Intermediate Python · Online Course

Python 102

Go from Python basics to building real, packaged programs — with OOP, APIs, databases, data analysis, and a full capstone project.

📅 8 Sessions
⏱ 16 Hours  total
🧩 35+ Exercises
🌐 100% Online
🏆 Capstone Project  portfolio-ready
💰 $80  full course
Course Sessions
01🔁
Refresher & Smarter Lists
Comprehensions, zip, enumerate, generators
2h
List comprehensionsDict comprehensions Tuple unpackingzip() enumerate()sorted / max / min with key any() / all()Intro to generators
Rewrite for-loops as comprehensions
Student score report with zip & enumerate
Top & bottom students with sorted/max/min
Generator function for even numbers
Word frequency counter with dict comp
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Mini Project
Student Grade Report
Build a grade summary using comprehensions, zip, enumerate, and sorted — clean, readable Python.
02🧱
OOP Basics
Classes, inheritance, @property, @classmethod
2h
Classes & instances__init__ & __str__ Instance vs class attributesInheritance & super() @property@classmethodisinstance()
Build a Book class with checkout methods
Animal family with inheritance
Rectangle with @property and @classmethod
Bank account with history tracking
Library system with composition
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Mini Project
Library Management System
Book, Member, and Library classes working together with checkout, return, and search.
03⚙️
Functions as Tools
map, filter, lambda, and one clear decorator
2h
Functions as valuesmap() & filter() lambdasorted() with key @timer decoratorfunctools.wraps *args & **kwargs
Sort & filter products with lambdas
Write apply_to_all(items, func)
Read and use the timer decorator
Write a logging decorator from scratch
Input validation decorator
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Mini Project
Decorator Toolkit
Build @timer and @log_call decorators and apply them to functions from previous sessions.
04📁
File I/O & Error Handling
Files, JSON, CSV, pathlib, try/except
2h
with open()pathlib json.load / dumpcsv.DictReader / DictWriter try / except / finallyCustom exceptions
Read CSV → write formatted JSON
Safe file reader with error handling
Config loader with fallback defaults
Custom ValidationError exception
Expense tracker that persists to disk
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Mini Project
Personal Expense Tracker
CLI app that saves/loads expenses from a JSON file with full error handling.
05🌐
APIs & Web Data
HTTP requests, JSON responses, BeautifulSoup
2h
requests.get()Status codes response.json()Query parameters raise_for_status()POST requests BeautifulSoup introAPI keys & headers
Fetch & display user data from JSONPlaceholder
Weather checker for 3 cities (Open-Meteo)
GitHub public repos ranked by stars
Scrape quotes → save to JSON
Reusable safe_get() wrapper function
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Mini Project
Weather Dashboard CLI
Fetch 3-day forecasts for any city, cache results in JSON, handle all network errors.
06🗄️
Databases & Pandas
SQLite CRUD, parameterized queries, DataFrames
2h
sqlite3CREATE / INSERT / SELECT Parameterized queriesrow_factory pd.read_csv()Filtering & sorting groupby + aggpd.read_sql() to_csv()
Contacts database with CRUD
Explore Titanic dataset with Pandas
Sales summary report with groupby
SQLite → Pandas bridge with pd.read_sql
Mini data pipeline: API → Pandas → CSV
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Mini Project
Student Grade Analyser
Load grades from SQLite into Pandas, compute stats, export a formatted CSV report.
07🚀
Modules, Packaging & Testing
venv, argparse, pytest, project structure
2h
Package structure__init__.py Relative importsvenv & pip requirements.txtargparse subcommands pytest basics.gitignore & README
Package the expense tracker into modules
Add CLI with argparse to weather tool
Write 5 pytest tests for grade analyser
Set up capstone project environment
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Mini Project
Full Packaged CLI App
Proper package structure, CLI, persistent data, API call, error handling, and pytest tests.
08 🏆
Final Project — Demo Day
Present your capstone · Peer review · Certificate
2h
Live demo Code review Peer feedback Q&A Certificate Next steps
Each student presents their capstone project live
Demonstrate: CLI, data persistence, API, tests
Receive structured written feedback from instructor
Group code review — best patterns highlighted
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Capstone Requirements
Your Python 102 Project
A portfolio-ready Python program: proper package, CLI with argparse, persistent data, at least one API, full error handling, and 5+ pytest tests. Something you'd be proud to show on GitHub.