Intermediate Python

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Get an overview of the course, take a look at Python's quirky history, and learn why Python is a powerful way of thinking.

Take a deep dive into data in Python, craft new ways to abstractly think about data, and practice concrete methods for manipulating Python's essential data types.

Explore functions and functional programming in Python, including function parameters and functions as manipulable objects.

Discover Python's tools for object-oriented programming and explore Python's exception hierarchy.

Learn all about reading and writing data files using Python, including plain text, JSON, and CSV files.

In this lesson, we'll introduce your instructor, give a brief overview of the course, and look ahead to what you'll be building for your final project.

We'll explore the Python language and the core programming design patterns you'll need to write clear and concise code—including object-oriented programming, documentation, typing, and tests.

Large codebases are built by combining many smaller building blocks of code known as modules. We'll build on our knowledge of object-oriented programming to create scalable Python modules.

The Python community has thousands of publically available, open-source libraries we can use as modules in our software. We'll learn how we can install and use these resources!

We'll learn how to effectively interface with our software through the command line as well as use other powerful command-line tools in our Python code

Learn how to use Python to consume web content and serve complex applications!

The Unix shell is a powerful tool for developers of all sorts. In this lesson, you'll get a quick introduction to the very basics of using it on your own computer.