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

Preview

• Parabola - More on Functions

• Scope in Functions

• Fix Function and Draw Circles

• Enhanced Circles and Challenge

Preview

• Blackjack Setup

Preview

• 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)