The Complete Python Programming Course: Beginner to Advanced

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Programming with Python
   1. Introduction to Python
   2. Mac/Linux installation
   3. Windows setup
   4. Interpreted vs. compiled programming languages
   5. Creating and running our first Python script
   6. Choosing an integrated development environment (IDE)
2. Programming Basics
   1. Basic types - numbers
   2. Basic types - strings
   3. Basic string manipulation
   4. Basic types - Boolean operators
   5. Lists (arrays)
   6. Dictionaries
   7. Variables
   8. Built-in functions
   9. User-defined functions
   10. Adding arguments to a function
   11. Default arguments
   12. Keyword arguments
   13. Infinite arguments
   14. Return values from functions
   15. If, elif, else statements
   16. For/while loops
   17. Importing libraries into a script
   18. Project #1 - Building a calculator
3. Advanced Python Concepts
   1. PEP guidelines
   2. Breaking out of while loops
   3. Continuing while loops
   4. Classes and objects
   5. Instance variables
   6. Class and instance variables
   7. How to add comments to your code
   8. Importing modules from relative paths
4. Project #2 - RPG Battle Script
   1. RPG setup
   2. Creating our character
   3. Additional utility classes
   4. Enemy instantiation
   5. Using magic
   6. Turning our magic into a class
   7. Healing our player
   8. Adding items
   9. Implementing different item types
   10. Better HP view
   11. Adding members to our party
   12. Working HP bars
   13. White space in HP and MP
   14. Enemy HP bar
   15. Multiple enemies - Part 1
   16. Multiple enemies - Part 2
   17. Enemy artificial intelligence
5. Additional Python Resources
   1. Reading and writing files in Python
   2. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
   3. Using Virtualenv to create a virtual environment
   4. The Python Package Index (PyPI)
6. Essential Modules - Requests
   1. Introduction to Requests
   2. HTTP GET variables
   3. Pillow the image processing library (PIL)
   4. Posting data
   5. Posting JSON
   6. Headers
7. Project #3 - Web Scraper
   1. Beautiful Soup
   2. Parsing our soup
   3. Directional navigation
   4. Image scraper
   5. Improvements to our web scraper
8. Project #4 - Getting Started with PyMongo
   1. Introduction and setup
   2. Inserting documents
   3. Bulk inserts
   4. Counting documents
   5. Multiple find conditions
   6. Datetime and keywords
   7. Indexes
9. Project #5 - Web Development Project Using Web.py
   1. Introduction and simple example
   2. HTML templates
   3. Building a MVC
   4. Importing static files
   5. Setting up a register form
   6. Posting data to web.py
   7. Creating users
   8. Hashing passwords
   9. Login logic
   10. Web.py sessions
   11. Logout functionality
   12. Posting microblogs
   13. Retrieving post objects
   14. User settings and updating Mongo
   15. Relative datetimes
   16. Making our post dates pretty
   17. Adding post comments
   18. Image uploads and avatars
10. Project #6 - Django Web Framework
    1. Django project setup
    2. Creating our blog app
    3. Setting up the admin site
    4. URLs and views
    5. HTML templates
    6. Dynamic template data
    7. Single post page
    8. Implementing Bootstrap
    9. Static files
    10. Template inheritance
    11. Post images, multi-level templates, and more
11. Project #7 - GUI Programming with PyQt
    1. Installation and 1st program
    2. Declarative interfaces
    3. Event handling in QML
    4. Qt layouts, buttons, and labels
    5. QLineEdit
    6. QPushButton clicked
    7. Setting QLabels text
    8. Calculator project setup
    9. QGridLayout
    10. Programming buttons
    11. Button event handling
    12. Evaluating queries
    13. Finishing touches
12. Project #8 - PyQt Web Browser
    1. QTabWidget
    2. Interacting with tabs
    3. QWebEngine implementation
    4. Switching tabs
    5. Setting up our web address bar
    6. Updating tab text
    7. Updating tab icons
    8. Back, forward, and reload functionality
    9. Updating the address bar
    10. Style sheets
    11. Qt key shortcuts
    12. QtSplitter and section wrap up
13. Project #9 - Data Visualization
    1. Installing matplotlib
    2. World population graph
    3. Adding labels and custom line color
    4. Multiple lines and line styling
    5. Configuring the graph
    6. Let’s make pie (charts)
    7. Letting Pandas make data simpler
    8. Using Panda’s data for pie charts
    9. Bar charts - Part 1
    10. Bar charts - Part 2
    11. Bar charts - Part 3
    12. Custom legend
14. Project #10 - Speech Recognition and AI
    1. Introduction to machine learning
    2. Feedback sounds with PyAudio
    3. Recognizing our speech
    4. Making our program speak back
    5. Parsing speech
    6. Making our AI useful
    7. Creating the illusion of consciousness
    8. Speaking from its own brain
    9. Getting more answers