Following the Python Crash Course [Third Edition] Book by Eric Matthes.

Music: https://pixabay.com/music/upbeat-space-120280/

• 1.1 Running a Hello World Program

• 2.1 Variables
• 2.2 Strings
  • 2.2.1 Changing Case in a String with Methods
  • 2.2.2 Using Variables in Strings
  • 2.2.3 Avoiding Syntax Errors with Strings
• 2.3 Numbers
  • 2.3.1 Integers
  • 2.3.2 Floats
  • 2.3.3 Integers and Floats
  • 2.3.4 Underscores in Numbers
  • 2.3.5 Multiple Assignment
  • 2.3.6 Constants
• 2.4 Comments
  • 2.4.1 How Do You Write Comments
• 2.5 The Zen of Python
• Try It Yourself
  • Comments
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • The Zen of Python
  • Variables

• 3.1 What is a List
  • 3.1.1 Accessing Elements in a List
  • 3.1.2 Index Positions Start at 0 Not 1
  • 3.1.3 Using Individual Values from a List
• 3.2 Modifying Adding and Removing Elements
  • 3.2.1 Modifying Elements in a List
  • 3.2.2 Adding Elements to a List
    • 3.2.2.1 Appending Elements to the End of a List
    • 3.2.2.2 Inserting Elements into a List
  • 3.2.3 Removing Elements from a List
    • 3.2.3.1 Removing an Item Using the del Statement
    • 3.2.3.2 Removing an Item Using the pop Method
    • 3.2.3.3 Popping Items from Any Position in a List
    • 3.2.3.4 Removing an Item by Value
• 3.3 Organising a List
  • 3.3.1 Sorting a List Permanently with the sort Method
  • 3.3.2 Sorting a List Temporarily with the sorted Function
  • 3.3.3 Printing a List in Reverse Order
  • 3.3.4 Finding the Length of a List
• 3.4 Avoiding Index Errors When Working with Lists
• Try It Yourself
  • Avoiding Index Errors When Working with Lists
  • Modifying Adding and Removing Elements
  • Organising a List
  • What is a List

• 4.1 Looping Through an Entire List
  • 4.1.1 Doing More Work Within a for Loop
  • 4.1.2 Doing Something After a for Loop
• 4.2 Avoiding Indentation Errors
  • 4.2.1 Forgetting to Indent
  • 4.2.2 Forgetting to Indent Additional Lines
  • 4.2.3 Indenting Unnecessarily
  • 4.2.4 Indenting Unnecessarily After the Loop
  • 4.2.5 Forgetting the Colon
• 4.3 Making Numerical Lists
  • 4.3.1 Using the range Function
  • 4.3.2 Using range to Make a List of Numbers
  • 4.3.3 Simple Statistics with a List of Numbers
  • 4.3.4 List Comprehensions
• 4.4 Working with Part of a List
  • 4.4.1 Slicing a List
  • 4.4.2 Looping Through a Slice
  • 4.4.3 Copying a List
• 4.5 Tuples
  • 4.5.1 Defining a Tuple
  • 4.5.2 Looping Through All Values in a Tuple
  • 4.5.3 Writing Over a Tuple
• Try It Yourself
  • Avoiding Indentation Errors
  • Making Numerical Lists
  • Tuples
  • Working with Part of a List

• 5.1 A Simple Example
• 5.2 Conditional Tests
  • 5.2.1 Checking for Equality
  • 5.2.2 Ignoring Case When Checking for Equality
  • 5.2.3 Checking for Inequality
  • 5.2.4 Numerical Comparisons
  • 5.2.5 Checking Multiple Conditions
    • 5.2.5.1 Using and to Check Multiple Conditions
    • 5.2.5.2 Using or to Check Multiple Conditions
  • 5.2.6 Checking Whether a Value Is in a List
  • 5.2.7 Checking Wether a Value Is Not in a List
  • 5.2.8 Boolean Expressions
• 5.3 if Statements
  • 5.3.1 Simple if Statements
  • 5.3.2 if-else Statements
  • 5.3.3 The if-elif-else Chain
  • 5.3.4 Using Multiple elif Blocks
  • 5.3.5 Omitting the else Block
  • 5.3.6 Testing Multiple Conditions
• 5.4 Using if Statements with Lists
  • 5.4.1 Checking for Special Items
  • 5.4.2 Checking That a List Is Not Empty
  • 5.4.3 Using Multiple Lists
• 5.5 Styling Your if Statements
• Try It Yourself
  • Conditional Tests
  • if Statements
  • Styling Your if Statements
  • Using if Statements with Lists

