Reuven Lerner's Object-orient Python
Overview
I recently completed Reuven Lerner’s Object-orient Python self pace course. My goal was to better understand how to do OOP using Python. For context, I know of OOP but never could understand it well enough to use in my programs.
Course Topics
Taken from Reuven’s Overview:
Through numerous video lessons and exercises, this course will teach you what you need in order to take advantage of Python’s objects. I cover such topics as:
- What is an object?
- Setting and retrieving attributes
- Creating classes
- The role of
__init__ - The role of self
- Writing and calling methods
- Attribute search, and why we care
- Class attributes
- Inheritance
Impressions
First of all I like the self pace nature and that Reuven provided the Jupyter Notebook and slides. Also the videos are a manageable length around 15 minutes. The first 6 sections I was able to work on a section a week. The summary project was a little quicker since there was only one video which gave me more time to complete the final project.
The exercises build on each other. Reuven used a couple different things to model like a bank account, ice cream, etc. The final exercise did a good job covering most of what Reuven covered in the course. I felt comfortable with the knowledge that I learn to complete the exercise.
This course does not include tests to verify your work instead there are solution videos. I believe there were not tests since I think Reuven assumes that you will also be using Jupyter Notebooks to work through the exercises. I instead created Python scripts and ran in the console. The final exercise, I created tests using pytest to ensure that I met the requirements.
Conclusion
Overall I think it was a good beginner course on Object-orient programming using Python. For me it was a good value as I purchased the course through Humble Bundle Python Super Power Bundle. This course was the first time that OOP clicked for me and the way I think. Finally I just simply enjoyed Reuven’s teaching style.