Pythonic Programming Tips for Software Engineers

This course offers almost one hundred tips that explain how to write Pythonic code in the namesake language.

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35 Lessons

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This course offers almost one hundred tips that explain how to write Pythonic code in the namesake language.

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This course includes

250 Playgrounds

22 Quizzes

This course includes

250 Playgrounds

22 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to learn the correct Pythonian way of writing highly performant code that is easy to maintain and grow. The course is divided into six chapters: documentation tips, data types/data structures tips, safety tips, performance tips, function design tips, and general tips. Throughout each chapter, you will get hands-on experience working with real Python code to help ingrain each concept. By the end, you will know how to make your programs correct, saf...Show More

What You'll Learn

Learn how to document the code in pythonic way

Learn how to simplify complex code

Learn how to write more flexible code

Learn how to enhance the readability of the code

Learn how to throw exceptions for minor errors

Learn how to use basic operations with strings and files more efficiently

Learn how to write safe and secure function calls

What You'll Learn

Learn how to document the code in pythonic way

Course Content

Introduction

Overview of Pythonic Programming

Documentation Tips

Import and Ownership Tips

Quotes and Letter Case Related Tips

Input, Variables, and Enumeration Related Tips

Exercise 1: A Well-Documented Function with Enums

General Tips

Comparison and Condition Tips

Loop Related Tips

Strings and Files Related Tips

Miscellaneous Tips

Exercise 2: Pickling Data

Challenge 1: Evaluating the Expression

Data Types and Data Structures Tips

Tuples, Lists, and Strings Tips

Modules and Class Related Tips

Counting Tips

Numbers Related Tips

Exercise 3: The Most Frequent Letters

Function Tips

Return Related Tips

Function Calls Related Tips

Exercise 4: Explore Generators

Challenge 2: Let's work with lists, tuples and strings

Performance Tips

5 Lessons

Safety Tips

9 Lessons

Wrapping Up

1 Lesson

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Evan Dunbar

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Carlos Matias La Borde

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Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

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Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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