Hands-On Introduction: Python

1h 11mIntermediate2025-01-08

Authors

Ronnie Sheer

Software Developer and Instructor

Course details

If you’re an early-stage Python user looking to boost your professional game, you need to set aside the time—and bandwidth—to study up and advance your skills. Practice makes perfect, they say, so why not start right now? In this course, instructor Ronnie Sheer shows you the tools, techniques, and practical know-how of expert Python users, with twenty hands-on, interactive coding challenges to test out your skills as you go. Take your existing Python proficiency to the next level with tips on scope, strings, loops, CSV data, calculations, JSON data sets, web servers, and more. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with newly honed expert moves to keep learning on your upcoming projects.

Skills covered

PythonProgramming LanguagesOpen SourceSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn Python by doing
02 - What you should know
03 - Using GitHub Codespaces with this course

1. Running Python

04 - Hello Python

2. Diving into a Python Project

05 - Scope and indentation
06 - Fancy string work
07 - Getting what you need from lists with slices
08 - Looping and iteration
09 - Logic if elif else

3. Let's Build Something

10 - Reading a CSV file
11 - Making calculations
12 - Outputting JSON
13 - Challenge - Filtering output
14 - Solution - Filtering output

4. Extending a Service

15 - Loading a JSON dataset
16 - Extending a small web server
17 - Searching through data
18 - Challenge - Filtering results
19 - Solution - Filtering results

Hands-On Introduction: Python

Authors

Ronnie Sheer

Course details

Skills covered

Concepts

0. Introduction

1. Running Python

2. Diving into a Python Project

3. Let's Build Something

4. Extending a Service

5. Hands-on Python for AI

6. Python Cheat Sheets

Conclusion

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