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A huge part of coding in Python revolves around the core data structures: Strings, lists, tuples, and dicts. It’s not hard to start using those, and even to use them well.
This course aims to take you beyond the basics, what you get in a typical intro Python course. We’ll look at how the core data structures are implemented, and some of the limits that Python places on them. Then we’ll look at combinations of data structures, and the trade-offs involved in each of them. Finally, we’ll look at a number of useful data structures in the Python standard library, seeing how and when to best use them.
When you’re done with this course, you’ll not only feel more comfortable using the builtin data structures, but you’ll be able to confidently make decisions about when and how to use them.
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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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