Overview
Are you looking to enhance your python proficiency to help boost your career prospects? Building a satisfying career can be a lifelong process but if you want to gain a competitive edge in your job search, look no further!
With this Python 3 – Beginner To Expert course, you will build the solid foundation you need to kickstart a successful career in the python industry.
The course covers the essential things you need to know to boost your career within the python. It provides you with the ability to improve your earning potential.
Covering everything you need to know to boost your career within python, this industry recognised certification includes 129 comprehensive bite-sized modules that you can learn in your own time, pace and environment. Complete your course and earn your qualification in just 18 hours 47 minutes with dedicated online support you can trust and rely on.
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Who is this course for?
Whether you are looking to enhance your employment prospects, boost your CV with essential skills or climb the career ladder to a higher position, this Python 3 – Beginner To Expert course will work as an initial step towards earning an internationally-recognised qualification that could prove invaluable for your career.
This Python 3 – Beginner To Expert course has been designed for learners who are looking to gain the skills and credentials to fast track a fulfilling career in python.
Entry Requirement
The Python 3 – Beginner To Expert course is for learners of all levels, with no specific enrolment requirements; all you need is the commitment to learn, knowledge of the English language, and basic numeracy and IT skills. Students must be over the age of 16.
Certification
Once you have successfully completed the Python 3 – Beginner To Expert course, you will receive an accredited certificate from Queen Mary Academy as validation of your new skills. Certification is available in PDF format, at the cost of £12, or a hard copy can be sent via post at the cost of £27.
Career path
On successful completion of the Python 3 – Beginner To Expert course, learners will have the knowledge, skills and credentials to enter the relevant job market, with the confidence to explore a wide range of industry-related professions. Students will be able to add this qualification to their CV/resume, giving them a head start in their chosen field.
Course Curriculum
| Python Basics | |||
| What is Python? Installation and first execution | 00:08:00 | ||
| Variables, creating and running external script, interactive Shell | 00:14:00 | ||
| Comments | 00:03:00 | ||
| Types of Variables | 00:09:00 | ||
| Math Operators | 00:10:00 | ||
| Exercise: adding VAT to products | 00:08:00 | ||
| Semicolon and ENTER – assigning multiple values to variables at once | 00:04:00 | ||
| Assignment operators | 00:02:00 | ||
| Playing with Strings (Slicing, adding and having fun) | 00:10:00 | ||
| Functions and Libraries Basics | |||
| Importing libraries, what are functions – basics | 00:10:00 | ||
| ATTENTION – important lecture about common mistake regarding functions | 00:05:00 | ||
| Taking data from user and type conversion (casting) | 00:11:00 | ||
| Conditional statements | |||
| Comparison (Relational) Operators | 00:05:00 | ||
| Instruction ‘if’ why INDENTATION is IMPORTANT in Python | DO NOT SKIP! | 00:10:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Simple Calculator | 00:11:00 | ||
| Values different than 0 | 00:03:00 | ||
| Logical Operators | 00:10:00 | ||
| Loops | |||
| Loop while | 00:06:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Adding numbers taken from the user | 00:08:00 | ||
| Loop for | 00:06:00 | ||
| Instruction break and continue | 00:11:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Guess the number | 00:08:00 | ||
| Lists | |||
| What are Lists? Basic operations on lists | 00:09:00 | ||
| Checking if element is ‘in’ or ‘not in’ the list | 00:02:00 | ||
| Operating on lists with Functions | 00:13:00 | ||
| Advanced Types | |||
| Tuples – what does immutable mean? | 00:05:00 | ||
| Dictionaries | 00:10:00 | ||
| Sets | 00:07:00 | ||
| Operations on sets | 00:07:00 | ||
| Nested types | 00:12:00 | ||
| Processing nested types using loops | 00:03:00 | ||
| Dictionary inside Dictionary, Dictionary inside List – when to choose which? | 00:08:00 | ||
| Extracting (Iterating Through) values from nested dictionaries | 00:19:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Dynamic dictionary with definitions | 00:12:00 | ||
| Transformations | |||
| List comprehensions | 00:10:00 | ||
| Generator Expressions | 00:11:00 | ||
| Dictionary Comprehensions | 00:14:00 | ||
| Set Comprehension | 00:02:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Finding numbers that are divisible by 7, but are not divisible by 5 | 00:10:00 | ||
| Functions - Basics | |||
| What are functions? How to create a function? Why should we use functions? | 00:10:00 | ||
| Multiple parameters in function (passing more arguments) | 00:04:00 | ||
| Returning values from function | 00:12:00 | ||
| Functions - Advanced | |||
| Multi module application | How to import your own module? | 00:09:00 | ||
| enum – what it is and why you should use it? | 00:13:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Sum of all numbers up to the one entered by user | IMPORTANT lecture | 00:13:00 | ||
| Measuring PERFORMANCE of code | How well (fast) some part of code work | time | 00:15:00 | ||
| Function as argument of another function | How to measure performance of func | 00:07:00 | ||
| default arguments | 00:07:00 | ||
| named (keyword) and unnamed (positional) arguments | 00:08:00 | ||
| EXERCISE – checking if value is in container | 00:06:00 | ||
| Variable Length Argument (Multiple Arguments sent and saved in single parameter) | 00:11:00 | ||
| Local vs Global Variables – scope – lifetime of variables | 00:09:00 | ||
| Mutable vs immutable objects | 00:21:00 | ||
| Shallow vs Deep copy of object | 00:14:00 | ||
| Lambda | Anonymous functions – what are they? when should you use them? | 00:11:00 | ||
