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Fundamentals of Python

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Course curriculum

1. Resources
2. Segment 00 : Downloading All Course Material
3. Segment 1 : Downloading Module 1 Content
4. Segment 2 : Exploring the Course Material
5. Segment 3 : Launching the Material with Jupyter Notebooks
6. Segment 5 : Getting started with the Modules
7. Segment 6 : Arithmetic Operators
8. Segment 7 : More Arithmetic Operators
9. Segment 8 : Change Operator Precedence with Parentheses
10. Segment 9 : Comparison Operators
11. Segment 10 : Comparison and Arithmetic Operators Together
12. Segment 11 : Chained Comparison Operators
13. Segment 12 : Unary Plus and Minus Operators
14. Segment 13 : Boolean Operators
15. Segment 14 : Multiple Arithmetic Operators
16. Segment 15 : The or Operator
17. Segment 16 : The not Operator
18. Segment 17 : Combining Boolean and Other Operators
19. Segment 18 : Assigning Values to Variable Names
20. Segment 19 : Multiple Variables
21. Segment 20 : Python Comments
22. Segment 21 :Augmented Assignment Statements
23. Segment 22 : Other Operators
24. Segment 23 : Open Project Notebook
25. Segment 24 : Project Solutions
1. Segment 25 : Preparing for Module 2
2. Segment 26 : Exploring the Contents of Module 2
3. Segment 27 : Downloading Module 2 Content
4. Segment 28 : What is Python
5. Segment 29 : What is a Computer Programming Language
6. Segment 30 : Programming Language Implementations
7. Segment 31 : A Specific Example of Different Implementations
8. Segment 32 : Language Specification
9. Segment 33 : Python Implementations
10. Segment 34 : Python Syntax
11. Segment 35 : Components of the Python Programming Language
12. Segment 36 : Whitespace and Indentation
13. Segment 37 : Long lines of code
14. Segment 38 : Python is an Interactive Language
15. Segment 39 : Running Entire Python Programs
16. Segment 40 : Why use Python
17. Segment 41 : Module 2 Project
1. Segment 42 : Exploring Module 3 Contents
2. Segment 42 : Objects in the Real World
3. Segment 43 : An Introduction to Types in Python
4. Segment 44 : Writing Integers
5. Segment 45 : The Boolean Type
6. Segment 46 : The Complex Type
7. Segment 47 : The Float Type
8. Segment 48 : The None Object
9. Segment 49 : Passing Variables to the type Function
10. Segment 50 : Object Identity
11. Segment 51 : Dynamic Typing
12. Segment 52 : Built-in Types
13. Segment 53 : Object Attributes and Methods
14. Segment 54 : Accessing Attributes and Methods with Dot Notation
15. Segment 55 : What isn't an Object
16. Segment 56 : Summary
17. Segment 57 : Module 3 Project
1. Segment 58 : Exploring Module 4 Contents
2. Segment 59 : Introduction to Strings
3. Segment 61 : Strings Containing Quotes
4. Segment 62 : Strings with Escape Characters
5. Segment 63 : Empty Strings
6. Segment 64 : Unicode
7. Segment 65 : Operators with Strings
8. Segment 66 : Method Chaining
9. Segment 67 : Find the Length of a String
10. Segment 68 : String Interpolation
11. Segment 69 : Selecting Substrings
12. Segment 70 : Selecting Substrings with Slice Notation
13. Segment 71 : Changing the Characters of a String
14. Segment 72 : Testing for a Substring
15. Segment 73 : Methods
16. Segment 74 : String Summary
17. Segment 75 : Module 4 Project
1. Segment 76 : Introduction to Lists
2. Segment 77 : Brackets have a New Meaning
3. Segment 78 : Lists are Data Structures
4. Segment 79 : Selecting List Items
5. Segment 80 : Mutating Lists
