Programming Foundations: Beyond the Fundamentals

Course details

Continue your coding journey as you dive deeper into the foundational concepts, practices, and terminology of programming. In this installment of the Programming Foundations series, instructor Sasha Vodnik goes beyond the basics, using Python to tackle a variety of intermediate and advanced concepts and skills you can add to your programming repertoire. Sasha covers creating and working with collections and loops, combining and manipulating strings, and using external code—all of which are critical concepts, regardless of which programming language you end up working with. He goes over several essential processes, such as choosing a code style and debugging. Plus, he digs into a few more advanced concepts, including memory management and multithreading.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Broadening your knowledge of programming fundamentals
02 - What you should know
03 - Configuring your environment

1. Collections

04 - Understanding collections
05 - Creating simple collections
06 - Creating more complex collections
07 - Working with collections
08 - Collections in other languages
09 - Challenge - Working with a collection
10 - Solution - Working with a collection

2. Iteration

11 - Introduction to iteration
12 - Iterating through collections
13 - Iterating to a custom endpoint
14 - Challenge - Creating a for loop
15 - Solution - Creating a for loop

3. Using External Code

16 - Comparing types of external code
17 - Working with a module
18 - Understanding libraries and frameworks

4. Working with Strings

19 - Combining and manipulating strings
20 - Finding patterns in strings
21 - Creating regular expressions
22 - Challenge - Strings
23 - Solution - Strings

5. Planning a Program

24 - Choosing a code style
25 - Writing pseudocode

6. Input and Output

26 - Introduction to input and output
27 - Working with file input and output

7. Debugging

28 - Introduction to debugging
29 - Debugging code in an IDE
30 - Interpreting error messages
31 - Debugging without error messages
32 - Creating a test case
33 - Challenge - Debugging
34 - Solution - Debugging

8. Object Orientation

35 - Introduction to object-oriented programming
36 - Using built-in classes
37 - Creating custom classes and objects

9. Advanced Topics

38 - Advanced topics in programming
39 - Memory management across languages
40 - Introduction to multithreading
41 - Introduction to algorithms

Conclusion

42 - Continuing your programming quest