Quotes
• Encapsulating Logic More Simply
• Adding Error Handling
• Implicit and Explicit Waits in Selenium
• Adding Waits to a Program Code

Asynchronous Python Development

• The Dining Philosophers Problem
• Processes and Threads
• The Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
• Example: Threads in Python
• Using Python concurrent.futures with the ThreadPoolExecutor
• Don't Kill Threads
• Multiprocessing in Python
• Using Python concurrent.futures and the ProcessPoolExecutor
• Dealing with Shared State in Threads
• Queuing in Threads with Shared State
• Using Python Generators Instead of Threads
• First Single-threaded Task Scheduler in Python
• Yielding from Another Iterator in Python
• Receiving Data Through Yield
• The Async and Await Keywords
• More explanations and examples
• Asynchronous Scraper
• Making the First Async Request in Python
• Retrieving Multiple Pages Efficiently
• Using the async_timeout for Security
• Turning our Book Scraping Project async
• HTTPS with Python and Mac OS X

Python on the Console and Managing Project Dependencies

• Running Python in the Console
• Running Python
• What is a virtualenv?
• Navigating the Terminal and Using virtualenv
• Using pipenv
• pipenv and virtualenv

Web Development with Flask

• Setting up Project with Pipenv
• First Flask Endpoint
• Returning Information with Flask and Pythons
• Rendering HTML with Flask and Python
• Error Pages and Jinja2 Inheritance
• Rendering Forms with Flask and Python
• Accessing POST Form Data with Flask
• Adding a Form in a Single Endpoint
• Using Jinja2 For Loops to Create a Nice Homepage
• Adding Website Navigation

Interacting with APIs with Python

• Signing up for Openexchangerates
• Getting All Exchange Rates from the API
• Creating a Currency Exchange Library
• Caching Functions with Functools
• Performing TTLCache with Cachetools

Decorators in Python

• A Simple Decorator in Python
• Using Syntax
• Functools Wraps in Python
• Decorating Functions with Parameters
• Decorators with Parameters
• Functions that Accept Multiple Arguments
• Using Generic Decorators for any Function

Advanced Object-Oriented Programming

• Introduction to Multiple Inheritance with Python
• Introduction to Abstract Base Classes (ABCs) in Python
• The Usefulness of ABCs
• The Relationship Between Abstract Base Classes (ABCs) and Interfaces
• The Property Setter in Python

Graphical User Interface (GUI) Development with Tkinter

• Setting up Tkinter
• Hello World in Tkinter
• Labels and Fields
• Packing Components
• Using Frames for Different Layouts
• Starting the Text Editor Project
• Tkinter Notebooks and Creating Files
• Adding a Menu to an Application
• Saving Files to a Disk
• Opening Files
• Binding Shortcuts in Tkinter
• Checking Tabs for Unsaved Changes
• Confirming Exit with Unsaved Changes
• Closing Individual Tabs
• Adding Another Menu
• Adding a Permanent Scrollbar to the Text Area

Unit Testing with Python

• Introduction to this Section
• Testing Functions
• Testing for Errors
• Testing the Multiplication Function
• Writing a Printer Class for Testing
• Testing Classes
• More Printer Tests
• Testing External Libraries
• Conclusion of this Section

Algorithms and Data Structures

• Presentation: Queues, Stacks, and Complexity
• Presentation: Binary Search
• Presentation: Binary Trees
• Presentation: Traversal of Binary Trees
• Presentation: Adding Elements to a Binary Tree
• Adding Elements to a Binary Tree in Python
• Recursion and In order Traversal in Python
• Finding Nodes in a Tree with Python
• Deleting Nodes from a Binary Tree
• Deleting Nodes in Code with Python
• Deleting Nodes with Two Children in a Code
• Testing a Binary Tree

Python Libraries

• Python Libraries Overview
• Using Pylint
• Using Yapf
• Sending E-mails with smtplib
• Sending E-mails with Mailgun
• Creating a Re-usable Mailgun Library
• Sneak Peek: Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Setup

Python Reference/Refresher

• Variables in Python
• String Formatting in Python
• Getting the User Input
• Lists, Tuples, and Sets
• Advanced Set Operations
• Booleans in Python
• If Statements in Python
• The “in” Keyword
• If Statements with the “in” Keyword
• Loops in Python
• List Comprehensions
• Dictionaries
• Destructuring Variables
• Functions in Python
• Function Arguments and Parameters
• Default Parameter Values
• Functions Returning Values
• Lambda Functions in Python
• Dictionary Comprehensions
• Unpacking Arguments
• Unpacking Keyword Arguments
• Object-Oriented Programming in Python
• Magic methods: __str__ and __repr__
• Class Methods and Static Methods
• Class Inheritance
• Class Composition
• Type Hinting
• Importing Files in Python
• Relative Imports in Python
• Errors in Python
• Custom Error Classes
• First-class Functions
• Simple Decorators in Python
• The “at” Syntax for Decorators
• Decorating Functions with Parameters
• Decorators with Parameters
• Mutability in Python
• Mutable Default Parameters