Next Level Python

While Python is a great beginner language, you will need to know more than conditionals, functions, and loops to be a competent Python developer. This video lesson is meant as a follow-up to Arianne’s Introduction to Python LiveLessons course. In it, you will learn essential skills to become a proper Python developer, like using external libraries, managing project environments, handling exceptions, and making HTTP requests. By the end of this lesson, you will have created a web scraper in Python that gathers data from a website and outputs it into a CSV formatted file. You will also be introduced to key software construction concepts like testing, debugging, and refactoring.

Description

Python was originally designed with learners in mind. It is also used by professional developers in a wide range of applications, such as web programming, data science, artificial intelligence, and DevOps. Python is the fastest growing, most widely used language, and aspiring developers want to learn.

While Python is a great beginner language, you need to know more than conditionals, functions, and loops to be a competent Python developer. This video lesson is meant as a follow up to Arianne’s Introduction to Python LiveLessons course.

In this LiveLessons, you learn essential skills to become a proper Python developer, such as using external libraries, managing project environments, handling exceptions, and making HTTP requests. By the end of the lessons, you will have created a web scraper in Python that gathers data from a website and outputs it into a CSV formatted file. Along the way, you will also be introduced to key software construction concepts like testing, debugging, and refactoring.

The source code repository for this LiveLesson is kept at https://github.com/ariannedee/next-level-python-livelessons

Skill Level

Beginning to Intermediate

What You Will Learn

While Python is a great beginner language, you will need to know more than conditionals, functions, and loops to be a competent Python developer.
You will learn essential skills to become a proper Python developer, like using external libraries, managing project environments, handling exceptions, and making HTTP requests.
You will have created a web scraper in Python that gathers data from a website and outputs it into a CSV formatted file.
You will be introduced to key software construction concepts like testing, debugging, and refactoring.

Who Should Take This Course

Software developers, programmers, web developers

Course Requirements

Prerequisites:

Some experience coding in Python 3
Basic understanding of the following concepts in Python: types, functions, conditionals, lists, while loops, and for loops