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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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Really fun but moved a bit too fast in some sections. Probably should have taken more notes.

(4/5)
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Omega Rae

United States

Gotta love a course that explains OOP on simple examples without philosophizing on whether it's the best or worst paradigm.

(5/5)
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Lord Honk

Germany

the scaling is horrible and the directions are half assed and leaves you guessing about what you are aculty supposed to be solving for, would be a great course if some of the direction we more to the point.

(1/5)
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Aiden

United States

explains the topic better then my college class.

(5/5)
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Zackery Spears

KY

Good course, goes over the intro concepts of OOP with some relatively difficult challenges; I enjoyed it a lot.

(5/5)
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Gary

United States

Very fun course. This makes me want to learn something more low-level like C++ or Java.

(5/5)
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Larry Chortle

United States

It was too fast between lessons, I had a real hard time to understand the concepts.

(4/5)
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Mauro Bueno

Brazil

Very helpful. This course really broadened my view on what you can do in programming.

(4/5)
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Justin F

Germany

I understand many things better than I thought I knew.

(5/5)
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Hamilton Carmisin Junior

Brazil

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