6. Segment 81 : Unexpected Behavior with Mutable Objects
7. Segment 82 : Confirm Objects are the Same with id Function
8. Segment 83 : Creating a Unique List Copy
9. Segment 84 : Discovering List Methods
10. Segment 85 : The append Method
11. Segment 86 : The extend Method
12. Segment 87 : The insert Method
13. Segment 88 : The remove, pop, and clear Methods
14. Segment 89 : The reverse and sort Methods
15. Segment 90 : Reversing a List with Slice Notation
16. Segment 91 : The count and index Methods
17. Segment 92 : Getting the Length of a List
18. Segment 93 : Addition and Multiplicaiton Operators with Lists
19. Segment 94 : List Equality
20. Segment 95 : Check for Item Membership with the in Operator
21. Segment 96 : Lists of Lists
22. Segment 97 : Creating a String from a List
23. Segment 98 : Lists Summary
24. Segment 99 : Module 5 Project
1. Segment 100 : Introduction to the range Object
2. Segment 101 : The range Constructor
3. Segment 102 : Viewing the Sequence Defined by range
4. Segment 103 : The bool Constructor
5. Segment 104 : The int Constructor
6. Segment 105 : The float Constructor
7. Segment 106 : The str Contructor
8. Segment 107 : More range Functionality
9. Segment 108 : Summary of Module 6
10. Segment 109 : Module 6 Project
1. Segment 110 : Control Flow
2. Segment 111 : Python if Statements
3. Segment 112 : Indentation and Code Blocks
4. Segment 113 : else Statements
5. Segment 114 : elif Statements
6. Segment 115 : Dice Betting Game
7. Segment 116 : Multiple Boolean Conditions
8. Segment 117 : Ternary Conditional Operator
9. Segment 118 : Other Conditions
10. Segment 119 : Implied Truth Values
11. Segment 120 : Module 7 Summary
12. Segment 121 : Nested Conditional Statements
13. Segment 122 : Module 7 Project
1. Segment 123 : Writing Entire Programs
2. Segment 124 : Creating a Python Program
3. Segment 125 : Running a Python Program
4. Segment 126 : Source Code Editors
5. Segment 127 : Downloading Visual Studio Code
6. Segment 128 : Opening Python Files in VS Code
7. Segment 129 : Running Python Files in VS Code (EASY)
8. Segment 130 : Running Python Files in VS Code
9. Segment 131 : Creating New Python Files in VS Code
10. Segment 132 : Triva Game Instructions
11. Segment 133 : Coding the Trivia Game
12. Segment 134 : Summary Module 8
13. Segment 135 : Project - Choose Your Own Adventure Game
14. Segment 136 : Getting Started with the Game
15. Segment 137 : Coding the Game
1. Segment 138 : For-Loops
2. Segment 139 : Looping through a List
3. Segment 140 : Looping through range Objects
4. Segment 141 : Example for-loops
5. Segment 142 : While Loops
6. Segment 143 : Doubling Money While Loop
7. Segment 144 : Finding the Square Root using Newton_s Method
8. Segment 145 : Simple Guessing Game
9. Segment 146 : More Looping Control with continue and break
10. Segment 147 : While True then break
11. Segment 148 : Nested Loops
12. Segment 149 : Creating a Multiplication Table
13. Segment 150 : Generating Random Numbers
14. Segment 151 : Craps Game - Stage 1
15. Segment 152 : Craps Game - Stage 2
16. Segment 153 : Implementing Trivia Game with Loop
17. Segment 154 : Module 9 Summary
18. Segment 155 : Exercises 1-13
19. Segment 156 : Exercise 14
20. Segment 157 : Exercise 15
1. Segment 158 : List Comprehensions
2. Segment 159 : List Comprehension Examples
3. Segment 160 : Conditional List Comprehensions
4. Segment 161 : Conditional List Comprehension Examples
5. Segment 162 : Ternary Conditional Operator in List Comprehensions
