Complete Python Programming Course

• Introduction To The Course

• jupyter notebook using Anaconda
• Python for Window
• Installing jupyter notebook using Anaconda for Windows
• Python for Mac
• Install jupyter notebook using for Mac
• Python for Linux
• Install jupyter notebook using for Linux
• Configuring jupyter notebook using - WINDOWS, MAC and LINUX
• Further configuration of jupyter notebook using.
• Basic Linux Command

• Introduction
• Our First Python Program
• Printing in Python
• Printing text
• Printing the result of a calculation
• Strings in Python
• The Escape Character
• Printing tabs
• More on Escape Characters in Strings
• Variables and Types
• Python is a Strongly Typed Language
• Numeric Data Types in Python
• Numeric Operator
• Expressions
• Integer division
• Operator Precedence
• The str String Data Type
• Negative Indexing in Strings
• Slicing
• Slicing with Negative Numbers
• Using a Step in a Slice
• Slicing Backwards
• Challenge Solution and Slicing Idioms
• String Operators
• String Replacement Fields
• String Formatting
• f-strings
• Python 2 String Interpolation
• Section Summary
• The Basics of Python

• Introduction to Blocks and Statements
• if Statements
• elif
• Using a Debugger in IntelliJ or Pycharm
• More on if, elif and else
• if, elif, and else in the Debugger
• Using if with strings
• Simple condition
• Adding a Second Guess
• Conditional Operators
• Challenge Solution
• Using and, or, in Conditions
• Simplify Chained Comparison
• Boolean Expression True and False
• Truthy Values
• in and not in
• if Challenge
• Solution to if Challenge
• for loops
• Stepping through a for loop
• for loops Extracting Values from User Input
• Extracting capitals
• Iterating Over a Range
• For loop
• More About Ranges
• For loop with step
• Nested for loops
• continue
• break
• Initialising Variables and None
• while loops
• More on while loops
• Break in a while loop
• Break
• Continue
• The Random Module and Import
• Challenge Solution
• Binary Search
• Hi Lo Game
• Pass Statement and Complete the Hi Lo Game
• Testing the Hi Lo Game
• Augmented Assignment
• augmented assignment in a loop
• PEP8: The Python Style Guide
• Refactoring Code
• else in a loop
• else in the Hi Lo Game
• Conditional Debugging
• Another else Example
• Section Summary and Challenge
• Section Challenge Solution
• Optional Extra Challenge Solution
• Changing the Condition
• Flow Control Quiz

• Introduction to Sequence Types
• Lists
• Immutable Objects
• Mutable Objects
• Binding Multiple Names to a List
• Common Sequence Operations
• Operations on Mutable Sequences
• Appending to a List
• Mini Challenge Solution
• Iterating Over a List
• The enumerate Function
• Improving our Code
• Adding items to lists
• Removing Items from a List
• Sorting Lists
• Built-in Functions
• Sorting Things
• Case-Insensitive Sorting
• Creating Lists
• Replacing a slice
• Deleting Items from a List
• Safely removing values from a list
• Removing the High Values
• Test, Test and Test. Then Test Again!
• Testing the Program
• Removing Items from a List Backwards
• The Reversed Function
• Algorithms Performance
• Summary so far
• Nested Lists & Code Style
• Processing Nested Lists
• Solution to nospam Challenge
• Function Signatures
• print revisited
• The join Method
• The split Method
• Solution to Mini Challenge
• The Magical Adder
• Tuples
• Tuples are Immutable
• Unpacking a Tuple
• Practical uses for Unpacking Tuples
• More Unpacking
• Nested Tuples and Lists
• Solution to Unpacking Challenge
• Nesting Further
• Nested Data Structures
• Nested Indexing
• Nested indexing
• Simple Jukebox - Demonstration
• Simple Jukebox - Importing Data
• Simple Jukebox - The Code
• Constants in Python
• Finishing the Code
• Challenge
• Challenge Solution
• Summary

• Introduction
• Defining a function
• Program flow when calling a function
• Parameters and arguments
• Debugging with parameters
• Palindromes
• Palindrome challenge solution
• Sentence challenge solution
• Functions calling functions
• Returning values
• get_integer Challenge solution
• Sum even or odd numbers in a range
• Returning None
• Functions that perform actions
• Handling invalid arguments
• width challenge solution
• Default parameter values
• Keyword arguments
• Docstrings
• Writing a Docstring
• How professional is that!
• Solution to Docstrings challenge
• Fibonacci Numbers
• Writing a fibonacci function
• Function annotations and type hints
• Function annotations with default values
• Solution to banner_text Docstring challenge
• A history lesson
• Printing in colour
• Running your program like a user
• Windows Only - Installing pre-release version of colorama
• colorama module and virtual environments
• Activating a virtual environment
• A function to test our HiLo game
• Counting correct guesses
• Fizz Buzz
• Playing Fizz Buzz
• Playing Fizz Buzz Solution
• Factorial function
• *args
• colour_print with multiple arguments
• Rules for variable number of arguments
• Defining different parameter types
• Variable number of arguments
• Section Summary

