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Learn Object Oriented Programming in Python

Object-oriented programming is a pattern for organizing code that's critical whether or not you plan to make use of inheritance. Understand its most important tenets.

What will you learn?

Learn the fundamentals of the most widely-used programming paradigm today: object-oriented programming. You will model real-world problems within your programs, and learn how to write code that is easy to understand and maintain. By the end of this course you'll be writing production-quality Python code.

Chapter List

1
Clean Code
Understand why we have programming paradigms in the first place, and how they help us write more maintainable code
2
Classes
Learn about classes and objects, and how OOP differs from a functional programming paradigm.
3
Encapsulation
Learn how to write cleaner code by encapsulating data and methods.
4
Abstraction
Abstraction is a powerful tool that will make your code more robust and reusable.
5
Inheritance
The crux of OOP is the ability to inherit data and behaviors from other classes
6
Polymorphism
Polymorphism is one of the best ideas we've had as developers, learn how it works.

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VAMSI DEVALLA

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Fantastic! The explanations were crisp and the demos were grounded in real engineering scenarios. What stood out to me was the clear discussion around testing strategies and how to evolve a codebase over time. The sample repository was well-structured and made it simple to jump between sections. I’d love to see a follow-up lesson that goes deeper into profiling and performance tuning.

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Tim Adizov

San Francisco Bay Area

Fantastic! The explanations were crisp and the demos were grounded in real engineering scenarios. What stood out to me was the clear discussion around testing strategies and how to evolve a codebase over time. The sample repository was well-structured and made it simple to jump between sections. I’d love to see a follow-up lesson that goes deeper into profiling and performance tuning.

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Ehsan Vessal

San Diego, CA

Fantastic! The explanations were crisp and the demos were grounded in real engineering scenarios. What stood out to me was the clear discussion around testing strategies and how to evolve a codebase over time. The sample repository was well-structured and made it simple to jump between sections. I’d love to see a follow-up lesson that goes deeper into profiling and performance tuning.

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I appreciated how the instructor broke down the core concepts into digestible steps. The examples were practical and mirrored what I encounter in my day-to-day work. In particular, the section on error handling and observability tied everything together. If I had a minor nitpick, it would be that the pacing sped up in the last module, but the accompanying notes and code samples made it easy to revisit and cement the ideas.

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