6. Segment 163 : Complex List Comprehensions
7. Segment 164 : Nested for-loops within List Comprehensions
8. Segment 165 : List Comprehension Summary
9. Segment 166 : Project Solutions
1. Segment 167 : Intro to Functions
2. Segment 168 : Built-in Functions
3. Segment 169 : The any and all Functions
4. Segment 170 : The chr and ord Functions
5. Segment 171 : The dir Function
6. Segment 172 : The print Function
7. Segment 173 : The len Function
8. Segment 174 : The sorted Function
9. Segment 175 : Summary of Built-in Functions
10. Segment 176 : The id Function
11. Segment 177 : Project Solutions
1. Segment 178 : Intro to User-Defined Functions
2. Segment 179 : Functions that Explicitly Return a Value
3. Segment 180 : Calculating the Square Root of a Number
4. Segment 181 : Defining Functions with Parameters
5. Segment 182 : Defining a Function with Multiple Parameters
6. Segment 183 : Different Ways to Call the Function using Parameter Names
7. Segment 184 : Using Pre-Assigned Variables as Arguments
8. Segment 185 : Positional and Keyword Arguments
9. Segment 186 : Keyword-only Arguments
10. Segment 187 : Default Parameter Values
11. Segment 188 : Positional-only Arguments
12. Segment 189 : Built-in Functions with Positional-only and Keyword-only Arguments
13. Segment 190 : Documenting Functions with Docstrings
14. Segment 191 : Functions are Objects
15. Segment 192 : Function Attributes and Methods
16. Segment 193 : Some Built-in Functions are not Functions
17. Segment 194 : Anonymous Functions
18. Segment 195 : Use-Cases for Anonymous Functions
19. Segment 196 : The map Function
20. Segment 197 : The filter Function
21. Segment 198 : Refactoring Code
22. Segment 199 : Rules of Thumb for User-Defined Functions
23. Segment 200 : Testing Code with assert Statements
24. Segment 201 : User-Defined Functions Summary
25. Segment 202 : Project - Exercises 1-9
26. Segment 203 : Project - Exercises 10-13
1. Segment 204 : Tic-Tac-Toe
2. Segment 205 : Create the Board
3. Segment 206 : Output the Board
4. Segment 207 : Get Player Input
5. Segment 208 : Change Turn
6. Segment 209 : Validate Open Position
7. Segment 211 : Place Mark on Board
8. Segment 212 : Check for a Row Winner
9. Segment 213 : Check for a Column Winner
10. Segment 214 : Check for Diagonal Winner
11. Segment 215 : Check for a Winner
12. Segment 216 : Check for Cats Game
13. Segment 217 : Check for End of Game
14. Segment 218 : Play the game
1. Segment 219 : Data Structures
2. Segment 220 : Tuples
3. Segment 221 : More on tuple Creation
4. Segment 222 : Ambiguous tuple Situations
5. Segment 223 : Converting Iterables to tuples
6. Segment 224 : Selecting Items from a tuple
7. Segment 225 : Using Operators with tuples
8. Segment 226 : Tuple Methods
9. Segment 227 : Attempting to Mutate Tuples
10. Segment 228 : Why use tuples when lists are more flexible
11. Segment 229 : Sets
12. Segment 230 : Sets can only Contain Hashable Objects
13. Segment 231 : Accessing Items in a Set
14. Segment 232 : Using the set Constructor
15. Segment 233 : Finding the Number of Elements in a set
16. Segment 234 : Set Membership Checking
17. Segment 235 : Extremely Fast Membership Checking
18. Segment 236 : Mathematical Set Operations
19. Segment 237 : Set Methods
20. Segment 238 : The Birthday Paradox
21. Segment 239 : Estimating the Probability for each Group
22. Segment 240 : Estimating Probabilities for Many Groups
23. Segment 241 : Plotting the Probabilities
24. Segment 242 : Dictionaries