• Introduction
• What is a dictionary?
• Iterating over a dictionary
• Adding items to a dictionary
• Changing values in a dictionary
• Removing items from a dictionary
• Using `in` with a dictionary
• Dictionary menu challenge solution
• Using a list with a dictionary
• Adding items to a dictionary
• Smart fridge
• What's for tea?
• Using several dictionaries together
• Checking the pantry
• Checking quantities - choosing a data structure
• Checking quantities - the code
• Solution: Create a shopping list challenge
• Wrong decisions don't have to be fatal
• The setdefault method
• Character counter
• APIs and a mobile phone demo
• The `dict` documentation
• The remaining `dict` methods
• The dict `update` method
• The dict `values` method
• References to mutable objects
• Shallow copy
• Shallow copy step-by-step
• Deep copy
• Simple deep copy solution
• Hash functions
• A really bad hashing function
• Hash tables
• Completing our simple dictionary implementation
• Hash functions and security
• hashlib, the secure hash module
• Introduction to Android-Tim
• Introduction to sets
• Python sets
• Implications of sets being unordered
• set membership
• Testing set membership is fast
• Adding items to a set
• Using a set to remove duplicate values
• Deleting items from a set
• The `discard` method
• The `remove` method
• The `pop` method
• set union
• Set union in practice
• Union update
• Advantage of the set operation methods over the operators
• Set intersection
• Set intersection in practice
• Intersection update
• Set difference
• Set difference in practice
• Difference
• Set symmetric difference
• subsets and supersets
• subsets and supersets in Python
• Practical application of subsets and supersets
• Summary

• Introduction
• Files and directories
• Introduction to the command prompt or terminal
• Paths
• Text files
• Reading from a text file
• Opening a file using `with`
• read, readline and readlines
• strip, lstrip and rstrip
• removeprefix and removesuffix in Python 3.9
• Parsing data in a text file
• Working with text data
• Solution to capital city challenge
• Dictionary values with multiple keys
• Printing data to a text file
• Writing data to a text file
• File modes
• Unicode – a brief history
• Unicode in Python
• File encodings
• Serializing data using JSON
• Limitations of JSON
• Practical application - parsing JSON data
• Practical application - parsing JSON data from the internet
• The CSV format
• Reading a CSV file
• quoting in a CSV file
• Sniffer and Dialect
• CSV Dialect
• Writing a CSV file
• The csv DictReader
• Solution to DictReader challenge
• Field names with DictReader and DictWriter
• Reading and writing multiple files
• The csv DictWriter
• The `zip` function
• Reading and writing to the same text file
• Solution to parsing functions challenge
• The record_invoice function
• Using the `record_invoice` function
• seek and tell
• Improving the `record_invoice` function
• Summary of working with text files
• Working with binary files - bytes and bytearray
• Reading a bitmap file
• Little endian and big endian
• Making sense of binary data
• Reading tags in an mp3 file
• The ID3v2 specification
• The code
• Filling in the blanks
• Extracting images
• Testing our read_id3 program

Checking the hash of a file

• Summary of working with binary files
• End of Remaster

• Introduction to the Section
• Modules and import
• The standard Python library
• WebBrowser Module
• Time and DateTime in Python
• Time (Continued) and Challenge.
• Timezones
• Check Path In Windows
• Check Path on a Mac
• FAQ: Installing packages in IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm
• Installing the pytz module (Windows/Mac/Linux)
• Using Timezones

Preview

• More on Timezones
• Timezone Challenge
• Introduction to Tkinter
• TkInter - Pack Geometry Manager
• TkInter - Grid Geometry Manager
• Advanced GUI Example Part 1

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• Advanced GUI Example Part 2
• Advanced GUI Example Part 3
• Tkinter Challenge
• Functions in Python
• Functions Part 2
• Functions Part 3

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• Parabola - More on Functions
• Scope in Functions
• Fix Function and Draw Circles
• Enhanced Circles and Challenge

