Advanced oop with Python - Beyond the basics

Target audience

Students who especially benefit from this course:

• Python developers who learned the basics of OOP and want a deeper dive into the mechanics of OOP in Python
• developers who bring experience from another OO programming language and want to learn how to use OOP in Python
• self-taught OOP developers who want to improve their skills by learning best practices

Training contents

• Classes and Objects: Class instantiation, self, data attributes, UML, methods, __str__, __repr__, constructor
• Inheritance: Inherit, extend and override methods, access to base class via super, abstract base class
• OOP in a dynamic language: Dynamically typing, Static type checking, overloading
• Polymorphism: Open-closed principle, type equality, interfaces and protocols
• Encapsulation: Attribute visibility. name mangling, properties
• Classes in Python: Class as object, class variables, class and static methods

What can you do after this course?

• make better decisions when and how to use OOP features in your code
• create more efficient classes by integrating Python’s built-in language features
• embrace the dynamic character of Python by using structural type checking

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