Python Diploma

This comprehensive Python Diploma course is ideal for anyone wishing to boost their career profile or advance their career in this field by gaining a thorough understanding of the subject. Anyone willing to gain extensive knowledge on this python can also take this course.

Whether you are a complete beginner or an aspiring professional, this course will provide you with the necessary skills and professional competence, and open your doors to a wide number of professions within your chosen sector.

This Python Diploma course has no academic prerequisites and is open to students from all academic disciplines. You will, however, need a laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone, as well as a reliable internet connection.

This Python Diploma course assesses learners through multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Upon successful completion of the modules, learners must answer MCQs to complete the assessment procedure. Through the MCQs, it is measured how much a learner could grasp from each section. In the assessment pass mark is 60%.

Python Basics

• What Is Python Installation And First Execution
• Variables, Creating And Running External Script, Interactive Shell
• Comments
• Types Of Variables
• Math Operators
• Exercise: Adding VAT To Products
• Semicolon and ENTER – Assigning Multiple Values To Variables At Once
• Assignment Operators
• Playing With Strings (Slicing, Adding And Having Fun)

Functions and Libraries Basics

• Importing Libraries, What Are Functions – Basics
• ATTENTION – Important Lecture About Common Mistake Regarding Functions
• Taking Data From User And Type Conversion (Casting)

Conditional statements

• Comparison (Relational) Operators
• Instruction ‘if’ Why Indentation Is Important In Python | Do Not Skip!
• Exercise: Simple Calculator
• Values Different Than 0
• Logical Operators

Loops

• Loop While
• Exercise: Adding Numbers Taken From The User Exercise: Adding Numbers Taken From The User
• Loop For
• Instruction Break And Continue
• Exercise: Guess The Number

Lists

• What Are Lists Basic Operations On Lists
• Checking If Element Is ‘In’ Or ‘Not In’ The List
• Operating On Lists With Functions Bn

Advanced Types

• Tuples – What Does Immutable Mean
• Dictionaries
• Sets
• Operations On Sets
• Nested Types
• Processing Nested Types Using Loops
• Dictionary Inside Dictionary, Dictionary Inside List – When To Choose Which
• Extracting (Lterating Through) Values From Nested Dictionaries
• Exercise: Dynamic Dictionary With Definitions

Transformations

• List Comprehensions
• Generator Expressions
• Dictionary Comprehensions
• Set Comprehension
• Exercise: Finding Numbers That Are Divisible By 7, But Are Not Divisible By 5

Functions – Basics

• What Are Functions How To Create A Function Why Should We Use Functions
• Multiple Parameters In Function (Passing More Arguments)
• Returning Values From Function

Functions – Advanced

• Multi Module Application | How To Import Your Own Module
• enum – What It Is And Why You Should Use It
• EXERCISE: Sum Of All Numbers Up To The One Entered By User | IMPORTANT Lecture
• Measuring PERFORMANCE Of Code | How well (Fast) Some Part Of Code Work | Time
• Function As Argument Of Another Function | How To Measure Performance Of Func
• Default Arguments
• Named (keyword) And Unnamed (Positional) Arguments
• Exercise – Checking If Value Is In Container
• Variable Length Argument (Multiple Arguments Sent And Saved In Single Parameter)
• Local vs Global Variables – Scope – Lifetime Of Variables
• Mutable vs Immutable Objects
• Shallow vs Deep Copy Of Object
• Lambda | Anonymous functions – What Are They When Should You Use Them

Random Numbers

• Drawing Random Numbers – Creating A Program That Checks If You Hit The Monster
• Random Events – Choice vs Choices Function
• Shuffle – Shuffling Cards In ‘War’ Game
• EXERCISE: Drawing Elements Without REPETITION – Lottery Game – 6 Numbers From 49
• EXERCISE | GAME | Drawing Random Chests Colours With Random Rewards
• EXERCISE | GAME | Drawing Approximate Value To A Certain Value