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• Blackjack Setup

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• Load Cards
• Deal Card
• Global Variables
• Global Keyword
• Test Blackjack Game
• Blackjack Challenge
• Importing Techniques
• Underscores in Python code
• Namespaces, more on Scope and Recursion
• Recursion with OS Module and Filesystem and Nonlocal keyword
• Nonlocal keyword, Free and LEGB

• Object Orientated Programming and Classes
• Instances, Constructors, Self and more
• Class Attributes
• Methods Part 1
• Methods Part 2
• Non Public and Mangling
• DocStrings and Raw Literals
• Album class and More on DocStrings
• Artist class and import Albums
• Load data and Write Checkfile
• Compare Files and Algorithm Flowcharts
• Implement Revised Load_Data Algorithm
• Write OOP Version
• Getters and Properties
• Remove Circular References Challenge
• Getters and Setters
• Data Attributes and Properties
• Alternate Syntax for Properties
• Inheritance
• Subclasses and Overloading
• Calling Super Methods
• Changing Behavior of Methods
• Overriding Methods
• Inheritance Challenge
• Polymorphism
• Duck Test
• Composition
• Composition Continued
• Test Code and Challenge
• Aggregation

• Introduction to Databases
• Database Terminology
• Sqlite3 Install on Windows
• Sqlite3 Install on a Mac
• SQLite3 Install on Ubuntu Linux
• Introduction to SQLite
• More with SQL using SQLite
• Querying data with Sqlite
• Order by and Joins
• More complex Joins
• Wildcards and Views
• Housekeeping and the Challenge
• SQL in Python
• Connections, Cursors and Transactions
• SQL Injection Attacks
• Placeholders and Parameter Substitution
• Exceptions
• Exceptions Challenge
• Exceptions Continued
• Raising Exceptions
• More on Exceptions
• Exceptions and TODO
• Rolling back Transactions
• Adding Database code to the Account Class
• GUI Database Editing Overview
• Ultimate Edition Database View
• Problems with Community Edition database plugin
• Update Deposit and Withdrawal Methods
• Displaying Time in Different Timezones
• SQLite3 strftime Function
• Challenge
• Problems Storing Timezones
• Rolling Back Transactions
• Simple Database Browser
• Scrollbars
• Star Args
• Kwargs
• More on KWArgs
• Scrollable Listbox
• Populating a Listbox from a Database
• Show Songs from Album
• The DataListbox Class Code
• Linking our DataListBoxes
• Linking our DataListBoxes Continued
• DataListbox Challenge
  
  

• Introduction
• Generators and Yield
• Next and Ranges
• Generator Examples - Fibonacci numbers and Calculating Pi
• The os.walk Generator
• Searching the Filesystem
• Reading Mp3 Tags
• List Comprehensions
• List Comprehensions and Side-Effects
• Challenge Solutions
• Conditional Comprehensions
• Conditional Expressions
• Challenges
• Challenge 1 Solution
• Challenge 2 Solution
• Nested Comprehensions
• Nested Comprehensions Challenge
• The timeit Module
• More on timeit
• timeit Continued and Challenge
• timeit Challenge
• Map Intro
• Map Challenge Completion
• The Filter Function
• The Reduce Function
• any and all
• Named Tuples
• any and all with Comprehensions

Lambda expressions

• Using lambdas
• More lambdas
• Conditional expressions
• Conditional expression challenge
• A lambda with a conditional expression
• A toy calculator
• A lambda in a loop
• Methods of some state-carrying object
• Frame makes a good base class
• `eval` is dangerous!
• Control all input to `eval`
• Mitigating the danger of `eval`
• Functions are objects

• Big O notation
• Big O tables and graphs
• Bubble sort
• Big O of Bubble sort, and an optimisation
• Big O of our improved Bubble sort
• Bubble sort optimisation
• Best, worst and average cases
• Big O summaryy

• Introduction to the section
• The turtle module
• Importing specific objects
• Namespaces and global scope
• Local scope
• Builtins
• Nested functions
• Enclosing scope
• A little white lie, or an oversimplification
• Changing the value of a free variable
• Investigating changes to a free variable
• The `nonlocal` keyword
• The `global` keyword
• Importing and the global namespace
• I nearly forgot
• import *
• if name == '__main__':
• An optimisation you may see in code
• The webbrowser module
• Dates and times in Python
• The datetime module's date class
• `timedelta` objects
• The datetime module's time class
• `datetime.date`, and another note about importing
• Aware and naive times
• zoneinfo backport
• timezone objects
• Timezone challenge solution
• Some behaviour you might not expect
• Perform arithmetic in UTC (most of the time)