Course Overviews

With our courses you will learn Python programming through hands-on, interesting examples that are useful and fun! Launch your development career with a proven program, written by Python professionals.

Course 1: Introduction to Python

Who should take this course?

Those new to…

1. Programming in general
2. Python Programming

What will you learn?

The first half of the Introduction to Python is a quick yet thorough overview of all the Python basics (Python 3.6). You do not need any prior experience with programming to get started. The second half, meanwhile, is focused on solving interesting, real-world problems in a practical manner.

Chapter Summary

1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
3. Interlude: Leave yourself helpful notes
4. Fundamentals: Strings and Methods
5. Fundamentals: Working with Strings
6. Fundamentals: Functions and Loops
7. Interlude: Debug your code
8. Fundamentals: Conditional logic
9. Fundamentals: Lists and Dictionaries
10. File Input and Output
11. Interlude: Install Packages
12. Interact with PDF files
13. SQL database connections
14. Interacting with the web
15. Scientific computing and graphing
16. Graphical User Interface
17. Final Thoughts
18. Appendix A: Installing Python
19. Appendix B: Regular Expressions
20. Appendix C: Primer on Object-Oriented Programming in Python
21. Acknowledgments

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Course 2: Web Development with Python

Who should take this course?

Those who have…

1. Taken the first Real Python course
2. Some experience with Python web development

What will you learn?

Web Development with Python teaches you how to build web sites and applications quickly and efficiently using Python. You will learn everything from the basic fundamentals of web development to web scraping to advanced web frameworks like Flask, web2py, and Django.

Chapter Summary

1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
3. Interlude: Modern Web Development
4. Flask: Quick Start
5. Interlude: Database Programming
6. Flask Blog App
7. Interlude: Debugging in Python
8. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 1 - Quick Start
9. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 2 - SQLAlchemy and User Management
10. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 3 - Error Handling and Testing
11. Interlude: Introduction to HTML and CSS
12. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 4 - Styles, Test Coverage, and Permissions
13. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 5 - Blueprints
14. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 6 - New features and Error Handling
15. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 7 - Deployment
16. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 8 - RESTful API
17. Interlude: Flask Boilerplate Template and Workflow
18. Flask: FlaskTaskr, Part 9 - Continuous Integration and Delivery
19. Flask: Behavior-Driven Development with Behave
20. Interlude: Web Frameworks, Compared
21. web2py: QuickStart
22. Interlude: APIs
23. web2py: Sentiment Analysis
24. web2py: py2manager
25. Interlude: Web Scraping and Crawling
26. web2py: REST Redux
27. Django: Quick Start
28. Interlude: Introduction to Javascript and jQuery
29. Bloggy: A blog app (part one)
30. Bloggy: A blog app (part two)
31. Django Workflow
32. Bloggy Redux: Introducing Blongo
33. Django: Ecommerce Site
34. Appendix A: Installing Python
35. Appendix B: Supplementary Materials
36. Acknowledgements

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Course 3: Advanced Web Development with Django

Who should take this course?

Those who have…

1. Taken the second Real Python course
2. Professional Python web development experience

What will you learn?

Advanced Web Development with Django is a practical, real-world guide to Django that’s much more than just a series of Python tutorials.

Through the development of a fully functional and useful product (an eCommerce site) you’ll learn test driven development, how to write maintainable code, efficient Git branching, and much more, all while focusing on the software engineering practices that go into developing great software.

Chapter Summary

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Software Craftsmanship
4. Test Driven Development
5. Git Branching at a Glance
6. Upgrade, Upgrade, and Upgrade some more
7. Graceful Degradation and Database Transactions with Django
8. Building a Membership Site
9. Bootstrap 3 and Best Effort Design
10. Building the Members Page
11. REST
12. Django Migrations
13. AngularJS Primer
14. Djangular: Integrating Django and Angular
15. Angular Forms
16. MongoDB Time!
17. One Admin to Rule Them All
18. Testing, Testing, and More Testing
19. Deploy
20. Conclusion
21. Appendix A - Solutions to Exercises

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