Python Classes and Inheritance
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Python Classes and Inheritance
This course is part of Python 3 Programming Specialization
Instructors: Steve Oney
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What you'll learn
Explore classes, instances, and inheritance to represent data efficiently.
Gain insights into class design and cultivate the practice of writing automated tests for your code.
Learn to override built-in methods and create inherited classes that reuse functionality.
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There are 4 modules in this course
This course introduces classes, instances, and inheritance. You will learn how to use classes to represent data in concise and natural ways. You'll also learn how to override built-in methods and how to create "inherited" classes that reuse functionality. You'll also learn about how to design classes. Finally, you will be introduced to the good programming habit of writing automated tests for their own code.
The course is best-suited for you if you are already familiar with Python fundamentals, which are covered in the "Python Basics" and "Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries" courses (courses 1 and 2 of the Python 3 Programming Specialization). It is optional to have taken the "Data Collection and Processing with Python" course (course 3 of the specialization), but knowledge of retrieving and processing complex nested data is helpful. This is the fourth of five courses in the Python 3 Programming Specialization.
An introduction to the course
What's included
5 videos2 readings1 ungraded lab
5 videos•Total 42 minutes
- Introduction to the Specialization•11 minutes
- What’s New? Updates and Improvements in the Second Edition•2 minutes
- Welcome to Python Classes and Inheritance•3 minutes
- How to Use the Interactive Textbook•14 minutes
- Executing Python in the Jupyter Environment (Optional)•11 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- Syllabus•10 minutes
- Help Us Learn More About You!•10 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
- (Optional) Getting Started with Jupyter Notebooks•60 minutes
In this module, lectures and activities from the Runestone textbook will cover more complex data structures. By the end of this week, you will have learned how to process json formatted data, traverse nested data using nested iteration, and extract values from nested data.
What's included
17 videos1 assignment1 programming assignment15 app items1 ungraded lab
17 videos•Total 75 minutes
- Introduction: Constructing Classes•1 minute
- User-Defined Classes•9 minutes
- Adding Parameters to the Constructor•4 minutes
- Adding Other Methods to a Class•6 minutes
- Instance Variable Search Order•2 minutes
- Private and Public Instance Variables•7 minutes
- Example: Creating Instances from Data•6 minutes
- Conclusion: Constructing Classes•1 minute
- Introduction: Objects and Instances•1 minute
- Converting an Object to a String•3 minutes
- Special (dunderscore) Methods•4 minutes
- Instances as Return Values•3 minutes
- Sorting Lists of Instances•9 minutes
- Class Variables and Instance Variables•6 minutes
- Thinking About Classes and Instances•2 minutes
- Testing Classes•7 minutes
- Conclusion: Objects and Instances•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Optional - What Did You Use to Practice This Week?•30 minutes
1 programming assignment•Total 60 minutes
- Assessment - Classes•60 minutes
15 app items•Total 145 minutes
- Use the Runestone Practice Tool•5 minutes
- Introduction: Classes and Objects - The Basics•10 minutes
- Objects Revisited•10 minutes
- User Defined Classes•10 minutes
- Adding Parameters to the Constructor•10 minutes
- Adding Other Methods to a Class•10 minutes
- Public and Private Instance Variables•10 minutes
- Objects as Arguments and Parameters•10 minutes
- Converting an Object to a String•10 minutes
- Instances as Return Values•10 minutes
- Sorting Lists of Instances•10 minutes
- Class Variables and Instance Variables•10 minutes
- Thinking About Classes and Instances•10 minutes
- Testing Classes•10 minutes
- A Tamagotchi Game•10 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
- Optional Lab - Classes•60 minutes
What's included
12 videos1 assignment1 programming assignment9 app items1 ungraded lab
12 videos•Total 71 minutes
- Introduction: Inheritance•3 minutes
- Inheriting Variables and Methods•8 minutes
- Overriding Methods•11 minutes
- Invoking the Parent Class's Method•4 minutes
- Multiple Inheritance•3 minutes
- Conclusion: Inheritance•2 minutes
- Introduction: Decorators•0 minutes
- Function Wrapping and Decorators•20 minutes
- Decorators with Classes•8 minutes
- Property Decorators•8 minutes
- Method Decorators•4 minutes
- Outro: Decorators•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Optional - What Did You Use to Practice This Week?•30 minutes
1 programming assignment•Total 60 minutes
- Assessment - Inheritance•60 minutes
9 app items•Total 85 minutes
- Use the Runestone Practice Tool•5 minutes
- Introduction: Class Inheritance•10 minutes
- Inheriting Variables and Methods•10 minutes
- Overriding Methods•10 minutes
- Invoking the Parent Class's Method•10 minutes
- Multiple Inheritance•10 minutes
- Tamagotchi Revisited•10 minutes
- Function Wrapping and Decorators•10 minutes
- Decorators with Classes•10 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
- Optional Lab - Inheritance•60 minutes
What's included
17 videos2 readings3 programming assignments4 app items1 ungraded lab
17 videos•Total 100 minutes
- Introduction: More Advanced Functions•0 minutes
- Adding Documentation to Functions using Docstrings•4 minutes
- Dynamic Positional Arguments with *args•5 minutes
- Dynamic Keyword Arguments with **kwargs•7 minutes
- Decorators with arguments•5 minutes
- Built-in decorators in the functools module•12 minutes
- Outro: More Advanced Functions•1 minute
- Introduction: Exceptions•1 minute
- Exception Handling Flow-of-control•7 minutes
- Handling Different Exception Types•7 minutes
- Exception Instances•4 minutes
- When to use Try/Except•3 minutes
- Conclusion: Exceptions•1 minute
- Debugging with Break Points•7 minutes
- Introduction to Django•17 minutes
- How Django Uses Classes and Inheritance•14 minutes
- Introduction - Final Course Project•5 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- Course Feedback•10 minutes
- Keep Learning with Michigan Online•10 minutes
3 programming assignments•Total 180 minutes
- Assessment - Decorators•60 minutes
- Assessment - Exceptions•60 minutes
- Assessment - Project: Wheel of Python•60 minutes
4 app items•Total 35 minutes
- Use the Runestone Practice Tool•5 minutes
- Exceptions•10 minutes
- When to use Try/Except•10 minutes
- Standard Exceptions•10 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
- Optional Lab - Try Except•60 minutes
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Reviewed on May 4, 2020
Really loved it! Thanks a lot for this one again, learnt quite a bunch about the classes and how to use them - will definetely help me in my professional level quite soon!
Reviewed on Aug 5, 2020
All of these courses have been really great. Courses 3 and 4 though have been a lot shorter and therefore it feels like the improvement and experience are not as great as in the first two courses.
Reviewed on Oct 16, 2020
The course is really good for learning object oriented programming in python for we beginners. Thank you coursera and Fr. CRCE for giving a platform to learn these courses.
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