Core Python 3: Functions and Functional Programming

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Austin Bingham

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1. Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

01:59

2. Function and Callables

1. Review of Functions.mp4

04:42

2. Callable Instances.mp4

03:41

3. Classes Are Callable.mp4

02:55

4. Lambdas.mp4

04:14

5. Summary.mp4

01:05

3. Extended Argument and Call Syntax

1. Extended Formal Argument Syntax.mp4

04:02

2. Keyword and Positional-only Arguments.mp4

04:13

3. Extended Call Syntax.mp4

02:49

4. Summary.mp4

00:41

4. Closures

1. Local Functions.mp4

05:35

2. Closures and Nested Scopes.mp4

02:43

3. The Nonlocal Keyword.mp4

04:16

4. Summary.mp4

00:55

5. Function Decorators

1. Function Decorators.mp4

04:25

2. What Can Be a Decorator.mp4

02:57

3. Applying Multiple Decorators.mp4

01:50

4. Preserving Function Metadata.mp4

02:45

5. Parameterized Decorators.mp4

03:25

6. Functional-style Tools

1. Map.mp4

05:44

2. Filter.mp4

01:49

3. Reduce.mp4

02:16

4. Combining the Tools.mp4

02:25

7. Multi-input and Nested Comprehension

1. Multi-input Comprehensions.mp4

03:45

2. Nested Comprehensions.mp4

02:42

Description

A key to Python's expressiveness lies in its model of functions and the tools it provides for working with them. In this course, you'll learn more about Python's concept of "callable objects" and some sophisticated ways to use them in your programs.

What You'll Learn?

In Python, as with most programming languages, functions are a fundamental tool for managing program complexity. Understanding how to use functions fluently is a key skill on the road to mastering Python, as is knowing alternative techniques for the cases where functions are insufficient for your needs. In this course,Core Python 3: Functions and Functional Programming, you'll learn about some of the finer details of using functions as well as more general concepts that subsume them. First, you'll look at the various types of callable objects in Python, along with extended argument definition and calling syntax. Then, you'll explore local functions and the concept of closures that allow them to work. Next, you'll discover Python's powerful system of decorators which allow you to enhance or modify existing functions. Finally, you'll understand the functional-style programming tools in Python along with advanced use of comprehensions. By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of Python's sophisticated approach to calling functions, and you'll see that functions are actually just one aspect of a more general set of concepts in the language.

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Austin Bingham

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Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter and teacher, having spoken at a number of conferences, software groups, and internal corporate venues. Austin is also an active member of the open source community, contributing regularly to various Python and Emacs projects, and he's the founder of Stavanger Software Developers, one of the largest and most active social software groups in Stavanger. Austin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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