Otavio

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Otávio Silveira

Data Analyst @ Hortifruti

Course overview

Web development with Python has made it easier to create dynamic websites. This course focuses on intermediate Python skills needed for web development.

Throughout the course, you’ll dive into object-oriented programming tailored for web applications, grasp the fundamentals of decorators, and harness the power of regular expressions. Elevate the functionality and efficiency of your web projects, and confidently tackle user input errors and typical web-related challenges.

Most importantly, you’ll learn by doing — practicing and receiving feedback directly in the browser. By the end, you’ll be better equipped to take on advanced web development tasks with Python.

Key skills

  • Use object-oriented programming (OOP)
  • Create and use decorators
  • Write regular expressions (regex)
  • Incorporate error handling for user input validation

Course outline

Intermediate Python for Web Development [5 lessons]

Basic Object Oriented Programming in Python 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define object-oriented programming
  • Define classes, instances, attributes, and methods
  • Create your own class

Intermediate Object Oriented Programming 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Understand the concepts of inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation
  • Customize subclass attributes and use the super() function to override inherited methods
  • Apply polymorphism to design parent class and subclass methods that can take multiple forms
  • Implement private methods, getters, and setters to protect and manage object state in Python classes

Decorators 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Understand and implement decorators
  • Use "syntactic sugar" to decorate functions
  • Apply *args and **kwargs to functions and wrappers
  • Use the functools library to preserve function information when decorating functions

Introduction to Regular Expressions and Error Handling 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Recognize the role of regular expressions in programming
  • Write simple regex patterns
  • Raise and handle errors and exceptions
  • Use the Python `re` library

Guided Project: Garden Simulator Text-Based Game 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Create custom classes that interact with each other
  • Implement error handling to account for user input
  • Practice debugging a program

Projects in this course

Guided Project: Garden Simulator Text-Based Game

Create a gardening game. From foraging seeds to nurturing plants and selling the produce, every action in the game is an opportunity to practice Python concepts such as Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and error handling.

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