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Compared with many other languages, Python’s object-oriented facilities are quite straightforward and simple. Once you understand classes, instances, attributes, and methods, you’ve basically learned everything you need, right?
Maybe, if you have simple needs. But if you want to build complex object-oriented systems, or just want to really understand what Python is doing when it works with objects, then you’ll need to go deeper, looking at such topics as magic methods, inheritance, descriptors, and metaclasses. Even if you don’t use these techniques in your programs, they’ll help you to see the consistency and elegance in Python’s implementation. You’ll understand error messages that come up, and traps that people fall into.
Python’s objects are just as capable as those in other languages, but it takes some time to understand just how those capabilities are implemented, and how to take advantage of them. In this course, you’ll uncover all of the secrets of object-oriented Python, and come out a better, more sophisticated coder.
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Reuven is a full-time Python trainer. In a given year, he teaches courses at companies in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and China — as well as to people around the world, via his online courses.
Reuven created one of the first 100 Web sites in the world just after graduating from MIT’s computer science department. He opened Lerner Consulting in 1995, and has been offering training services since 1996.
In 2020, Reuven published “Python Workout,” a collection of Python exercises with extensive explanations, published by Manning. He’s currently finishing edits on “Pandas Workout,” a similar collection of exercises using the “Pandas” library for data analytics.
Reuven’s free, weekly “Better developers” newsletter, about Python and software engineering, is read by more than 30,000 developers around the globe. His “Trainer weekly” newsletter is popular among people who give corporate training.
Reuven’s most recent venture is Bamboo Weekly: Every Wednesday, he presents a problem based on current events, using a public data set. And every Thursday, he shared detailed solutions to those problems using Pandas.
Reuven’s monthly column appeared in Linux Journal from 1996 until the magazine’s demise in 2019. He was also a panelist on both the Business of Freelancing and Freelancers Show podcasts.
Reuven has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from MIT, and a PhD in learning sciences from Northwestern University. He lives in Modi’in, Israel with his wife and three children.
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