
Python Mastery: Interactive Coding Adventure for Beginners
Ready to level up your Python skills?
Congratulations on completing Level 1, where you built your first guessing game and mastered the absolute basics of coding! Now, prepare to embark on the next exciting chapter of your "Interactive Coding Adventure" with Python Mastery: Interactive Coding Adventure for Beginners (Level 2).
In this transformative course, we're taking your foundational Python knowledge to the next level. Our core objective is to introduce you to more advanced programming structures that will empower you to develop practical utility applications. Unlike the fun but simple guessing game, the app you'll build here can be used in your daily life, showcasing the true power of your coding skills!
What to Expect:
- You'll dive into the secrets of organizing information efficiently with powerful Python tools like Lists and Dictionaries.
- Discover how to write cleaner, more organized, and reusable code by mastering Functions.
- Plus, you'll learn the magic of saving and loading data from files, making your programs "remember" information even after they are closed.
By the end of this adventure, you'll have built your very own fully functional Simple To-Do List Application, a real-world tool you can use every day.
Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 41 Lessons
- 5 Quizzes
- 20h 45m Duration
Strengthening Our Foundation
- Welcome to Python Mastery!
- Introduction
- Variables and Data Types
- Data Type Conversion
- Operators: Doing Things with Our Data
- Organizing Information Using Lists (Creating Collections)
- Looping Through Lists (Doing Something with Each Item)
- Finding Items in a List
- List Comprehensions: Magical List Making
- Nested Lists
- More Ways to Organize – Dictionaries (Key-Value Pairs)
- Nested Dictionaries
- Dictionary Key Restrictions
- Python Mastery: Module 1 Quiz
Writing Reusable Code – Functions
- Introduction
- What are Functions?
- Passing Arguments to Functions
- Returning Values from Functions
- Built-in Functions in Python
- How to Get Help with Built-in Functions
- Python Mastery: Module 2 Quiz
Handling Errors in Python – When Things Go Wrong
- Introduction
- Understanding Errors and Exceptions
- Using try/except Blocks
- Practical Error Handling
- Error Handling with Dictionaries
- Python Mastery: Module 3 Quiz
Python Environment Management – Setting Up Your Workspace
- Introduction
- Understanding Python Environments
- Virtual Environments
- Package Management with pip
- Best Practices
- Python Mastery: Module 4 Quiz
Building a Practical App – A Simple To-Do List Application
- Introduction
- Project Introduction – The To-Do List Challenge
- Using Lists to Store Tasks
- Adding Tasks
- Viewing Tasks
- Marking Tasks as Done
- Removing Tasks from the List
- The Main Program Loop (Keeping the App Running)
- Saving and Loading Tasks (Persisting Data)
- Deploying Your App (Sharing Your App)
Conclusion
- Recap
- What's Next in Your Coding Quest?
- Python Mastery: Final Assessment