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This class is an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of object oriented programming. You will learn how these concepts can be quickly and cleanly implemented in Python. The lectures and labs are clear and to the point - EXCELLENT instructor.
Mike Clapper, Oklahoma, USA
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I'm going to use what I have learned from this course right away. I have a current application and an older one that I have been nursing through my entire Python life that I will remake and refactor.
Tipton Cole, Austin, Texas, USA
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I liked the course very much. Expect to kickstart your OOP journey ahead of an average beginner. Final verdict: recommended.
Konstantin Baikov, Nuremberg , Germany
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Right from the start of teaching myself Python, I was wishing for some learning material that was more like mentoring and less like instructions. For me, Pythonic Object-Oriented Programming is just that.
Bryan Stutts, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA
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This course is by far the most exhaustive OOP course in Python I've
taken... If you're interested in learning about OOP in Python, and
even if you think you know everything there is, I highly recommend
taking this course.
Hana Khan, Santa Clara, California, USA
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The course is a great introduction to object-oriented programming in
Python. I was pleased with your emphasis on the Single Responsibility
Principle and Liskov Substitution Principles - adherence to these two
guiding principles definitely leads to more robust, testable
solutions... There is a need for this course out there.
Michael Moch, Sachse, Texas, USA
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Previous Python courses I took teach OOP in a 1 dimensional way... the
truth is, in Python you are free to do OOP the way you like. The instructor
teaches you this freedom while also teaching you to be responsible
about it.
Hassen Ben Tanfous, Hammam Chott, Tunisia
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You have assembled a really interesting, in-depth and useful course
with what I now know to be your trademark qualities of enthusiasm,
attention to detail, clarity and erudition.
Tony Holdroyd, Gravesend, United Kingdom
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I felt this course is much needed to really understand the power of
Python as an object oriented programming language. I read a lot about
Python but didn't find any such course where you learn some really
interesting concepts with such ease.
Kapil Gupta, New Delhi, India
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This course is awesome! The
instructor has the unique ability to make abstract (and
difficult) concepts so understandable... I highly recommend
this course to anyone who wants to not only use OOP, but also
to understand what goes on under the hood and makes a powerful
Python pattern.
John Tekdek, Milton Keynes, England
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These labs are one of the best learning experiences I've ever
encountered for programming. Other courses and books feel like
parroting or copying code. The instructor gives you creative space to practice
developing and problem solving.
Chris Lesage, Montreal, Quebec Canada
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Even the structure of the labs provided helps me to see better
what it is to be "thinking like a programmer".
Bryan Stutts, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA
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The lectures and labs are
clear and to the point - EXCELLENT instructor.
Mike Clapper, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
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Your dataclasses video was AWESOME, and I'm saying that after watching
Raymond Hettinger's video on dataclasses.
Konstantin Baikov, Nuremberg, Germany
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This course is by far the most exhaustive OOP course in Python I've
taken... If you're interested in learning about OOP in Python, and
even if you think you know everything there is, I highly recommend
taking this course.
Hana Khan, Santa Clara, California, USA
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Final verdict: recommended.
Konstantin Baikov, Nuremberg, Germany
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This is a GREAT course. The videos are well-paced, clear and concise, and yet thorough in the material they cover.
Michael Moch, Texas, USA
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After you take this course,
you'll be confidently doing test-driven development like a
pro!
Hana Khan, California, USA
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I just completed the full course
and it's awesome... I wish you'll continue doing such courses
and help us increasing our Python knowledge.
Kapil Gupta, Delhi, India
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You will gain valuable new skills that will demonstrably
lighten the load, and relieve unnecessary burden from your
programming process. Improve your mental state and get
healthy with Test-Driven Python.
Bryan Stutts, Colorado, USA
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As with all courses from Powerful Python, it clearly
sets the problem you are solving and guides you step by
step to your first "Aha" moments. The videos are detailed
and in-depth enough to warrant a second re-watch after you
have the main concepts settled.
Konstantin Baikov, Nuernberg, Germany
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Another thumbs-up! For some time, I was looking for resources useful
for people like me, wishing to learn more about Python and not the
basics over and over. Teachers like you are a big BIG
blessing. THANKS!
