Your custom Python Course

Introduction & Setup

Python history, installation, REPL, scripts, PEP 8

Variables & Data Types

Learn how to store and manipulate data

Operators & Expressions

Arithmetic, comparison and logical operators

Input & Output

User input and formatted output

If/Else Conditions

Conditional logic and branching

For & While Loops

Iteration and loop control

List Comprehensions

Compact loop expressions

match/case Pattern Matching

Structural pattern matching with match/case

Lists & Tuples

Ordered collections of data

Dictionaries & Sets

Key-value pairs and unique collections

String Manipulation

Working with text data efficiently

collections Module

Counter, defaultdict, deque, ChainMap, namedtuple

Enums

Enum, IntEnum, Flag for type-safe constants

Bytes & Encoding

bytes, bytearray and text encoding

Date & Time

datetime, timedelta, zoneinfo

Defining Functions

Parameters, return values, scope

Lambda & Higher-Order Functions

Anonymous functions, map, filter, reduce

Decorators

Function wrappers and metaprogramming

Classes & Objects

Object-oriented programming fundamentals

Inheritance & Polymorphism

Code reuse through class hierarchies

Magic Methods & Protocols

Dunder methods and Python protocols

Try/Except & Exceptions

Handling errors gracefully

Custom Exceptions

Creating domain-specific error types

File I/O

Reading and writing files

Modules & Packages

Organizing code into reusable modules

Virtual Environments & pip

Dependency management

Logging instead of print

Structured logging, levels, handlers

Tkinter GUI

Build desktop GUIs: windows, widgets, layout, events, canvas

Generators & Iterators

Lazy evaluation and memory efficiency

Context Managers

Resource management with with-statement

Image Processing with Pillow

Open, transform, filter and save images

LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic)

Integrate OpenAI / Anthropic APIs into Python apps

Regular Expressions

Pattern matching in text

Testing with pytest

Unit testing and test-driven development

APIs & Web Requests

Working with REST APIs using requests