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Python Mastery

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🌱 Warm-up — from zero to running code 4

Run your very first Python program
Variables, numbers, strings, and f-strings
Booleans, comparisons, and if/else
Loops, lists, and the patterns you'll use daily

🧰 Setup & tooling 3

Install Python and the modern toolchain (uv, ruff, mypy)
The Python runtime — interpreter, bytecode, and startup
Project layout — src/, tests/, config, and secrets
Quiz — Setup & tooling

🐍 Fundamentals 5

Syntax, types, and control flow
Lists, tuples, sets, dicts — and when to reach for each
Functions, closures, and scoping
Strings, encoding, and file I/O
Errors, exceptions, and the logging module
Quiz — Fundamentals

🧱 Object-oriented Python 5

Classes, methods, and dunder methods
Inheritance, MRO, and super()
Dataclasses and Pydantic v2
Protocols and abstract base classes
Design patterns in idiomatic Python
Quiz — Object-oriented Python

🧠 Advanced language features 5

Decorators — functions, classes, and parameterised
Generators, iterators, and yield from
Context managers and contextlib
Descriptors and metaclasses — power features, used sparingly
Static typing with mypy and pyright
Quiz — Advanced language features

📦 Standard library & modern Python 5

Standard library tour: itertools, functools, pathlib, and friends
Regex and text processing
Concurrency: threads, processes, and the GIL
asyncio deep dive — the model that runs modern Python services
Modern Python features (3.11–3.14)
Quiz — Standard library & modern Python

📊 Data with Python 5

NumPy essentials — vectorise everything
pandas patterns that actually scale
polars — the fast alternative to pandas
Visualisation — matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, and altair
Databases: SQLAlchemy, asyncpg, and connection pools
Quiz — Data with Python

🧪 Testing & quality 4

pytest — fixtures, parametrise, and plugins
Property-based testing with hypothesis
Type checking with mypy and pyright in CI
Linting, formatting, and pre-commit
Quiz — Testing & quality

⚡ Performance 4

Profiling — cProfile, py-spy, and memory profilers
Optimisation techniques for pure Python
Parallelism — multiprocessing, joblib, and Dask
CPython internals — reference counts, the GIL, and free-threading
Quiz — Performance

🌐 Web & APIs 4

FastAPI in depth — routers, dependencies, and lifespan
Pydantic v2 for API validation and settings
httpx — sync and async HTTP clients
Streaming, Server-Sent Events, and WebSockets
Quiz — Web & APIs

🚚 Packaging & distribution 4

pyproject.toml and uv — the modern package layout
Publishing to PyPI — trusted publishing and CI
Docker for Python apps — small, fast, reproducible
Shipping compiled Python — PyInstaller, Nuitka, and wheels
Quiz — Packaging & distribution

🎯 Interview prep 2

Coding problems — idiomatic Python under pressure
System-design prompts — Python-focused

🏆 Final exam

Academy / Python Mastery / Final exam

Final exam

30 questions spanning every module. Score 70% or higher to earn your certificate as Certified Python Engineer.

🏆 Certification 30 questions Pass mark 70%

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