Javier Novoak, Mexico City
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The course progression is clean,
there isn't any long stretches or missing concepts. Compact
and universally applicable concepts, most likely the only
Python TDD course and reference you'll need for years.
Hassen Ben Tanfous, Tunisia
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This course covers a lot of
ground, not only explaining mechanics and techniques of test
driven development... but also delving into strategies.
Tipton Cole, Texas, USA
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This is a very well presented and structured course on
unit testing and test-driven development. The instructor goes to
great lengths... His obvious enthusiasm and passion is
both infectious, and motivating. The practical coding
exercises are well written.
Tony Holdroyd, Gravesend, UK
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It's one of the finest courses... covering from the
basics, and ensuring you get a full professional hand on
having fully tested Python code. The lesson on mocking is
WONDERFUL.
Kapil Gupta, Delhi, India
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It's clear that the instructor is
passionate... This course thoroughly covers the pros and cons
and appropriate use cases for various types of tests so you
know exactly when to use what type of test for your
code...
Most of all, this course helped me unlock some very
powerful abilities of Python that I didn't even know
about. After you take this course, you'll be confidently doing
test-driven development like a pro!
Hana Khan, California, USA
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As someone who has used and practiced TDD for years, I
highly recommend it to anyone starting down the road to TDD
mastery. If you're experienced developer familiar with nUnit testing
but adopting Python as your new language, I also recommend this
course.
Michael Moch, Texas, USA
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The smooth presentation and progressive exercises helped to cement these concepts for me...
The functionality around decorators is particularly well presented - taking one from basic to advanced usage.
Asif Zubair, Memphis
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Once again, Thank you for giving me a superpower :) Unit
testing gives me the discipline to write code, and the
reward I am getting is highly valuable. All of the course
is greatly structured... Labs are designed perfectly.
Shankar Jha, Bangalore, India
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The course is excellent value for money, especially with the
bonuses. Recommended.
Tony Holdroyd, Gravesend, UK.
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The instructor does an excellent job of explaining this compelling and often
confusing feature of Python. The leisurely pace of the course makes it
easy to follow. I now feel confident in using generators to scale my
code. Thanks!
John Tekdek, Milton Keynes, England
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I am completely amazed by the coroutine concept. I
did not read ANYTHING like this about generators ANYWHERE ELSE!
Shankar Jha, Bangalore, India
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An EXCELLENT course... explaining a variety of concepts and
techniques, including the concepts and uses of coroutines,
iterators and comprehensions. Thoroughly recommended!
Tony Holdroyd, Gravesend, UK
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Another excellent Python class from an excellent instructor.
Mike Clapper, Oklahoma, USA
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The course went deep into Python GEMS... Everytime I go
over a course by this instructor, I learn a lot. Which
very much helps me in my day to day Python development.
Kapil Gupta, Gurgaon, India
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This wonderful course... Greatly structured... Good for advanced
programmers who want to level up their skills.
Shankar Jha, Bangalore, India
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Clearly illustrates concepts in Python scalability... Clear lectures,
meaningful lab exercises... students will gain invaluable insight into
Python internals.
Mike Clapper, Oklahoma, USA
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Once again, Thank you for making me a seasoned Python developer :)
Shankar Jha, Bangalore, India
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The course is excellent value for money, especially with the
bonuses. Recommended.
Tony Holdroyd, Gravesend, UK.
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Your book is absolutely amazing and your ability to articulate clear explanations for advanced concepts is unlike any I have ever seen in any Programming book. Thanks again for writing such a good and thought provoking book.
Armando Someillan
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Your book is a must have and must read for every Python developer.
Jorge Carlos Franco, Italy
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Feels like Neo learning jujitsu in the Matrix.
John Beauford
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Powerful Python is already helping me get huge optimization
gains. When's the next edition coming out?
Timothy Dobbins
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It's direct. Goes right for a couple of subjects that have real-world relevance.
Chuck Staples, Maine, USA
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A lot of advanced and useful Python features condensed in a single book.
