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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how every item of data in a Python program can be described by the abstract term “object,” and how to manipulate objects using symbolic names called “variables.”

In this course, you’ll learn the basics of creating powerful web applications with Django, a Python web framework. You’ll build a portfolio website to showcase your web development projects, complete with a fully functioning blog.

In this step-by-step course, you learn how to get started with the Jupyter Notebook, an open source web application that you can use to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and text.