| Random Numbers | |||
| Drawing random numbers – creating a program that checks if you hit the monster | 00:14:00 | ||
| Random events – choice vs choices function | 00:09:00 | ||
| shuffle – shuffling cards in ‘war’ game | 00:03:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Drawing elements without REPETITION – lottery game – 6 numbers from 49 | 00:12:00 | ||
| EXERCISE | GAME | Drawing random chests colours with random rewards | 00:25:00 | ||
| EXERCISE | GAME | Drawing approximate value to a certain value | 00:08:00 | ||
| Working With Files in Python and Exceptions | |||
| What is a file? How to create it? Why do we need to CLOSE it? How to save data? | 00:10:00 | ||
| Exceptions, try, finally block | 00:04:00 | ||
| Opening the file using: with… as…: | 00:03:00 | ||
| Reading the content of file – read vs readlines, splitting lines, encoding | 00:07:00 | ||
| seek and tell – changing and reading the position of last operation in file | 00:05:00 | ||
| append – adding text at the end of file | 00:02:00 | ||
| a+, r+, w+ – two function file opening modes | 00:06:00 | ||
| Keyword except – catching exceptions – EXERCISE – loading names and surnames | 00:12:00 | ||
| JSON | |||
| What is JSON? Why do we use it? What problem does JSON solve? | 00:06:00 | ||
| Creating and saving data from Python in JSON format to file and String | 00:10:00 | ||
| Loading data from JSON file to Python | 00:04:00 | ||
| Pretty Printer – loading/saving pretty and sorted JSON | 00:07:00 | ||
| pip and PyPi - using External Packages | |||
| What is pip and PyPi? Installing and playing with external package – request | 00:11:00 | ||
| Loading data from server from JSON file – preface to next EXERCISE | 00:10:00 | ||
| Processing JSON data | extracting top values from list of dictionaries | 00:18:00 | ||
| SOLUTION 1: Retrieving a few users from server at the same time | 00:07:00 | ||
| SOLUTION 2: Retrieving a few users from server at the same time | 00:05:00 | ||
| SOLUTION 3: Retrieving a few users from server at the same time | 00:12:00 | ||
| defaultdict supplying missing values of dictionary when accessing empty element | 00:06:00 | ||
| API | |||
| What is public API? Where to find them? stackoverflow API | 00:12:00 | ||
| Getting JSON from stackoverflow.com -> getting top questions from last week | 00:10:00 | ||
| Opening websites from Python code – webbrowser module | 00:04:00 | ||
| Getting records from last week – datetime module | 00:10:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Cat facts | 00:06:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: random CAT images by breed | 00:02:00 | ||
| Authorization – log in using API key – getting holiday calendar | 00:12:00 | ||
| API - header authorization - POST % DELETE | |||
| Authorization through header – settings | 00:06:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: CAT system – introduction | 00:12:00 | ||
| POST – adding a cat to favourite list | 00:07:00 | ||
| DELETE – removing a cat from favourite list | 00:15:00 | ||
| Visual Studio Code - Installation and Setting | |||
| VSC – downloading and installing | 00:03:00 | ||
| Setting up the workspace in VSC and installing basic extensions | 00:08:00 | ||
| Linter – what is linting – how to use it, settings in .vscode | 00:10:00 | ||
| Code Runner | Custom Shortcuts | Shortcuts from other editors, Interactive shell | 00:11:00 | ||
| Auto Save – making sure your file is saved after each change | 00:01:00 | ||
| Snippets and pass keyword | 00:06:00 | ||
| Automatic code formatting | 00:02:00 | ||
| Debugging mode – how to professionally debug your code? | 00:16:00 | ||
| Ligatures – custom font created especially for programmers – Fira Code | 00:06:00 | ||
| Visual Studio Code - Useful Extensions | |||
| Icons theme | 00:02:00 | ||
| Bracket Pair Colorizer – improving readability of your code | 00:02:00 | ||
| Python Preview – watching the code execution while writing it | 00:06:00 | ||
| Python Quick Print | 00:01:00 | ||
| Code Spell Checker | 00:02:00 | ||
| What is Object Oriented Programming? | 00:04:00 | ||
| OOP - Object Oriented Programming | |||
| What are objects and classes? How to create a simple object and class? | 00:13:00 | ||
| Creating your first method – what is “self”? | 00:14:00 | ||
| __init__ – sending arguments to class for initialization | 00:08:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Create rockets that can move up | 00:11:00 | ||
| Document String – docstring | 00:05:00 | ||
| __str__ – dunder method representing text of object | 00:04:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Organizing more than one class – Rocket Board | 00:10:00 | ||
| __getitem__, __setitem__ – setting and getting values using dunder methods | 00:10:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Counting distance between rockets | 00:21:00 | ||
| Is it important to understand math that was used in the last lecture? | 00:06:00 | ||
| Static Methods | 00:12:00 | ||
| Setting type for variables using annotations – Pyright extension | 00:12:00 | ||
| __len__ | 00:05:00 | ||
| class / static variables – creating USER with unique ids | 00:11:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Bank Account – withdraw/deposit money | 00:07:00 | ||
| How to properly handle returned values from methods? | 00:16:00 | ||
| Inheritance and method overriding – super() | 00:19:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Inheritance on practical example – result | 00:08:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: playing with cube, square and rectangle | 00:09:00 | ||
| Inheritance vs association – when to use which? | 00:16:00 | ||
| Generator functions | |||
| Generator functions – yield keyword | 00:13:00 | ||
| EXERCISE: Generate infinite amount of numbers multiplied by themselves | 00:06:00 | ||
| send method – how to send a value into a generator? | 00:12:00 | ||
| Obtain Your Certificate of Achievement | |||
| Order Your Certificate of Achievement | 00:00:00 | ||
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