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136 Lessons

37h

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This course includes

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10 Quizzes

This course includes

200 Playgrounds

10 Quizzes

Course Overview

Writing high quality code is one of the highly desirable traits of software engineers in the industry. This course is useful for anyone interested in creating scalable and maintainable software design in Python. It is assumed that the learner is already familiar with the principles of object-oriented software design and has experience writing code in Python. In this course, you’ll go through the content in an increasing order of complexity, starting from the basics of Python. The course covers some advanc...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of general software engineering principles to write maintainable code in Python

An understanding of SOLID principles for effective object-oriented design in Python

Hands-on experience with decorators for reusing code, separating responsibilities, and creating granular functions in Python

Familiarity with descriptors to improve code readability in Python

Hands-on experience with generators, iterators, and asynchronous programming in Python

Familiarity with unit testing and refactoring in Python

What You'll Learn

An understanding of general software engineering principles to write maintainable code in Python

Course Content

Preface

Getting Started with Clean Code in Python

Introduction to Clean Code, Code Formatting, and Tools

An Introduction to Clean Code Code Formatting Documentation: Code Comments Documentation: Docstrings Documentation: Annotations Tooling for Type Consistency and General Validations Tooling for Automatic Formatting Quiz on Introduction to Clean Code, Code Formatting, and Tools

Pythonic Code

Indexes and Slices

Context Managers Comprehensions and Assignment Expressions Properties, Attributes, and Different Types of Methods for Objects Creating Classes with a More Compact Syntax Iterable Objects Other Properties, Attributes, and Methods Summary of Magic Methods Caveats in Python Quiz on Pythonic Code

General Traits of Good Code

Design by Contract Defensive Programming Best Practices for Exception Handling Using Assertions in Python Separation of Concerns Acronyms to Live By Inheritance in Python Multiple Inheritance in Python Arguments in Functions and Methods Variable Number of Arguments in Python More on How Function Arguments Work in Python Optimizing the Number of Arguments in Functions Final Remarks on Good Practices for Software Design Quiz on General Traits of Good Code

The SOLID Principles

The Single Responsibility Principle The Open/Closed Principle Liskov's Substitution Principle Integration Segregation Principle Dependency Inversion Principle Quiz on the SOLID Principles Challenge: The Single Responsibility Principle Solution: The Single Responsibility Principle

Using Decorators to Improve Our Code

18 Lessons

Getting More Out of Our Objects with Descriptors

14 Lessons

Generators, Iterators, and Asynchronous Programming

15 Lessons

Unit Testing and Refactoring

18 Lessons

10.

Common Design Patterns

16 Lessons

11.

Clean Architecture

12 Lessons

12.

Conclusion

2 Lessons

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Evan Dunbar

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Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

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Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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