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Python Developer

Take Your Python Skills to the Next Level

Build upon your foundational Python knowledge and take your skills to new heights in this advanced Python Developer Track. Designed for those who have mastered the basics, this Track will equip you with the tools and techniques used by professional Python developers in their daily work.

Ensure Code Quality and Efficiency

Learn industry best practices for testing and optimizing your Python code. You'll discover how to:
  • Write comprehensive test suites using pytest to catch bugs early
  • Profile and optimize your code for maximum performance
  • Organize your code into reusable packages for easy distribution and maintenance

Master Version Control with Git

Collaborate with confidence by leveraging Git, the most widely used version control system. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to create and manage repositories, work with branches and remote repositories, resolve merge conflicts, and revert changes. Additionally, you'll gain experience contributing to open-source projects, ensuring seamless teamwork and efficient version control in real-world development environments.

Extract Valuable Data with Web Scraping

Unlock a wealth of data by learning to scrape websites using Python. You'll gain the skills to:
  • Navigate and parse HTML and XML documents
  • Extract data from APIs and dynamically-generated pages
  • Handle authentication and sessions
  • Store scraped data in databases for further analysis

Explore Advanced Python Concepts

Deepen your understanding of Python’s object-oriented programming features while exploring essential data structures and algorithms. You'll work with descriptors, multilevel inheritance, and abstract base classes to build more flexible and maintainable code. Additionally, you'll dive into fundamental data structures such as linked lists, stacks, queues, and hash tables, along with key searching and sorting algorithms. This section also covers time and space complexity analysis, equipping you with the skills to write efficient and optimized Python programs.

Become a Well-Rounded Python Developer

This Track is your launchpad to tackle complex software projects and contribute to the Python ecosystem. By combining efficient coding practices, collaborative workflows, and specialized skills like web scraping, you'll be prepared to excel in a variety of Python development roles.Join the ranks of professional Python developers and take your career to new heights. Enroll now and start your journey towards mastery!

Prerequisites

Associate Python Developer
  • Chapter

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    Foundations for efficiencies

    In this chapter, you'll learn what it means to write efficient Python code. You'll explore Python's Standard Library, learn about NumPy arrays, and practice using some of Python's built-in tools. This chapter builds a foundation for the concepts covered ahead.

  • Chapter

    In this chapter, you will learn how to gather and compare runtimes between different coding approaches. You'll practice using the line_profiler and memory_profiler packages to profile your code base and spot bottlenecks. Then, you'll put your learnings to practice by replacing these bottlenecks with efficient Python code.

  • Chapter

    This chapter covers more complex efficiency tips and tricks. You'll learn a few useful built-in modules for writing efficient code and practice using set theory. You'll then learn about looping patterns in Python and how to make them more efficient.

  • Course

    4

    Introduction to Git

    Discover the fundamentals of Git for version control in your software and data projects.

  • Course

    Discover branches and remote repos for version control in collaborative software and data projects using Git!

  • Course

    Learn to retrieve and parse information from the internet using the Python library scrapy.

  • Course

    10

    Data Structures and Algorithms in Python

    Explore data structures such as linked lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, and graphs; and search and sort algorithms!

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