• 6.1 A Simple Dictionary
• 6.2 Working with Dictionaries
  • 6.2.1 Accessing Values in a Dictionary
  • 6.2.2 Adding New Key-Value Pairs
  • 6.2.3 Starting with an Empty Dictionary
  • 6.2.4 Modifying Values in a Dictionary
  • 6.2.5 Removing Key-Value Pairs
  • 6.2.6 A Dictionary of Similar Objects
  • 6.2.7 Using get to Access Values
• 6.3 Looping Through a Dictionary
  • 6.3.1 Looping Through All Key-Value Pairs
  • 6.3.2 Looping Through All the Keys in a Dictionary
  • 6.3.3 Looping Through a Dictionary's Keys in a Particular Order
  • 6.3.4 Looping Through All Values in a Dictionary
• 6.4 Nesting
  • 6.4.1 A List of Dictionaries
  • 6.4.2 A List in a Dictionary
  • 6.4.3 A Dictionary in a Dictionary
• Try It Yourself
  • Looping Through a Dictionary
  • Nesting
  • Working with Dictionaries

• 7.1 How the input Function Works
  • 7.1.1 Writing Clear Prompts
  • 7.1.2 Using int to Accept Numerical Input
  • 7.1.3 The Modulo Operator
• 7.2 Introducing while Loops
  • 7.2.1 The while Loop in Action
  • 7.2.2 Letting the User Choose When to Quit
  • 7.2.3 Using a Flag
  • 7.2.4 Using break to Exit a Loop
  • 7.2.5 Using continue in a Loop
  • 7.2.6 Avoiding Infinite Loops
• 7.3 Using a while Loop with Lists and Dictionaries
  • 7.3.1 Moving Items from One List to Another
  • 7.3.2 Removing All Instances of Specific Values from a List
  • 7.3.3 Filling a Dictionary with User Input
• Try It Yourself
  • How the input Function Works
  • Introducing while Loops
  • Using a while Loop with Lists and Dictionaries

• 8.1 Defining a Function
  • 8.1.1 Passing Information to a Function
• 8.2 Passing Arguments
  • 8.2.1 Positional Arguments
    • 8.2.1.1 Multiple Function Calls
    • 8.2.1.2 Order Matters in Positional Arguments
  • 8.2.2 Keyword Arguments
  • 8.2.3 Default Values
  • 8.2.4 Equivalent Function Calls
  • 8.2.5 Avoiding Argument Errors
• 8.3 Return Values
  • 8.3.1 Returning a Simple Value
  • 8.3.2 Making an Argument Optional
  • 8.3.3 Returning a Dictionary
  • 8.3.4 Using a Function with a while Loop
• 8.4 Passing a List
  • 8.4.1 Modifying a List in a Function
• 8.5 Passing on Arbitrary Number of Arguments
  • 8.5.1 Mixing Positional and Arbitrary Arguments
  • 8.5.2 Using Arbitrary Keyword Arguments
• 8.6 Storing Your Functions in Modules
  • 8.6.1 Importing an Entire Module
  • 8.6.2 Importing Specific Functions
  • 8.6.3 Using as to Give a Function an Alias
  • 8.6.4 Using as to Give a Module an Alias
  • 8.6.5 Importing All Functions in a Module
• 8.7 Styling Functions
• Try It Yourself
  • Functions
  • Passing a List
  • Passing Arguments
  • Passing on Arbitrary Number of Arguments
  • Return Values
  • Storing Your Functions in Modules
  • Styling Functions

