15 exercises for experienced Python developers, on a variety of topics.
Launches on October 27th, 2020
Here’s what the advanced (B) level of Weekly Python Exercise covers
Each cohort of WPE covers different topics. But the overall goal is to get you to write more Pythonic, efficient, and easier-to-read code. Along the way, we'll cover:
- Unlocking the immense power of decorators – learn how and where to implement them
- Understanding threading and multiprocessing – and comparing the two of them
- Defining classes and object-oriented programming – finally getting them to “click” in your brain if you’ve been stumped until now
- How to use lambdas – and exactly why you would use them in certain situations
- Using functions and nested functions – optimize your programs to be more efficient, expressive, and easily maintainable
- The “collections” module – how “namedtuple”, “Counter”, and other classes can make your code shorter, more clear, and easier to maintain
- Implementing iterators, generators, and the “itertools” module – make your job––and others’––easier by understanding the most important protocol in Python
- Harnessing Python for consuming web services – automate the gathering of information from the Internet and use it in Python
- Storing and retrieving information with relational databases – discover how Python’s DB-API offers a consistent, database-neutral interface to these databases
- Using Python as a “glue” language – automate translating file formats, retrieving and publishing data with JSON, and executing external programs
Want to learn more about WPE?
Go to the main WPE page, where it's all explained in great detail — including how it works, and how you can see a sample.
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15 weeks to greater Python fluency. If you feel like you’ve only been scratching the surface of Python for a few months, a year, or even a few years, Weekly Python Exercise will get you deep under the surface with just an hour a week, on a variety of important and useful topics.