The Complete Python Programming Course: Beginner to Advanced

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Programming with Python

Lecture 1: Introduction to Python

Lecture 2: Mac/Linux installation

Lecture 3: Windows setup

Lecture 4: Interpreted vs. compiled programming languages

Lecture 5: Creating and running our first Python script

Lecture 6: Choosing an integrated development environment (IDE)

Lecture 7: How to share your code with us and get help with errors

Chapter 2: Programming Basics

Lecture 1: Basic types – numbers

Lecture 2: Basic types – strings

Lecture 3: Basic string manipulation

Lecture 4: Basic types – Boolean operators

Lecture 5: Lists (arrays)

Lecture 6: Dictionaries

Lecture 7: Variables

Lecture 8: Built-in functions

Lecture 9: User-defined functions

Lecture 10: Adding arguments to a function

Lecture 11: Default arguments

Lecture 12: Keyword arguments

Lecture 13: Infinite arguments

Lecture 14: Return values from functions

Lecture 15: If, elif, else statements

Lecture 16: For/while loops

Lecture 17: Importing libraries into a script

Lecture 18: Project #1 – Building a calculator

Chapter 3: Advanced Python Concepts

Lecture 1: PEP guidelines

Lecture 2: Breaking out of while loops

Lecture 3: Continuing while loops

Lecture 4: Classes & objects

Lecture 5: Instance variables

Lecture 6: Class & instance variables

Lecture 7: How to add comments to your code

Lecture 8: Importing modules from relative paths

Chapter 4: Project #2 – RPG Battle Script

Lecture 1: RPG setup

Lecture 2: Creating our character

Lecture 3: Additional utility classes

Lecture 4: Enemy instantiation

Lecture 5: Using magic

Lecture 6: Turning our magic into a class

Lecture 7: Healing our player

Lecture 8: Adding items

Lecture 9: Implementing different item types

Lecture 10: Better HP view

Lecture 11: Adding members to our party

Lecture 12: Working HP bars

Lecture 13: White space in HP & MP

Lecture 14: Enemy HP bar

Lecture 15: Multiple enemies pt.1

Lecture 16: Multiple enemies pt.2

Lecture 17: Enemy artificial intelligence

Chapter 5: Additional Python Resources

Lecture 1: Reading and writing files in Python

Lecture 2: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Lecture 3: Using Virtualenv to create a virtual environment

Lecture 4: The Python Package Index (PyPI)

Chapter 6: Essential Modules – Requests

Lecture 1: Introduction to Requests

Lecture 2: HTTP GET variables

Lecture 3: Pillow the image processing library (PIL)

Lecture 4: Posting data

Lecture 5: Posting JSON

Lecture 6: Headers

Chapter 7: Project #3 – Web Scraper

Lecture 1: Beautiful Soup

Lecture 2: Parsing our soup

Lecture 3: Directional navigation

Lecture 4: Image scraper

Lecture 5: Improvements to our web scraper

Chapter 8: Project #4 – Getting Started with PyMongo

Lecture 1: Introduction and setup

Lecture 2: Inserting documents

Lecture 3: Bulk inserts

Lecture 4: Counting documents

Lecture 5: Multiple find conditions

Lecture 6: Datetime and keywords

Lecture 7: Indexes

Chapter 9: Project #5 – Web Development Project Using Web.py

Lecture 1: Introduction and simple example

Lecture 2: HTML templates

Lecture 3: Building a MVC

Lecture 4: Importing static files

Lecture 5: Setting up a register form

Lecture 6: Posting data to web.py

Lecture 7: Creating users

Lecture 8: Hashing passwords

Lecture 9: Login logic

Lecture 10: Web.py sessions

Lecture 11: Logout functionality

Lecture 12: Posting microblogs

Lecture 13: Retrieving post objects

Lecture 14: User settings and updating Mongo

Lecture 15: Relative datetimes

Lecture 16: Making our post dates pretty

Lecture 17: Adding post comments

Lecture 18: Image uploads and avatars