• 9.1 Creating and Using a Class
  • 9.1.1 Creating the Dog Class
  • 9.1.2 Making an Instance from a Class
    • 9.1.2.1 Calling Methods
    • 9.1.2.2 Creating Multiple Instances
• 9.2 Working with Classes and Instances
  • 9.2.1 The Car Class
  • 9.2.2 Setting a Default Value for an Attribute
  • 9.2.3 Modifying Attribute Values
    • 9.2.3.1 Modifying an Attribute's Value Directly
    • 9.2.3.2 Modifying an Attribute's Value Through a Method
    • 9.2.3.3 Incrementing an Attribute's Value Through a Method
• 9.3 Inheritance
  • 9.3.1 The init Method for a Child Class
  • 9.3.2 Defining Attributes and Methods for the Child Class
  • 9.3.3 Overriding Methods from the Parent Class
  • 9.3.4 Instances as Attributes
• 9.4 Importing Classes
  • 9.4.1 Importing a Single Class
  • 9.4.2 Storing Multiple Classes in a Module
  • 9.4.3 Importing Multiple Classes from a Module
  • 9.4.4 Importing an Entire Module
  • 9.4.5 Importing a Module into a Module
• 9.5 The Python Standard Library
• Try It Yourself
  • Creating and Using a Class
  • Importing Classes
  • Inheritance
  • The Python Standard Library
  • Working with Classes and Instances

• 10.1 Reading from a File
  • 10.1.1 Reading the Contents of a File
  • 10.1.2 Relative and Absolute File Paths
  • 10.1.3 Accessing a Files Lines
  • 10.1.4 Working with a Files Contents
  • 10.1.5 Large Files One Million Digits
  • 10.1.6 Is Your Birthday Contained in Pi
• 10.2 Writing to a File
  • 10.2.1 Writing a Single Line
  • 10.2.2 Writing Multiple Lines
• 10.3 Exceptions
  • 10.3.1 Handling the ZeroDivisionError Exception
  • 10.3.2 Using try-except Blocks
  • 10.3.3 Using Exceptions to Prevent Crashes
  • 10.3.4 The else Block
  • 10.3.5 Handling the FileNotFoundError Exception
  • 10.3.6 Analysing Text
  • 10.3.7 Working with Multiple Files
  • 10.3.8 Failing Silently
• 10.4 Storing Data
  • 10.4.1 Using json.dumps and json.loads
  • 10.4.2 Saving and Reading UserGenerated Data
  • 10.4.3 Refactoring
• Try It Yourself
  • Exceptions
  • Reading from a File
  • Storing Data
  • Writing to a File

• 11.1 Installing Pytest with Pip
  • 11.1.1 Updating pip
  • 11.1.2 Installing pytest
• 11.2 Testing a Function
  • 11.2.1 A Passing Test
  • 11.2.2 A Failing Test
  • 11.2.3 Responding to a Failed Test
  • 11.2.4 Adding New Tests
• 11.3 Testing a Class
  • 11.3.1 A Variety of Assertions
  • 11.3.2 A Class to Test
  • 11.3.3 Testing the AnonymousSurvey Class
  • 11.3.4 Using Fixtures
• Try It Yourself
  • Testing a Class
  • Testing a Function

• 12.1 Planning Your Project
• 12.2 Starting the Game Project
  • 12.2.1 Creating a Pygame Window and Responding to User Input
  • 12.2.2 Controlling the Frame Rate
  • 12.2.3 Setting the Background Colour
  • 12.2.4 Creating a Settings Class
• 12.3 Adding the Ship Image
  • 12.3.1 Creating the Ship Class
  • 12.3.2 Drawing the Ship to the Screen
• 12.4 Refactoring: The checkevents and updatescreen Methods
  • 12.4.1 The checkevents Method
  • 12.4.2 The updatescreen Method
• 12.5 Piloting the Ship
  • 12.5.1 Responding to a Keypress
  • 12.5.2 Allowing Continuous Movement
  • 12.5.3 Moving Both Left and Right
  • 12.5.4 Adjusting the Ships Speed
  • 12.5.5 Limiting the Ships Range
  • 12.5.6 Refactoring checkevents
  • 12.5.7 Pressing Q to Quit
  • 15.5.8 Running the Game in Fullscreen Mode
• 12.6 Shooting Bullets
  • 12.6.1 Adding the Bullet Settings
  • 12.6.2 Creating the Bullet Class
  • 12.6.3 Storing Bullets in a Group
  • 12.6.4 Firing Bullets
  • 12.6.5 Deleting Old Bullets
  • 12.6.6 Limiting the Number of Bullets
  • 12.6.7 Creating the updatebullets Method
• Try It Yourself