Giampaolo Mancini, Italy
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I just wanted to let you know what an excellent book this is. I'm a self taught developer and after having done badly at some interviews I decided to buy your book. It covers so many of the interview questions I'd got wrong previously...
I keep going back to your book to learn python. I've actually recommended it as an interview guide to some of my friends.
Fahad Qazi, London, UK
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Thanks. Keep up the good work. Your chapter on decorators is the best I have seen on that topic.
Leon Tietz, Minnesota, USA
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What have I found good and valuable about the book so far? Everything honestly. The clear explanations, solid code examples have really helped me advance as a Python coder. Thank you! It has really helped me grasp some advanced concepts that I felt were beyond my abilities.
Nick S., Colorado, USA
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Only a couple chapters in so far but already loving the book. Generators are a game changer.
Ben Randerson, Aberdeen, UK
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I'm finding your book very insightful and useful and am very much looking forward to the 3rd edition.
I'm one of those who struggled with decorators prior to reading your
book, but I have greatly benefitted from your rich examples and your
extremely clear explanations.
Yours is one of the few books I keep on my desk.I'm finding your book very insightful and useful... I have greatly benefitted from your rich examples and your extremely clear explanations. Yours is one of the few books I keep on my desk.
Tony Holdroyd, Gravesend, UK
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LOVING Powerful Python so far, BTW. I started teaching myself
Python a while ago and I totally dug the concept of generators. It
reminded me of Unix pipes -- I started using Unix in the 70's -- and
the generators basically let you construct "pipelines" of functions.
Very cool, much better way to express the concept, awesome for
scalability. But I was a bit hazy on some of the details. PP
clarified that for me, and several other features too. And I'm only
up to chapter 3. :-)
Gary Fritz, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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Thank you for your book. It is packed with great information, and even better that information is presented in an easy to understand manner.
It took approximately a month to read from cover to cover, and I have
already begun implementing the vast majority of the subjects you
covered!
I gave your book five stars.
Jon Macpherson
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This is among the best books available for taking your Python skills to the next level. I have read many books on Python programming in a quest to find intermediate level instruction. I feel there are very few books which offer the sort of insights needed to really improve skills. This is one of the few I can highly recommend for those who are struggling to achieve intermediate skill in Python. The author clearly has a mastery of the topic and has an ability to convey it in and understandable way.
Darrell Fee, USA
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Just what I needed. Very much applicable to where I'm at with Python today and taking my coding to the next level.
I got a ton of insight with this book. It really brought to light how magic methods can be used to develop things like Pandas. It opened my eyes to how awesome decorators can be!
The classes section, logging, and testing were awesome. I need to go back over the book again and work thru some of the techniques that are talked about so I can get used to using them every day.
I currently do a lot of implementation work with data and SQL Server. Anything outside of SQL that I do, I do in Python. A problem for me has been that I get so many odd type jobs that my code is pretty spread out across a broad range of functionality. I've been wanting to stream line it, and write my code in a way that it can scale up.
At my job, I'm writing, testing, implementing, and maintaining my own Python code. I don't get code reviews, and so it's hard to know if I'm writing good code or not cause I'm not getting that critique from my betters.
I think you have definitely given me some broad ideas on being able to scale, and some things that I should strive for in my code.
Josiah Allen, USA
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This book taught me a great deal and was enjoyable to read.
I have been developing with Python for 5-6 years and considered myself well versed in the language. This book taught me a great deal and was enjoyable to read. The complex patterns are explained well with enough detail to understand but not too much to confuse the reader. After having the book for one day I recommended it to my team and will make it required reading for our interns and junior devs.
Note: I purchased this book and did not receive anything for this review.
Aaron (not the author), USA
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Great Book. By far one of the best books out there. No nonsense, just great information.
Edward Finstein, United States
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Great coverage not offered in other books.
Tony, United States
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Amazing work!
I wish all technical books could be this good. As an instructor and researcher, I read dozens a year and this is pure platinum. Thanks, Aaron!
Adam Breindel, United States
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Truly next-level Python. Concise to the point and practical. Will take your python to the next level.
Amado, United States
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Great Python book. One of my favorite Python books that show great examples on using the language effectively.
