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Learn Object Oriented Programming in Python

Use classes when they help, skip the complexity when they don't, and learn OOP as a practical way to organize code.

What you'll learn in this Python course

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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Good introduction into OOP, never practiced OOP with python that was cool to see so students didn't have to change to a new language.

(4/5)
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Giovanni Nino

United States

Was good course. Getting more difficult.

(4/5)
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potato pobobot

Canada

I was pleasantly surprised by this course, as someone who has intermediate OOP knowledge. I learnt a good deal more than I expected.

(5/5)
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JLH M

Australia

This course is great for introducing you to OOP, principles, why we use it, etc..

(5/5)
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Aduneer

Germany

I now have a "clue" about Object Oriented Programming in Python !

(5/5)
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Peter Braun

United States

I feel like the later portions of Inheritance and Polymorphism arent explained very well

(3/5)
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Wallace Barnes

United States

This one has been actually challenging

(5/5)
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G Arteche

Andorra

Great rundown on these subjects in a way that finally makes sense by applying it to project-like process.

(5/5)
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Angus McKelvey

United States

Good

(5/5)
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Yassir Boutahri

Morocco

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