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Dive into the world of Python with a course designed to take you from a beginner to an advanced user. Start by understanding what Python is, its compilation and interpretation process, and how to install it on both Windows and Mac systems. Learn to use VS Code for your Python projects, ensuring you have a solid foundation to build upon. Next, you'll explore essential Python concepts such as variables, data types, lists, loops, and dictionaries. You'll engage in hands-on projects that solidify your understanding, including creating a quiz game and a travel itinerary program. As you progress, you'll delve into more complex topics like functions, object-oriented programming (OOP), and file handling. You'll create practical applications, such as a file organizer program and an image watermarker tool. The course culminates with advanced projects in web development using the Django framework and AI applications using the OpenAI API. You'll build a book tracker web app, learn to consume online data, plot graphs, and develop an AI-based task breakdown tool. By the end of the course, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of Python and the confidence to tackle real-world projects.

Introduction

Course Overview

Introduction

What is Python and Where It's Used

Python Compilation & Interpretation Process

Bookly Nest Demo - Building a Django Web App

Install Python on Windows and Mac

Windows Users ONLY: Install Python on Windows

Mac Users ONLY: Install Python on Mac

Download and Install VS Code

Install Python VS Code Extension Pack

Running Our First Python Program in VS Code

Python Variables and Simple Data Types

Declaring Variables in Python

Data Types - String

Python f-Strings

Numbers - Integers and Floats

Introduction to Data Structures in Python - Lists

Introduction to Lists - Accessing and Modifying Them

f-Strings & Individual Values from a List

Sorting a List and Getting a List Length

Lists - Loops and Tuples

Lists and Loops - Looping Through a List

Making a List of Numbers with Loops and the Range Function

Statistics Functions for Numbers

Generate Even Numbers with the List and Range

Important: Code Organization Note

List Comprehension

Tuples

Branching - If Statements

If Statements and Booleans

The Elif and the in Keywords

Hands-on - Using AND and OR Logical Operators

AND OR Logical Operators

Checking for Inequalities

Hands-on - Inner If-Statements

Data Structure - Dictionaries

Introduction to Dictionaries - Declaring and Accessing Values

Modifying a Dictionary

Iterating Through a Dictionary

Nested Dictionaries and Looping Through Them

Looping through a Dictionary with a List Inside

User Input and While Loops

User Input - Introduction

Hands-on - Odd or Even Number

While Loops & Simple Quit Program

Hands-on - Quiz Game

Removing all Instances of Specific Values from a List

Hands-on - Dream Travel Itinerary Program - Filling a Dictionary with User Input

Functions

Passing Information to a Function (Parameters)

Positional and Named Arguments

Default Values - Parameters

Return Values from a Function

Hands-on - Returning an Integer & Intro to Docstring

Returning a Dictionary from a Function

Functions - Passing a List as Argument

Passing an Arbitrary Number of Arguments to a Function

Introduction to Modules - Importing Specific Functions from a Module

Using the "as" as an Alias

Classes and OOP - Object Oriented Programming

Introduction to OOP in Python - Creating a Class and Instantiating an Object

The "init" and "str" Methods

Adding More Methods to the Class

Setting a Default Value for an Attribute

Modifying Class Attribute - Directly and with Methods

Inheritance - Create an Ebook - Child Class

Overriding Methods

Creating and Importing From a Module

The Object Class - Overview

The Python Standard Library

Random Module - Random Fruit Hands-on

Hands-on - Random Fruit with Choice Module Method

Using Datetime Module

Writing & Reading Files - Do Useful Tasks with Python

Do Amazing Things with Python

The Path Class & Reading a Text File

Resolving Path - Reading From a Subdirectory with Path

Path Properties Overview

Writing to Text File with Path

Read and Write to File Using the "with" Keyword

Handling Exceptions

The "FileNotFound" and "IndexError" Exception Types

Custom Exception Creation and Handling

JSON - Reading and Writing to a JSON File

Hands-On - Writing and Reading - Countries to JSON File

Hands-On - Build a File Organizer Program

File Organizer Program

Python Virtual Environment and PIP

Virtual Environment in Python - Overview

Setting up Virtual Environment and Installing a Package

Hands-on - Image Watermarker Tool

Watermarker Python Tool

Building an Image Watermarker in Python - Part 1

Generating the Watermarked Images

Consuming Online Data - APIs and Online Files and Data sources

Consuming a JSON API

GET and POST Methods

Hands-On - Book Search with the Google Books API - Part 1

Hands-On - Book Search - Add User Input & Search Term

Hands-on - Book Search - Showing Book Pagination

Plotting Graphs in Python

Using Matlibplot Library to Plot Data in a Graph

Adding Labels to Graph and Changing Plot Style

Changing Graph Style Randomly

Hands-on - Expense Tracker with Visualization

Reading a CSV File - Introduction

Getting the CSV Header Position - Column's Index

Reading Data From a CSV Column

Plotting a Graph with CSV Data

Python & AI (OpenAI API) & Streamlit - Build a Task Breakdown Tool

Task Breakdown Demo

Python and AI - Building AI-based Applications

Getting the OpenAI API Key

Setting up OpenAI API Key and Overview

OpenAI API - ChatCompletion and Prompts - Introduction

Setting up the Prompt for the Task Breakdown App - Part-1

Adding User Input - Console-Based Program

Adding a User Interface with Streamlit Framework

Web Development with the Django Framework - Build a Book Tracker Web App

The Django Framework - Introduction and Overview

Creating a Django project & Project Files Overview

Creating a Database and Running Our web App

Defining Models and Running Migrations

Setting up a Super User and Registering a Model with the Admin Site

Defining Models and Running Migrations

The Django Shell - Looking at Saved Data

Mapping URLs and Creating a View and Showing on the Browser

Modifying our Template and Showing Books

Installing VS Code Extension for Django Templates

Create a Base Django HTML Template

The URL Template Tag

Show All Genres on the Genre Page

Adding a Genre URL Template Tag to Base HTML

Showing All Books Related to a Specific Genre

Updating the Genre Template and Adding URL Navigation to Base HTML

Web Development with the Django Framework - Accounts, Adding Books and Genres

Adding a Form to Add a Genre

Adding a Form to Enter a New Book

Editing a Book Entry and Saving the Changes

Adding User Authentication and Login

Log Users Out

Web Development with the Django Framework - Restricting Access to Pages

Restricting Access to Pages

Connecting Data to Specific User

Deleting a Book - Abrupt Solution

Deleting a Book The Right Way with a Warning

Web Development with the Django Framework - Styling the Web App

Adding Bootstrap to Our Django Application

Styling the Index and Login Pages

Styling the Genres Template

Finalize Styling All Templates with Bootstrap5

Web Development with the Django Framework - Deploying the Web App to Heroku

Setting up Git, Heroku and the Heroku CLI

Setting up Our Project for Development - Part 1

Deploying to Heroku - Web App Live!

Wrap Up

Next Steps

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