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Intermediate Python Programming

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Course Features

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Duration

2.56 hours

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Delivery Method

Online

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Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

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Video Content

2.56 hours

Course Description

What does Python software programming have to do with Scrabble cheaters and Shakespearean sonnets? They're fun tools to teach intermediate-level Python programming techniques to Jessica McKellar, a software impresario. She was an organizer for the Boston Python User Group, one of the largest Python groups in the world. She taught hundreds of Python programmers how to program like professionals during her time there. In this follow-up to her popular Introduction to Python video, she uses that experience to benefit the next generation.

DropBox's Director of Engineering is Jessica McKellar. She is a graduate of MIT and enjoys networking and low-level systems engineering. She also enjoys contributing to and helping others contribute to open-source software. She is a Python Twisted maintainer, and a local STEM volunteer.

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What You Will Learn

Review data structures like lists, dictionaries, and sets; and when to best use them

Discover list comprehensions, a conceptual technique for constructing lists in an easy way

Analyze code performance using tools like profiling, code timing, and Big O notation

Understand why refractoring code can make it more testable

Learn best practices for scripting and documentation

Practice the smart ways to navigate an existing codebase

Search for, replace, and parse text using regular expressions and the re module

Understand single threaded programs, threading primitives, and multi-threaded programs

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Jessica McKellar

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Jessica McKellar is the instructor for this course

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