Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps

Programming is fun and profitable. Learning to become a software developer should be equally fun! This course will teach you everything you need to know about the Python language all the while building interesting and engaging applications.

Source code and course github repository github.com/mikeckennedy/python-jumpstart-course-demos

The goal of this online video course is to teach you the Python programming language.

It assumes you have just a small amount of programming experience (e.g. you know what a variable, a function, and a loop are in some language). But otherwise, it is a from the ground up, comprehensive introduction to the Python programming language.

Most courses focus on teaching you hundreds of details and leave putting them together as an exercise for the student. My course is different.

You will learn all the basics, yes. But you will learn them while building 10 stand alone applications. You will see each application built from the ground up in live demos. When we hit new topics (functions for example), we will pause, discuss them, and return to our application we are building.

This way you will continuously be “putting the pieces together”. You don’t have to wade through many small details before making sense of Python. It starts right from the beginning and grows from there.

This course is based upon Python 3. With Python 2 going unsupported in 2020, we believe that it would be ill-advised to teach or learn Python 2.

We will build the following apps, which among many other things, focus on the language concepts listed under them.

Hello world
– test your environment
Guess that number
– user input
– conditionals
– string parsing
Birthday app
– dates and times
Personal journal
– text-based file i/o
Weather client
– external packages
– pip
– screen scraping
– HTTP clients
LOLCat Factory
– binary files on the internet
Wizard battle
– classes
– inheritance
– magic methods
File searcher app
lambda expressions
generator methods
yield and yield from
Real estate analyzer
– file formats
– list comprehensions
– generators expressions
Movie lookup app
– error handling
– exceptions
– Advanced HTTP clients