Bryant Biggs, United States
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Great book. A lot of great tips for those beyond a beginner.
Jeff Schafer, United States
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Five Stars. Awesome book, helpful in moving beyond basic coding.
Mark Vallarino, USA
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Instant productivity gains.
These are the best pages you will find on Python if you're an experienced programmer looking to make a leap in your python skills. The entire book takes only a few days to read, and it's very enjoyable. I'm already seeing the rewards in my code as I have shifted from writing simple scripts with 1-2 normal functions to writing a unit-tested class which creates its own decorated functions at runtime (data-driven), overloads operators, and properly handles and throws exceptions. Nowhere else have I found so many of python's unique features explained so clearly and succinctly as I have in Powerful Python.
Carolyn R., USA
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A great attribute of this book are the practical examples.
I've been programming with Python for about 1.5 years and this book is right up my alley. A great attribute of this book are the practical examples, and comments on Python 2 vs 3 syntax changes. Aaron describes things in great detail so implementing his ideas is very natural.
Mike Shumko, USA
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Great book, great lecturer.
Took a session with Aaron as OSCON recently - very hands on, great
instructor. He handed out his book to all of us - it has a lot of
useful examples and gives some great tips on how to refine your Python
skills and bring your coding to the next level. If you want to move
from beginner python and go to intermediate/advanced topics, this book
is perfect for you.
Gary Colello, USA
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This book has a lot of useful examples and gives some great tips on how to refine your Python skills and bring your coding to the next level. If you want to move from beginner Python and go to intermediate/advanced topics, this book is perfect for you.
Anonymous reviewer
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Takes your Python coding skills from average to awesome.
This man knows what he's doing. I have been reading his online stuff and have taken classes with him. And now this book. OH, THIS BOOK!
He makes quick work of some advanced and esoteric topics. If you want to be a Python programmer a cut above everyone else, and ace the tough topics in interviews, this is the one for you.
Hugh Reader, USA
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Five Stars. I've studied this deeply, the author has been a big contributor to my lifetime development in software engineering.
Refun, USA
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Take your Python skills to the next level. Looking to go beyond the basics, to broaden and deepen your Python skills? This is the book for you. Highly recommended!
Michael Herman, USA
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Move to this book if you already master the basics.
There are very few books that can bridge the gap between basics and advanced level and this is one of them. If you already feel comfortable with lists, dictionaries and all the basics, this book will take you to the next level. However, I would recommend reading this book AND using your python interpreter to repeat all the examples in the book and lastly make some notes like writing down a code snippet so you can always remember and don't need to read it all over again.
Rodrigo Albuquerque, UK
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I think it's a pretty fine book.
Chip Warden, Kansas City, USA
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If you have enough basics of Python, this should be you next read.
This is really good for intermediate Python programmers, who have mastered the basics and are looking for new ideas on various new modules and features out in Python. Also the author explains few gotchas and secrets from the woods to make you a sound Python pro.
Andrew, UK
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Excellent book. A great book that will help in real world production-level programming. I found the explanation of some complex topics very easy to understand. An example of this are the chapters on decorators and testing. I would recommend this book to anybody who already knows Python and wants to take it to the next level. While they are other books in the market that have more detail, the selling point of this book is that it is simple yet highly effective. The author shares a lot of best practices used in the real world which I’ve noticed that a lot of books leave out.
Raul, Canada
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Advanced Python! Great book, Python finally explained in an advanced and in-depth way, is not suitable for beginners. You need to have some basics.
Alex, Italy
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Five Stars. This is really good book.
Marcin Adamowicz, UK
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Great book. Warmly recommended to all Pythonistas.
Giovanni, UK
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This book is exactly what I'm looking for. I found a few code examples
on my facebook page yesterday and it fires up my passion to code
immediately. Today, I browsed the chapter index and just finish
reading "Advanced Functions". It's exactly what I need. It skips the
basic syntax and focuses on the areas where separate top developers
from the rest. In fact, there aren't many topics in these core
areas. However, this book will help both engineers and EMs think in
Python cleverly when attacking all kinds of devOps problems.
Shan Jing, Los Angeles, CA