Python Basics

Chapter 1: Variables, Types & Operators

• ▸Variables and types
• ▸Arithmetic operators
• ▸Comparisons and truthiness

Chapter 2: Data Structures: list, tuple, dict, set

• ▸Lists
• ▸Tuples
• ▸Dictionaries
• ▸Sets

Chapter 3: Control Flow & Comprehensions

• ▸if / elif / else
• ▸The for loop
• ▸The while loop
• ▸List comprehensions

Chapter 4: Strings and formatting

• ▸Strings
• ▸String methods
• ▸f-strings and formatting
• ▸Slicing

Chapter 5: Functions

• ▸Defining a function
• ▸Parameters and arguments
• ▸Default values and keyword arguments
• ▸return vs print

Chapter 6: Errors and exceptions

• ▸Exceptions
• ▸try / except
• ▸Handling specific exceptions
• ▸finally and raise

Chapter 7: Modules and imports

• ▸Importing a module
• ▸from ... import
• ▸Aliases with as
• ▸The standard library

Chapter 8: OOP: classes and objects

• ▸Classes and objects
• ▸Attributes and __init__
• ▸Methods
• ▸Inheritance

Chapter 9: Advanced comprehensions

• ▸Dict comprehension
• ▸Set comprehension
• ▸Comprehensions with a condition
• ▸Nested comprehensions

Chapter 10: Generators

• ▸yield: the generator function
• ▸Consuming a generator
• ▸Generator expressions
• ▸Why generators

Chapter 11: Decorators

• ▸Functions are objects
• ▸What is a decorator
• ▸The @ syntax
• ▸Decorators with arguments

Chapter 12: Lambda and higher-order functions

• ▸Lambda
• ▸map and filter
• ▸sorted with key
• ▸Higher-order functions

Chapter 13: Interview topics

• ▸is vs ==
• ▸Mutable default arguments
• ▸Copy vs reference
• ▸args and kwargs

Chapter 14: Type hints and typing

• ▸Type annotations
• ▸Optional and Union
• ▸Typed collections
• ▸dataclasses
• ▸NamedTuple and TypedDict

Chapter 15: The data model: dunder methods

• ▸The data model and dunder methods
• ▸__str__ and __repr__
• ▸__eq__ and __hash__
• ▸Behaving like a sequence
• ▸Operator overloading
• ▸__call__ and other dunders

Chapter 16: Context managers (with)

• ▸The with block
• ▸__enter__ and __exit__
• ▸contextlib.contextmanager
• ▸Exceptions and cleanup
• ▸contextlib tools

Chapter 17: Advanced decorators

• ▸Decorators and functools.wraps
• ▸Decorators with arguments
• ▸property
• ▸lru_cache and functools
• ▸Stateful and class decorators

Chapter 18: Advanced iterators and itertools

• ▸The iterator protocol
• ▸yield from
• ▸Generator pipelines
• ▸itertools: the essentials
• ▸itertools: accumulate and groupby

Chapter 19: collections and heapq

• ▸Counter
• ▸defaultdict
• ▸deque
• ▸namedtuple
• ▸heapq: priority queues

Chapter 20: Performance and best practices

• ▸Comprehensions vs loops
• ▸Generators for memory
• ▸The right structures
• ▸Pythonic idioms
• ▸Common pitfalls

Chapter 21: Final project: Contact book