Advanced Python
3 days
Goals
- Take your Python skills to the next level
- Learn about the new and exciting features of Python 3.9
Prerequisites
- Python 3 on Windows, Linux or mac
- A working python installation
Audience
Developers, QA & DevOps with previous programming experience
Course Content
- Object Oriented Python
- TDD & BDD with python. Using pytest & pytest.BDD
- Creating web services (Flask, FastAPI, jinja2)
- Functional programming using comprehensions & lambdas, Iterators and generators, itertools
- Asynchronous python - Threads and multiprocessing, async/await
- Python and the cloud. AWS S3, firebase & google storage
- Intro to Data Science: Jupyter, numpy and pandas. Matplotlib
- Overview of Machine Learning with PyTorch. The basic ML workflow
- Working with databases (using sqlite, ORMs, mongodb)
- Embedded Python - Python on arduino & raspberry pi (ESP-32 / raspberry pi/zero/pico)
- Building extensions to python (SWIG)
- Building larger python projects (pyinstaller, packages, docker)
- Web scraping using BeautifulSoup & MechanicalSoup
- Creating desktop apps using TkInter, PyQT
- Advanced scripting (interfacing with the OS, task management, system monitoring, command-line arguments...)