25. Segment 243 : Dictionary Keys must be Hashable
26. Segment 244 : Dictionary Constructor
27. Segment 245 : Creating Empty Dictionaries
28. Segment 246 : Selecting Values in a Dictionary
29. Segment 247 : Dictionary Membership Checking
30. Segment 248 : Dictionary get Method
31. Segment 249 : Retrieving the Keys and Values Separately
32. Segment 250 : Get the Items as an Iterable
33. Segment 251 : pop and popitem Methods
34. Segment 252 : Mutating Dictionaries
35. Segment 253 : Iterating through Dictionaries
36. Segment 254 : Looping to Find the Average Score
37. Segment 255 : Tuple, Set, and Dictionary Comprehensions
38. Segment 256 : Dictionary Comprehension Examples
39. Segment 257 : Unpacking Iterables
40. Segment 258 : Single-line Unpacking
41. Segment 259 : Partial Unpacking with Star Notation
42. Segment 260 : The zip Function
43. Segment 261 : Finding the Lowest Score
44. Segment 262 : Summary
45. Segment 263 : Module 14 Exercises
1. Segment 264 : Python Modules
2. Segment 265 : The Random Module
3. Segment 266 : Different Ways to Use the Import Statement
4. Segment 267 : Alias Names when Importing with as
5. Segment 268 : Import All Names from a Module
6. Segment 269 : Batteries Included
7. Segment 270 : The re Module - Regular Expressions
8. Segment 271 : The datetime Module
9. Segment 272 : The calendar Module
10. Segment 273 : The time Module
11. Segment 274 : The collections Module
12. Segment 275 : The copy Module
13. Segment 276 : The math Module
14. Segment 277 : The fractions Module
15. Segment 278 : The statistics Module
16. Segment 279 : The sys Module
17. Segment 280 : Way More to the Standard Library
18. Segment 281 : Third-Party Libraries
19. Segment 282 : Summary - Python Modules
20. Segment 283 : Module 15 Exercises
1. Segment 284 : User-Defined Python Modules
2. Segment 285 : Creating our own Python Modules
3. Segment 286 : Creating the my_array Module
4. Segment 287 : Using my_array_solutions
5. Segment 288 : Opening my_array in VS Code
6. Segment 289 : Unit Testing
7. Segment 290 : Running the Unit Tests
8. Segment 291 : Completing add_constant
9. Segment 292 : Sub, Mul, Div Constant
10. Segment 293 : The zip Function
11. Segment 294 : Add, Sub, Mul, and Div Arrays
12. Segment 295 : The Dot Product
13. Segment 296 : Importing a User-Defined Module
14. Segment 297 : Summary Module 16
1. Segment 298 : Errors and Exceptions
2. Segment 299 : Syntax Errors
3. Segment 300 : Errors vs Exceptions
4. Segment 301 : The KeyError
5. Segment 302 : The IndexError
6. Segment 303 : The TypeError
7. Segment 304 : ValueError
8. Segment 305 : The Attribute Error
9. Segment 306 : Other Exceptions
10. Segment 307 : Purposefully Raising Exceptions
11. Segment 308 : The isinstance Bult-in Function
12. Segment 309 : Raising Errors on Bad Input
13. Segment 310 : Handling Exceptions
14. Segment 311 : Catching All Errors
15. Segment 312 : Catching Multiple Different Errors
16. Segment 313 : The else and finally Blocks
17. Segment 314 : More on Exceptions
18. Segment 315 : Summary
19. Segment 316 : Exercise Solutions
1. Segment 317 : Files
2. Segment 318 : Opening and Reading Text Files
3. Segment 319 : Reading Continues Forward
4. Segment 320 : Closing a File
5. Segment 321 : Automated File Closing
6. Segment 322 : Reading in one line at a time
7. Segment 323 : Reading in each Line into a List
8. Segment 324 : Iterating through the lines in a file
9. Segment 325 : Reading in Files in Different Locations
