Python powers the infrastructure at Google, Yahoo, IBM, and thousands of other organizations, yet many developers struggle to move beyond basic syntax. This course bridges that gap.
Senior software engineer Ryan Mitchell takes you from Python setup through production-ready programming skills. You’ll start with foundational concepts like how computers process code, then move through variables, operators, and control flow before tackling more complex topics. The course covers essential data types (integers, floats, Booleans, strings, bytes) and data structures (lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries) with practical applications.
You’ll build real programming skills through object-oriented programming with classes and inheritance, error handling with custom exceptions, and concurrent programming using threads and processes. The curriculum includes hands-on work with file operations (reading, writing, CSV, JSON), command-line arguments, and creating reusable modules and packages.
Using Jupyter Notebooks for interactive coding, you’ll complete challenges that reinforce each concept. Mitchell’s approach emphasizes understanding why Python works the way it does, not just memorizing syntax. You’ll learn comprehensions for cleaner code, scope management for better functions, and multiprocessing for performance optimization.
This course is part of the Python Institute Professional Certificate, giving you credentials recognized across the industry. Whether you’re automating tasks, building applications, or preparing for data science work, you’ll gain the core Python skills that translate across domains.
