Learn Python with projects covering game & web development, web scraping, MongoDB, Django, PyQt, and data visualization!
What you will learn
☑ Install Python on Windows, Linux and Mac
☑ Setup an IDE
☑ Use programming fundamentals to build a calculator
☑ Use advanced Python concepts to code a role playing game
☑ Find additional packages to expand the functionality of Python
☑ Install essential modules
☑ Code an app for web scraping
☑ Create a NoSQL database using PyMongo
☑ Create web apps using Webpy
☑ Django web server setup
☑ Program a web browser using PyQt
☑ Use Matplotlib and Pandas for data visualization
☑ Develop a speech recognition app using machine learning
Description
If you want to get started programming in Python, you are going to LOVE this course! This course is designed to fully immerse you in the Python language, so it is great for both beginners and veteran programmers! Learn Python as Nick takes you through the basics of programming, advanced Python concepts, coding a calculator, essential modules, creating a “Final Fantasy-esque” RPG battle script, web scraping, PyMongo, WebPy development, Django web framework, GUI programming, data visualization, machine learning, and much more!
We are grateful for the great feedback we have received!
“This course it great. Easy to follow and the examples show how powerful python can be for the beginner all the way to the advanced. Even if the RPG may not be your cup of tea it shows you the power of classes, for loops, and others!”
“Good course even for non-programmers too.”
“It’s really well explained, clear. Not too slow, not too fast.”
“Very thorough, quick pace. I’m learning A TON! Thank you :)”
“Good explanation, nice and easy to understand. Great audio and video quality. I have been trying to get into Python programming for some time; still a long way to go, but so far so good!”
The following topics are covered in this course:
- Programming Basics
- Python Fundamentals
- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- Web Scraping
- PyMongo (MongoDB)
- Web Development
- Django Web Framework
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) Programming (PyQt)
- Data Visualization
- Machine Learning
This course is fully subtitled in English!
Thank you for taking the time to read this and we hope to see you in the course!
English
Language
Content
Introduction to Programming with Python
Introduction to Python
Mac/Linux installation
Windows setup
Interpreted vs. compiled programming languages
Creating and running our first Python script
Choosing an integrated development environment (IDE)
How to share your code with us and get help with errors
Programming Basics
Basic types – numbers
Basic types – strings
Basic string manipulation
Basic types – Boolean operators
Lists (arrays)
Dictionaries
Variables
Built-in functions
User-defined functions
Adding arguments to a function
Default arguments
Keyword arguments
Infinite arguments
Return values from functions
If, elif, else statements
For/while loops
Importing libraries into a script
Project #1 – Building a calculator
Advanced Python Concepts
PEP guidelines
Breaking out of while loops
Continuing while loops
Classes & objects
Instance variables
Class & instance variables
How to add comments to your code
Importing modules from relative paths
Project #2 – RPG Battle Script
RPG setup
Creating our character
Additional utility classes
Enemy instantiation
Using magic
Turning our magic into a class
Healing our player
Adding items
Implementing different item types
Better HP view
Adding members to our party
Working HP bars
White space in HP & MP
Enemy HP bar
Multiple enemies pt.1
Multiple enemies pt.2
Enemy artificial intelligence
Additional Python Resources
Reading and writing files in Python
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
Using Virtualenv to create a virtual environment
The Python Package Index (PyPI)
Essential Modules – Requests
Introduction to Requests
HTTP GET variables
Pillow the image processing library (PIL)
Posting data
Posting JSON
Headers
Project #3 – Web Scraper
Beautiful Soup
Parsing our soup
Directional navigation
Image scraper
Improvements to our web scraper
Project #4 – Getting Started with PyMongo
Introduction and setup
Inserting documents
Bulk inserts
Counting documents
Multiple find conditions
Datetime and keywords
Indexes
Project #5 – Web Development Project Using Web.py
Introduction and simple example
HTML templates
Building a MVC
Importing static files
Setting up a register form
Posting data to web.py
Creating users
Hashing passwords
Login logic
Web.py sessions
Logout functionality
Posting microblogs
Retrieving post objects
User settings and updating Mongo
Relative datetimes
Making our post dates pretty
Adding post comments
Image uploads and avatars
Project #6 – Django Web Framework
Django project setup
Creating our blog app
Setting up the admin site
URLs and views
HTML templates
Dynamic template data
Single post page
Implementing Bootstrap
Static files
Template inheritance
Post images, multi-level templates, and more
Project #7 – GUI Programming with PyQt
Installation and 1st program
Declarative interfaces
Event handling in QML
Qt layouts, buttons, and labels
QLineEdit
QPushButton clicked
Setting QLabels text
Calculator project setup
QGridLayout
Programming buttons
Button event handling
Evaluating queries
Finishing touches
Project #8 – PyQt Web Browser
QTabWidget
Interacting with tabs
QWebEngine implementation
Switching tabs
Setting up our web address bar
Updating tab text
Updating tab icons
Back, forward, and reload functionality
Updating the address bar
Style sheets
Qt key shortcuts
QtSplitter and section wrap up
Project #9 – Data Visualization
Installing matplotlib
World population graph
Adding labels and custom line color
Multiple lines and line styling
Configuring the graph
Let’s make pie (charts)
Letting Pandas make data simpler
Using Panda’s data for pie charts
Bar charts pt.1
Bar charts pt.2
Bar charts pt.3
Custom legend
Project #10 – Speech Recognition & AI
Introduction to machine learning
Feedback sounds with PyAudio
Recognizing our speech
Making our program speak back
Parsing speech
Making our AI useful
Creating the illusion of consciousness
Speaking from it’s own brain
Getting more answers