10. Segment 326 : Reading in Non-Text Files
11. Segment 327 : Writing to a File
12. Segment 328 : Appending to Files
13. Segment 329 : Playing Bingo
14. Segment 330 : Reading in the Boards
15. Segment 331 : Checking the Winner
16. Segment 332 : Get All Winning Board Combinations
17. Segment 333 : Summary
18. Segment 334 : Exercises
1. Segment 335 : Classes
2. Segment 336 : Creating New Types
3. Segment 337 : Creating a Car Instance
4. Segment 338 : Instance Methods
5. Segment 339 : Object-Oriented Programming
6. Segment 340 : Initializing an Instance
7. Segment 341 : The Parameter Names Don_t Need to Match the Attribute Names
8. Segment 342 : Mutating Attributes
9. Segment 343 : Changing Attributes After Instantiation
10. Segment 344 : Return a Value from a Method
11. Segment 345 : Docstrings for Classes
12. Segment 346 : Calling Method from Attributes within your Class
13. Segment 347 : Setting an Attribute to an Instance from a User-Defined Class
14. Segment 348 : Object Composition
15. Segment 349 : The Dice Class
16. Segment 350 : Single Responsibility Principle
17. Segment 351 : Craps with Classes
18. Segment 352 : Playing Craps from the Command Line
19. Segment 353 : What does if __name__ == ___main___ mean_
20. Segment 354 : More to Classes
21. Segment 355 : Summary
1. Segment 356 : Texas Holdem Poker
2. Segment 357 : Four Rounds in a Hand
3. Segment 358 : The First Action
4. Segment 359 : Round Two - The Flop
5. Segment 360 : Round Three - The Turn
6. Segment 361 : Round Four - The River
7. Segment 362 : The Showdown
8. Segment 363 : Rules Summary
9. Segment 364 : Five-card Poker Hand Ranking
10. Segment 365 : Evaluating Hands within the Same Ranking Category
11. Segment 366 : Planning the Game Development
12. Segment 367 : The Card Class
13. Segment 368 : Displaying a Nice Text Output of the Card
14. Segment 369 : The __repr__ Special Method
15. Segment 370 : The __eq__ Special Method
16. Segment 371 : The Deck Class
17. Segment 372 : Making your Object Work with the Square Brackets
18. Segment 373 : The Hand Class
19. Segment 374 : The Evaluator Class
20. Segment 375 : Sorted Ranks
21. Segment 376 : The Full Evaluator Class
22. Segment 377 : The Player Class
23. Segment 378 : The Computer and Human Classes
24. Segment 379 : Subclasses
25. Segment 380 : The Poker Class
26. Segment 381 : Playing Texas Holdem Poker
27. Segment 382 : Unit Tests
28. Segment 383 :Project - Artificial Intelligence
29. Segment 384 :Exercise 1 - Calculating a Preflop Score
30. Segment 385 :Exercise 2 - Preflop Score List
31. Segment 386 :Exercise 3 - Calculating Preflop Rank
32. Segment 387 :Exercise 4 - Relative Hand Ranking After the Flop
33. Segment 388 :Exercise 5 - Implementing the Artificial Intelligence

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Fundamentals of Python

Course curriculum

Module 1: Operators

Module 2: What is Python?

Module 3 : Objects and Types

Module 4: Strings

Module 5: Lists

Module 6: Ranges and Constructors

Module 7: Conditional Statements

Module 8: Writing Entire Programs

Module 9: Looping

Module 10: Lists Comprehensions

Module 11: Built-in Functions

Module 12: User-Defined Functions

Module 13: Tic-Tac-Toe

Module 14: Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries

Module 15: Python Modules

Module 16: User-Defined Python Modules

Module 17: Errors and Exceptions

Module 18: Files

Module 19: Classes

Module 20: Texas Holdem Poker

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