Python intermediate series - Working with lists

This course teaches developers what they should know about Python lists beyond beginner level. The course aims to solidify and deepen your basic knowledge about lists, tuples, dictionaries and sets to intermediate level.

Developers who follow the course, will learn tips and tricks and work through many exercises that allows them to practice common list tasks.

Target audience

Developers who especially benefit from this course, are:

• beginning programmers with ~6 months Python experience who want to take their coding skills to the next level
• developers who bring experience from another programming language and want to learn how to work with lists in Python
• self-taught Python developers who want to improve their list skills by learning best practices

Enroll in the course on Udemy

What can you do after this course?

• Make better decisions when to use one of the 4 built-in container types by seeing their specific features
• Work with lists more efficiently by using Python-specific language features like unpacking, slicing and comprehensions
• Optimize your existing code after learning that Python offers many built-in common list operations

Topics

• What is a Container? Container definition and the 4 built-in container types in Python.
• Lists: Create and change lists. Accessing elements, reverse, sort, count elements.
• Tuples: Create and unpack, assign, swap variables, tuples as return type.
• Dictionaries: Dictionary purpose, keys, lookup, iterate.
• Sets: Set purpose, mathematical operations, superset, subset.
• Common operations: Zip, enumerate, all, any, concatenate, check if element is in list.
• Comprehensions: Mapping, filtering, flatten, matrix.

Duration

2 hours video time, ~6 hours including practicing exercises.

Level

Beginner, Intermediate

Requirements

• Beginner understanding of programming (calculate, variables, loops) in Python or another language
• You have Python installed and can execute programs

Price

$24,99