Working With Files in Python and Exceptions

• What Is A File How To Create It Why Do We Need To CLOSE It How To Save Data
• Exceptions, Try, Finally Block
• Opening The File Using: With… As…:
• Reading The Content Of File – Read vs Readlines, Splitting Lines, Encoding
• Seek And Tell – Changing And Reading The Position Of Last Operation In File
• Append – Adding Text At The End Of File
• A+, R+, W+ – Two Function File Opening Modes
• Keyword Except – Catching Exceptions – EXERCISE – Loading Names And Surnames

JSON

• What Is JSON Why Do We Use It What Problems Does JSON Solve
• Creating And Saving Data From Python In JSON Format To File And String
• Loading Data From JSON File To Python
• Pretty Printer – Loading/Saving Pretty And Sorted JSON

pip and PyPi – using External Packages

• What Is Pip And PyPi Installing And Playing With External Package – Request
• Loading Data From Server From Json File – Preface To Next Exercise
• Processing JSON Data | Extracting Top Values From List Of Dictionaries
• SOLUTION 1: Retrieving A Few Users From Server At The Same Time
• SOLUTION 2: Retrieving A Few Users From Server At The Same Time
• SOLUTION 3: Retrieving A Few Users From Server At The Same Time
• Defaultdict Supplying Missing Values Of Dictionary When Accessing Empty Element

API

• What Is Public API Where To Find Them. stackoverflow API
• Getting JSON From Stackoverflow.com -> Getting Top Questions From Last Week
• Opening Websites From Python Code – Webbrowser Module
• Getting Records From Last Week – Datetime Module
• EXERCISE: Cat Facts
• EXERCISE: Random CAT Images By Breed
• Authorization – Log In Using API Key – Getting Holiday Calendar

API – header authorization – POST % DELETE

• Authorization Through Header – Settings
• EXERCISE: CAT System – Introduction
• POST – Adding A Cat To Favourite List
• DELETE – Removing A Cat From Favourite List

Visual Studio Code – Installation and Setting

• VSC – Downloading And Installing
• Setting Up The Workspace In VSC And Installing Basic Extensions
• Linter – What Is Linting – How To Use It, Settings In .Vscode
• Code Runner | Custom Shortcuts | Shortcuts From Other Editors, Interactive Shell
• Auto Save – Making Sure Your File Is Saved After Each Change
• Snippets And Pass Keyword
• Automatic Code Formatting
• Debugging Mode – How To Professionally Debug Your Code
• Ligatures – Custom Font Created Especially For Programmers – Fira Code

Visual Studio Code – Useful Extensions

• Icons Theme
• Bracket Pair Colorizer – Improving Readability Of Your Code
• Python Preview – Watching The Code Execution While Writing It
• Python Quick Print
• Code Spell Checker
• What Is Object Oriented Programming

OOP – Object Oriented Programming

• What Are Objects And Classes How To Create A Simple Object And Class.
• Creating Your First Method – What Is “Self”
• __Init__ – Sending Arguments To Class For Initialization
• EXERCISE: Create Rockets That Can Move Up
• Document String – Docstring
• __Str__ – Dunder Method Representing Text Of Object
• EXERCISE: Organizing More Than One Class – Rocket Board
• __Getitem__, __Setitem__ – Setting And Getting Values Using Dunder Methods
• EXERCISE: Counting Distance Between Rockets
• Is It Important To Understand Math That Was Used In The Last Lecture
• Static Methods
• Setting Type For Variables Using Annotations – Pyright Extension
• __Len__
• Class / Static Variables – Creating USER With Unique Ids
• EXERCISE: Bank Account – Withdraw/Deposit Money
• How To Properly Handle Returned Values From Methods
• Inheritance And Method Overriding – Super
• EXERCISE: Inheritance On Practical Example – Result
• EXERCISE: Playing With Cube, Square And Rectangle
• Inheritance Vs Association – When To Use Which

Generator functions

• Generator Functions – Yield Keyword
• EXERCISE: Generate Infinite Amount Of Numbers Multiplied By Themselves
• Send Method – How To Send A Value Into A Generator