• 13.1 Reviewing the Project
• 13.2 Creating the First Alien
  • 13.2.1 Creating the Alien Class
  • 13.2.2 Creating an Instance of the Alien
• 13.3 Building the Alien Fleet
  • 13.3.1 Creating a Row of Aliens
  • 13.3.2 Refactoring createfleet
  • 13.3.3 Adding Rows
• 13.4 Making the Fleet Move
  • 13.4.1 Moving the Aliens Right
  • 13.4.2 Creating Settings for Fleet Direction
  • 13.4.3 Checking Whether an Alien Has Hit the Edge
  • 13.4.4 Dropping the Fleet and Changing Direction
• 13.5 Shooting Aliens
  • 13.5.1 Detecting Bullet Collisions
  • 13.5.2 Repopulating the Fleet
  • 13.5.3 Refactoring updatebullets
• 13.6 Ending the Game
  • 13.6.1 Detecting Alien-Ship Collisions
  • 13.6.2 Responding to AlienShip Collisions
  • 13.6.3 Aliens That Reach the Bottom of the Screen
  • 13.6.4 Game Over
  • 13.6.5 Identifying When Parts of the Game Should Run
• Try It Yourself

• 14.1 Adding the Play Button
  • 14.1.1 Creating a Button Class
  • 14.1.2 Drawing the Button to the Screen
  • 14.1.3 Starting the Game
  • 14.1.4 Resetting the Game
  • 14.1.5 Deactivating the Play Button
  • 14.1.6 Hiding the Mouse Cursor
• 14.2 Leveling Up
  • 14.2.1 Modifying the Speed Settings
  • 14.2.2 Resetting the Speed
• 14.3 Scoring
  • 14.3.1 Displaying the Score
  • 14.3.2 Making a Scoreboard
  • 14.3.3 Updating the Score as Aliens Are Shot Down
  • 14.3.4 Resetting the Score
  • 14.3.5 Making Sure to Score All Hits
  • 14.3.6 Increasing Point Values
  • 14.3.7 Rounding the Score
  • 14.3.8 High Scores
  • 14.3.9 Displaying the Level
• Try It Yourself

• 15.1 Installing Matplotlib
• 15.2 Plotting a Simple Line Graph
  • 15.2.1 Changing the Label Type and Line Thickness
  • 15.2.2 Correcting the Plot
  • 15.2.3 Using Builtin Styles
  • 15.2.4 Plotting and Styling Individual Points with scatter
  • 15.2.5 Plotting a Series of Points with scatter
  • 15.2.6 Calculating Data Automatically
  • 15.2.7 Customising Tick Labels
  • 15.2.8 Defining Custom Colours
  • 15.2.9 Using a Colourmap
  • 15.2.10 Saving Your Plots Automatically
• 15.3 Random Walks
  • 15.3.1 Creating the RandomWalk Class
  • 15.3.2 Choosing Directions
  • 15.3.3 Plotting the Random Walk
  • 15.3.4 Generating Multiple Random Walks
  • 15.3.5 Styling the Walk
    • 15.3.5.1 Colouring the Points
    • 15.3.5.2 Plotting the Starting and Ending Points
    • 15.3.5.3 Cleaning Up the Axes
    • 15.3.5.4 Adding Plot Points
    • 15.3.5.5 Altering the Size to Fill the Screen
• 15.4 Rolling Dice with Plotly
  • 15.4.1 Installing Plotly
  • 15.4.2 Creating the Die Class
  • 15.4.3 Rolling the Die
  • 15.4.4 Analysing the Results
  • 15.4.5 Making a Histogram
  • 15.4.6 Customising the Plot
  • 15.4.7 Rolling Two Dice
  • 15.4.8 Further Customisations
  • 15.4.9 Rolling Dice of Different Sizes
• Try It Yourself

