Python

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• What Python is ~25 min
• Installing Python 3.14 ~35 min
• The interactive interpreter ~30 min
• Writing and running scripts ~30 min
• Editors, IDEs, and notebooks ~40 min
• Syntax, statements, and expressions ~35 min
• Variables, objects, and references ~40 min
• Input, output, and first errors ~45 min

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• Everything is an object ~35 min
• Integers and arithmetic ~40 min
• Floats and complex numbers ~45 min
• Booleans and None ~35 min
• Comparisons and boolean logic ~40 min
• Identity, equality, and membership ~35 min
• Precedence and conversion ~40 min
• The math, statistics, and random modules ~45 min

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• String literals and escapes ~40 min
• Indexing, slicing, and immutability ~45 min
• String methods ~50 min
• Split, join, and parsing lines ~50 min
• Formatting with f-strings ~50 min
• Unicode, UTF-8, and bytes ~50 min
• Regular expressions ~60 min
• Text-processing patterns ~55 min

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• if, elif, and else ~45 min
• Conditional expressions and match ~45 min
• while loops ~45 min
• for loops and range ~45 min
• break, continue, pass, and loop else ~45 min
• Nested loops ~40 min
• Loop patterns ~45 min
• Solving problems with loops ~50 min

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• Lists ~40 min
• Changing lists ~40 min
• Tuples and unpacking ~40 min
• Dictionaries ~45 min
• Sets ~40 min
• Nesting, mutability, and copying ~45 min
• Sorting and iteration tools ~45 min
• Comprehensions ~50 min
• The collections module and structural patterns ~50 min

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• Defining and calling functions ~50 min
• Parameters and arguments ~50 min
• Scope and namespaces ~50 min
• Flexible signatures ~50 min
• Functions as values ~50 min
• Recursion ~50 min
• Designing functions ~60 min

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• Modules and imports ~55 min
• __name__ and the main guard ~40 min
• Packages and relative imports ~50 min
• The standard library ~55 min
• Virtual environments ~50 min
• Installing packages ~50 min
• Projects with pyproject.toml and uv ~60 min
• Version control with git ~55 min

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• Paths with pathlib ~55 min
• Reading and writing text files ~55 min
• Binary files and encodings ~50 min
• Directories and file operations ~60 min
• CSV files ~55 min
• JSON and serialization ~55 min
• Configuration files and environment variables ~50 min
• Data-processing programs ~65 min

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• Exceptions and tracebacks ~50 min
• try, except, else, and finally ~55 min
• Raising and custom exceptions ~55 min
• Exception design ~50 min
• Debugging ~60 min
• Logging ~50 min
• Unit testing with pytest ~60 min
• Fixtures, edge cases, and TDD ~65 min

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• Classes and instances ~55 min
• Class and instance attributes ~50 min
• Special methods ~60 min
• Encapsulation and properties ~55 min
• Inheritance and super() ~60 min
• Composition and polymorphism ~55 min
• Abstract base classes ~55 min
• Dataclasses and enums ~60 min
• Python's flexible object model ~55 min

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• Iterables and iterators ~50 min
• Generators and yield ~55 min
• Generator pipelines ~50 min
• itertools and functools ~55 min
• Closures ~50 min
• Decorators ~60 min
• Context managers ~60 min
• Descriptors and attribute access ~40 min

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• Why type hints? ~45 min
• Annotating variables and functions ~55 min
• Literal, TypedDict and type aliases ~50 min
• Protocols and generics ~60 min
• Type checkers: mypy and pyright ~55 min
• Annotations at runtime ~45 min
• Formatting, linting and a modern workflow ~60 min

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• Sequential, concurrent, and parallel ~40 min
• Threads ~45 min
• Processes ~45 min
• concurrent.futures ~45 min
• Coroutines, async, and await ~45 min
• Tasks and TaskGroups ~50 min
• Async in practice ~50 min

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• How the web works ~40 min
• Methods, status codes and headers ~40 min
• Calling APIs with requests and httpx ~50 min
• JSON APIs and REST ~45 min
• Authentication and secrets ~45 min
• HTML and the DOM ~40 min
• Responsible web scraping ~40 min
• Parsing HTML with Beautiful Soup ~45 min

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• The Python ecosystem map ~35 min
• NumPy arrays ~40 min
• Vectorization and broadcasting ~45 min
• Indexing, views, and linear algebra ~50 min
• pandas Series and DataFrames ~50 min
• Filtering, grouping, and joining ~50 min
• Polars in brief ~35 min
• Visualization ~40 min
• Where Python leads next ~30 min

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• SQL in one section ~50 min
• sqlite3 and the DB-API ~55 min
• SQLAlchemy ~55 min
• Web frameworks ~40 min
• A small FastAPI service ~60 min
• Flask in brief ~40 min
• Command-line programs ~50 min
• Automation scripts ~55 min

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• The language and its implementations ~35 min
• From source code to bytecode ~40 min
• The interpreter loop ~40 min
• Memory management ~40 min
• The GIL and free-threaded Python ~40 min
• C extensions ~35 min
• Other Python implementations ~40 min

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• Project architecture ~45 min
• Dependencies and lockfiles ~45 min
• Building and publishing distributions ~60 min
• Documentation ~40 min
• Continuous integration ~45 min
• Configuration, secrets and production logging ~50 min
• Security basics ~50 min
• Performance and profiling ~55 min
• Deployment ~55 min

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• Choosing a project ~35 min
• Planning and architecture ~45 min
• Option 1: a data analysis application ~40 min
• Option 2: an API and data application ~40 min
• Option 3: a web application ~40 min
• Option 4: an automation system ~40 min
• Engineering review ~40 min

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• Older Python, and its modern form ~45 min

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• What Python 3.15 adds ~40 min