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Complete Python Course: From Zero to Professional

This is a complete, beginner-friendly Python course designed by Amol Shukla to take you from absolute zero to professional-level Python. Every lesson lives on its own page with easy-to-follow notes, runnable code, real console output, code-visualization tips, professional tricks, 20-question code quiz, and 25 LeetCode-style interactive coding challenges with an in-browser WebAssembly Python judge.

Instructor: Amol Shukla

Course Modules

Module 1

Module 1: Python Fundamentals

Set up Python, write your first program, and master variables, data types, strings, and operators with visual memory models.

Lesson 1: Hello, Python! Setup & Your First Program

Installing Python, the REPL, print statements, comments, and why indentation matters.

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Lesson 2: Variables, Data Types & Input/Output

The five core data types (int, float, str, bool, None), dynamic typing, type casting, memory references, and reading standard input.

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Lesson 3: Strings — Slicing, Methods & f-Strings

String indexing and slicing, powerful string methods, and modern formatted strings.

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Lesson 4: Operators & Expressions

Arithmetic, comparison, logical, and assignment operators — plus expression evaluation order.

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Module 2

Module 2: Control Flow

Make decisions with conditionals, repeat work with loops, and write elegant comprehensions.

Lesson 5: Conditional Branches & Loops

Evaluating truth tables, if/elif/else routing, for and while loops, break, and continue.

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Lesson 6: Loop Control, Nested Loops & The else Clause

Master break, continue, pass, loop else clauses, and nested loops with trace tables.

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Lesson 7: Comprehensions — Clean, Fast Loops

Build lists, dicts, and sets in one elegant line with comprehensions and generator expressions.

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Module 3

Module 3: Data Structures

Master lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries, and the powerful tools in the collections module.

Lesson 8: Lists & Tuples

Mutable lists, immutable tuples, slicing, sorting, and common list methods.

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Lesson 9: Sets & Dictionaries

Unordered sets for lightning-fast membership, and key-value dictionaries for real-world data.

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Lesson 10: Advanced Collections — Counter, defaultdict & deque

Supercharge your data with Counter, defaultdict, deque, and namedtuple from the collections module.

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Lesson 11: Nested Structures, Aliasing & Copies

Build nested dicts and lists, understand how references behave, and copy safely.

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Module 4

Module 4: Functions & Modularity

Write reusable functions, lambdas, decorators, and organize code into modules and packages.

Lesson 12: Functions — Reusable Building Blocks

Define functions, parameters, default arguments, return values, and docstrings.

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Lesson 13: Lambda, *args & **kwargs

Anonymous one-line functions and flexible functions that accept any number of arguments.

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Lesson 14: Scope, Closures & Decorators

LEGB scoping rules, closures that remember, and decorators that wrap functions with extra behavior.

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Lesson 15: Modules, Packages & Imports

Organize code into files, import between them, use the __name__ guard, and install packages with pip.

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Module 5

Module 5: Object-Oriented Python

Model the real world with classes, inheritance, encapsulation, magic methods, and dataclasses.

Lesson 16: Classes, Instances & Inheritance

Object structure, __init__ constructor, instance parameters, methods, and parent-child overrides.

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Lesson 17: Inheritance & Polymorphism

Deep-dive into inheritance, method overriding, polymorphism, isinstance, and the MRO.

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Lesson 18: Encapsulation, Properties & Magic Methods

Private attributes, @property for smart access, and dunder methods that customize objects.

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Lesson 19: Dataclasses & Modern OOP

Write less boilerplate with @dataclass, frozen data, and professional OOP best practices.

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Module 6

Module 6: Files, Errors & Professional Python

Handle files, tame errors, write generators, work with JSON, test like a pro, and build a full CLI project.

Lesson 20: File Handling & Context Managers

Read and write files safely with the with statement, work with paths, and handle CSV data.

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Lesson 21: Exception Handling — Fail Gracefully

try/except/else/finally, raising your own errors, and writing code that never crashes the user.

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Lesson 22: Iterators, Generators & itertools

Lazy iteration with yield, memory-efficient pipelines, and the itertools toolbox.

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Lesson 23: JSON & Working with Data

Serialize Python objects to JSON, load API data, and build real-world data workflows.

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Lesson 24: Testing & Debugging Like a Pro

assert, pytest, the debugger, and logging — write code that proves itself.

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Lesson 25: Capstone — Build a CLI Expense Tracker

Bring everything together: functions, dicts, files, JSON, and a menu loop in one complete project.

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