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You're reading from Python 3 from Beginner to Expert - Learn Python from Scratch Designed for people who don't have any knowledge about programming and want to program in Python

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Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838552787

Length 20hrs 1min

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Scratch

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Arkadiusz Włodarczyk

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

1. Python Basics FREE CHAPTER

introduction
what is Python? installation and First Execution
Variables, Creating and Running External Script, interactive Shell
Comments
Types of Variables
Math Operators
Exercise: Adding VAT to Products
Semicolon and ENTER - Assigning Multiple Values to Variables at Once
Assignment Operators
Playing with Strings (Slicing, Adding, and Having Fun)

2. Functions and Libraries Basics

importing Libraries, what Are Functions - Basics
important Video about Common Mistakes Regarding Functions
Taking Data from User and Type Conversion (Casting)

3. Conditional Statements

Comparison (Relational) Operators
instruction 'if' why indentation is important in Python
Exercise: Simple Calculator
Values Different than 0
Logical Operators

4. Loops

while Loop
Exercise: Adding Numbers Taken from the User
For Loop
instruction Break and Continue
Exercise: Guess the Number

5. Lists

what Are Lists? Basic Operations on Lists
Checking whether Element is 'in' or 'not in' the List
Exercise: Giving Secret Access
Operating on Lists with Functions

6. Advanced Types

Tuples - what Does immutable Mean?
Dictionaries
Sets
Operations on Sets
Nested Types
Processing Nested Types Using Loops
Dictionary inside Dictionary, Dictionary inside List - when to Choose which?
Extracting (iterating Through) Values from Nested Dictionaries
Exercise: Dynamic Dictionary with Definitions

7. Transformations

List Comprehensions
Generator Expressions
Dictionary Comprehension
Set Comprehension
Exercise: Finding Numbers That Are Divisible by 7, but Not Divisible by 5

8. Functions

what Are functions? How to Create a Function? why Should we Use Functions?
Multiple Parameters in Function (Passing More Arguments)
Returning Values from Function

9. Functions - Advanced

Multi-Module Application | How to import Your Own Module
Enum - what it is and why You Should Use it?
Exercise: Sum of All Numbers Up to the One Entered by User
Measuring Performance of Code | How well (Fast) Some Parts of Code work | Time
Function as Argument of Another Function | How to Measure Performance of Function
Default Arguments
Named (Keyword) and Unnamed (Positional) Arguments
Exercise - Checking whether Value is in Container
Variable Length Argument (Multiple Arguments Sent and Saved in a Single Parameter)
Local Versus Global Variables - Scope - Lifetime of Variables
Mutable Versus immutable Objects
Shallow Versus Deep Copy of Object
Lambda | Anonymous Functions - what Are They? when Should You Use Them?
Use the any () Function to Determine if a List Contains Any Even Numbers

10. Random Numbers

Drawing Random Numbers - Creating a Program that Checks whether You Hit the Monster
Random Events - Choice Versus Choices Function
Shuffle - Shuffling Cards in 'war' Game
Exercise: Drawing Elements without Repetition - Lottery Game - Six Numbers from 49
Exercise | Game | Drawing Random Chests Colors with Random Rewards
Exercise | Game | Drawing Approximate Value to a Certain Value

11. working with Files in Python and Exceptions | i/O Operations

what is a File? How to Create it? why Do we Need to it? How to Save Data?
Exceptions, Try, Finally Block
Opening the File Using: with'¦as'¦
Reading the Content of a File - read Versus readlines, Splitting Lines, Encoding
seek and Tell - Changing and Reading the Position of Last Operation in File
Append - Adding Text at the End of File
a+, r+, w+ - Two Function File Opening Modes
Keyword Except - Catching Exceptions - Exercise - Loading Names and Surnames

12. JSON

what is JSON? why Do we Use it? what Problems Does JSON Solve?
Creating and Saving Data from Python in JSON Format to File and String
Loading Data from JSON File to Python
Pretty Printer - Loading/Saving Pretty and Sorted JSON

13. pip | PyPi – Using External Packages

what is pip and PyPi? installing and Playing with External Package - Request
Loading Data from Server from JSON File - Preface to Next Exercise
Processing JSON Data | Extracting Top Values from List of Dictionaries
Refactoring - Making Our Code Easier to Maintain from the Previous Lecture
Solution 1: Retrieving a Few Users from Server at the Same Time
Solution 2: Retrieving a Few Users from Server at the Same Time
Solution 3: Retrieving a Few Users from Server at the Same Time
defaultdict Supplying Missing Values of Dictionary when Accessing Empty Element

14. APi

what is Public APi? where to Find it? Stackoverflow APi
Getting JSON from stackoverflow.com -> Getting Top Questions from Last week
Opening websites from Python Code - webbrowser Module
Getting Records from Last week - Datetime Module
Exercise: Cat Facts
Exercise: Random Cat images by Breed
Authorization - Log in Using APi Key - Getting Holiday Calendar

15. APi – Header Authorization – POST and DELETE

Authorization Through Header - Settings
Exercise: Cat System - introduction
POST - Adding a Cat to Favorite List
DELETE - Removing a Cat from Favorite List

16. Visual Studio Code – installation and Settings

VSC – Downloading and installing
Setting Up the workspace in VSC and installing Basic Extensions
Linter - what is Linting - How to Use it, Settings in .vscode
Code Runner | Custom Shortcuts | Shortcuts from Other Editors, interactive Shell
Auto Save - Making Sure Your File is Saved after Each Change
Snippets and Pass Keyword
Automatic Code Formatting
Debugging Mode - How to Professionally Debug Your Code
Ligatures - Custom Font Created Especially for Programmers - Fira Code

17. Visual Studio Code – Useful Extensions

icons Theme
Bracket Pair Colorizer - improving the Readability of Your Code
Python Preview - watching the Code Execution while writing it
Python Quick Print
Code Spell Checker

18. OOP – Object-Oriented Programming

what is Object-Oriented Programming?
what Are Objects and Classes? How to Create a Simple Object and Class?
Creating Your First Method - what is "self"?
__init__ - Sending Arguments to Class for initialization
Exercise: Create Rockets That Can Move Up
Document String - docstring
__str__ - Dunder Method Representing Text of Object
Exercise: Organizing More than One Class - Rocket Board
__getitem__, __setitem__ - Setting and Getting Values Using Dunder Methods
Exercise: Counting Distance Between Rockets
is it important to Understand Math That was Used in the Previous Lecture?
Static Methods
Setting Type for Variables Using Annotations - Pyright Extension
__len__
Class / Static Variables - Creating USER with Unique iDs
Exercise: Bank Account - withdraw/Deposit Money
How to Properly Handle Returned Values from Methods
inheritance and Method Overriding – super ()
Exercise: inheritance on a Practical Example - Result
Exercise: Playing with Cube, Square, and Rectangle
inheritance Versus Association - when to Use which?

19. Generator Functions

Generator Functions - yield Keyword
Exercise: Generate infinite Amount of Numbers Multiplied by Themselves
Send Method - How to Send a Value into a Generator?

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