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Are you confused by object-oriented programming? If so, you’re not alone: When I ask people what frustrates them most about programming in Python, “objects” is one of the first answers that I get.
This makes sense: Object-oriented programming isn’t necessarily difficult, but it involves concepts and syntax that are different from traditional, procedural programming. It requires that you think differently, and that you structure your program in a different way.
This course, the same one that I’ve been giving to Fortune 500 companies for more than two decades, will get you up to speed on Python objects. You’ll understand not only how to write your own classes, but how object-oriented programming exists throughout Python, and how understand objects help you to understand how the core data structures work. Along the way, you’ll learn about attributes (easily one of the most important topics, even though it’s ignored by most people), inheritance, and how to structure your programs.
After taking this course, you’ll finally understand objects, and will know how to use them to make your code easier to write, maintain, and extend.
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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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