• 16.1 The CSV File Format
  • 16.1.1 Parsing the CSV File Headers
  • 16.1.2 Printing the Headers and Their Positions
  • 16.1.3 Extracting and Reading Data
  • 16.1.4 Plotting Data in a Temperature Chart
  • 16.1.5 The datetime Module
  • 16.1.6 Plotting Dates
  • 16.1.7 Plotting a Longer Timeframe
  • 16.1.8 Plotting a Second Data Series
  • 16.1.9 Shading an Area in the Chart
  • 16.1.10 Error Checking
  • 16.1.11 Downloading Your Own Data
• 16.2 Mapping Global Datasets: GeoJSON Format
  • 16.2.1 Examining GeoJSON Data
  • 16.2.2 Making a List of All Earthquakes
  • 16.2.3 Extracting Magnitudes
  • 16.2.4 Extracting Location Data
  • 16.2.5 Building a World Map
  • 16.2.6 Representing Magnitudes
  • 16.2.7 Customising Marker Colours
  • 16.2.8 Other Color Scales
  • 16.2.9 Adding Hover Text
• Try It Yourself
• weather_data

• 17.1 Using an API
  • 17.1.1 Requesting Data Using an API Call
  • 17.1.2 Installing Requests
  • 17.1.3 Processing an API Response
  • 17.1.4 Working with the Response Dictionary
  • 17.1.5 Summarising the Top Repositories
• 17.2 Visualising Repositories Using Plotly
  • 17.2.1 Styling the Chart
  • 17.2.2 Adding Custom Tooltips
  • 17.2.3 Adding Clickable Links
  • 17.2.4 Customising Marker Colours
• 17.3 The Hacker News API
• Try It Yourself

• 18.1 Setting Up a Project
  • 18.1.1 Writing a Spec
  • 18.1.2 Creating a Virtual Environment
  • 18.1.3 Activating the Virtual Environment
  • 18.1.4 Installing Django
  • 18.1.5 Creating a Project in Django
  • 18.1.6 Creating the Database
  • 18.1.7 Viewing the Project
• 18.2 Starting an App
  • 18.2.1 Defining Models
  • 18.2.2 Activating Models
  • 18.2.3 The Django Admin Site
    • 18.2.3.1 Setting Up a Superuser
    • 18.2.3.2 Registering a Model with the Admin Site
    • 18.2.3.3 Adding Topics
  • 18.2.4 Defining the Entry Model
  • 18.2.5 Migrating the Entry Model
  • 18.2.6 Registering Entry with the Admin Site
  • 18.2.7 The Django Shell
• 18.3 Making Pages: The Learning Log Home Page
  • 18.3.1 Mapping a URL
    • learning_logs
    • ll_project
  • 18.3.2 Writing a View
  • 18.3.3 Writing a Template
    • templates
    • learning_logs
• 18.4 Building Additional Pages
  • 18.4.1 Template Inheritance
    • 18.4.1.1 The Parent Template
    • 18.4.1.2 The Child Template
  • 18.4.2 The Topics Page
    • 18.4.2.1 The Topics URL Pattern
      • learning_logs
    • 18.4.2.2 The Topics View
    • 18.4.2.3 The Topics Template
  • 18.4.3 Individual Topic Pages
    • 18.4.3.1 The Topic URL Pattern
      • learning_logs
    • 18.4.3.2 The Topic View
    • 18.4.3.3 The Topic Template
    • 18.4.3.4 Links from the Topics Page
• Try It Yourself

