In this four-part tutorial series, you’ll build a social network with Django to showcase in your portfolio. You’ll learn about relationships between Django models and how to use forms so that users can interact with your app. You’ll also make your site look good by using the Bulma CSS framework.
I lead Python developer education at Real Python as Head of Content Strategy and I still teach hands-on. Below are the tutorials and video courses I’ve authored for a community of more than a million developers, alongside some earlier writing from my Medium days (2017–2018). Newest first.
Raising and Handling Python Exceptions
In this course, you’ll learn what an exception is and how it differs from a syntax error. You’ll learn about raising exceptions, making assertions, and catching exceptions to change the control flow of your program using the try, except, else, and finally keywords.
Reading Input and Writing Output in Python
In this introductory Python course, you’ll learn how to take user input from the keyboard with the built-in function input() and how to display output to the console with the built-in function print().
Writing Idiomatic Python
What are the programming idioms unique to Python? This course is a short overview for people coming from other languages and an introduction for beginners to the idiomatic practices within Python. You’ll cover truth values, looping, DRY principles, and the Zen of Python.
Graph Your Data With Python and ggplot
In this course, you’ll learn how to use ggplot in Python to build data visualizations with plotnine. You’ll discover what a grammar of graphics is and how it can help you create plots in a very concise and consistent way.
Using sleep() to Code a Python Uptime Bot
In this course, you’ll learn how to add time delays to your Python programs. You’ll use the built-in time module to add Python sleep() calls to your code. To practice, you’ll use time.sleep() when making an uptime bot that checks whether a website is still live.
How to Set Up a Django Project
In this course, you’ll learn the necessary steps you’ll need to take to set up a new Django project. You’ll learn the basic setup for any new Django project that needs to happen before programming the specific functionality of your project.
Python Web Applications: Deploy Your Script as a Flask App
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to go from a local Python script to a fully deployed Flask web application that you can share with the world.
Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python
In this course, you’ll walk through the main steps of the web scraping process. You’ll learn how to write a script that uses Python’s requests library to scrape data from a website. You’ll also use Beautiful Soup to extract the specific pieces of information that you’re interested in.
Finding the Perfect Python Code Editor
Find your perfect Python development setup with this review of Python IDEs and code editors. Writing Python using IDLE or the Python REPL is great for simple things, but not ideal for larger programming projects. With this course you’ll get an overview of the most common Python coding environments to help you make an informed decision.