Python · Basic to Pro
Python Programming — Full Course
This course takes you from a completely blank Python file to writing the kind of code you would find in a real production codebase — comprehensions, decorators, context managers, and calling live APIs with proper error handling.
Every lesson is written, not filmed: read at your own pace, copy the code examples into your own editor, and use the Back and Forward buttons to move through the course in the order it was designed.
What you will learn
- Core syntax: variables, data types, operators, and control flow
- Writing clean functions and understanding scope
- Lists, tuples, and dictionaries — the data structures behind almost everything in Python
- Object-oriented programming: classes, objects, and inheritance
- Reading and writing files, including CSV data
- List/dict/set comprehensions and generators for cleaner, more efficient code
- Decorators and custom context managers
- Calling real-world APIs with
requests, virtual environments, and proper error handling
Who this is for
No prior programming experience required. If you have never written a line of code, start at Lesson 1. If you already know another language, feel free to skim the basics and slow down from the comprehensions lesson onward.
Lessons
01
Welcome to Python: What It Is and Why It Matters
4 min read
02
Variables, Data Types and Type Conversion
2 min read
03
Operators and Expressions
2 min read
04
Control Flow: if/elif/else and Loops
2 min read
05
Functions and Scope
2 min read
06
Lists, Tuples and Dictionaries
2 min read
07
Object-Oriented Programming Basics
2 min read
08
File Handling and What’s Next
2 min read
09
Comprehensions and Generators
2 min read
10
Decorators and Context Managers
2 min read
11
Working with APIs and Virtual Environments
2 min read