• 19.1 Allowing Users to Enter Data
  • 19.1.1 Adding New Topics
    • 19.1.1.1 The Topic ModelForm
    • 19.1.1.2 The new_topic URL
      • learning_logs
    • 19.1.1.3 The new_topic View Function
    • 19.1.1.4 The new_topic Template
    • 19.1.1.5 Linking to the new_topic Page
    • 19.1.2 Adding New Entries
      • 19.1.2.1 The Entry ModelForm
      • 19.1.2.2 The new_entry URL
        • learning_logs
      • 19.1.2.3 The new_entry View Function
      • 19.1.2.4 The new_entry Template
      • 19.1.2.5 Linking to the new_entry Page
    • 19.1.3 Editing Entries
      • 19.1.3.1 The edit_entry URL
        • learning_logs
      • 19.1.3.2 The edit_entry View Function
      • 19.1.3.3 The edit_entry Template
      • 19.1.3.4 Linking to the edit_entry Page
• 19.2 Setting Up User Accounts
  • 19.2.1 The accounts App
    • 19.2.1.2 Including the URLs from accounts
      • ll_project
  • 19.2.2 The Login Page
    • 19.2.2.1 The login Template
      • accounts
        • templates
          • registration
    • 19.2.2.2 The LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Setting
    • 19.2.2.3 Linking to the Login Page
    • accounts
  • 19.2.3 Logging Out
    • 19.2.3.2 The LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Setting
  • 19.2.4 The Registration Page
    • 19.2.4.1 The register URL
      • accounts
    • 19.2.4.2 The register View Function
      • accounts
    • 19.2.4.3 The register Template
      • accounts
        • templates
          • registration
    • 19.2.4.4 Linking to the Registration Page
• 19.3 Allowing Users to Own Their Data
  • 19.3.1 Restricting Access with atlogin_required
    • 19.3.1.1 Restricting Access to the Topics Page
      • learning_logs
    • 19.3.1.2 Restricting Access Throughout Learning Log
      • learning_logs
  • 19.3.2 Connecting Data to Certain Users
    • 19.3.2.1 Modifying the Topic Model
    • 19.3.2.2 Identifying Existing Users
    • 19.3.2.3 Migrating the Database
  • 19.3.3 Restricting Topics Access to Appropriate Users
    • learning_logs
  • 19.3.4 Protecting a Users Topics
    • learning_logs
  • 19.3.5 Protecting the edit_entry Page
    • learning_logs
  • 19.3.6 Associating New Topics with the Current User
    • learning_logs
• Try It Yourself

• 20.1 Styling Learning Log
  • 20.1.1 The django-bootstrap5 App
  • 20.1.3 Styling the Home Page Using a Jumbotron
  • 20.1.4 Styling the Login Page
  • 20.1.5 Styling the Topics Page
  • 20.1.6 Styling the Entries on the Topic Page
• 20.2 Deploying Learning Log
  • 20.2.10 Pushing to Platform.sh
  • 20.2.11 Viewing the Live Project
  • 20.2.12 Refining the Platform.sh Deployment
    • 20.2.12.1 Creating a Superuser on Platform.sh
    • 20.2.12.2 Securing the Live Project
  • 20.2.13 Creating Custom Error Pages
    • 20.2.13.1 Making Custom Templates
      • learning_logs
  • 20.2.14 Deleting a Project on Platform.sh
  • 20.2.1 Making a Platform.sh Account
  • 20.2.2 Installing the Platform.sh CLI
  • 20.2.3 Installing platformshconfig
  • 20.2.4 Creating a requirements.txt File
  • 20.2.5 Additional Deployment Requirements
  • 20.2.6 Adding Configuration Files
    • 20.2.6.1 Making Hidden Files Visible
    • 20.2.6.2 The .platform.app.yaml Configuration File
    • 20.2.6.3 The routes.yaml Configuration File
    • 20.2.6.4 The services.yaml Configuration File
  • 20.2.7 Modifying settings.py for Platform.sh
  • 20.2.8 Using Git to Track the Projects Files
    • 20.2.8.1 Installing Git
    • 20.2.8.2 Configuring Git
    • 20.2.8.3 Ignoring Files
    • 20.2.8.4 Committing the Project
  • 20.2.9 Creating a Project on Platform.sh
• Try It Yourself

• bw_sheets
  • individual_sheets_bw
• color_sheets
  • individual_sheets_color

• alien_invasion
• blog
• learning_log
• meal_planner
• pizza_project