1. Introduction

This course is[^1] for people that know a little bit of Python already, but want to dig deeper into some more advanced tools and techniques used in Python nowadays.

It is biased towards simplicity & ease of use. I’ve selected some tools instead of others like FastAPI¹ and UV² because they make learning some aspects of modern Python easier.

Why the course?

I’m a professor, I teach at IE School of Science and Technology³, and I have a course in which i go through the materials of the course for students of a Masters in Computer Science. However, I like the materials beign freely available.

What’s in the course?

The course is called Advanced Python, but one could also call it Modern Python. In it I’ll cover some newer tools and techniques that the Python community uses nowadays. Things like Dataclasses, async programming, modern dev tools, etc. It’s not intended to be a one-stop-shop, but to spark interest in how things can be done nowadays with modern language features and tools.

In the course, you’ll obviously see a lot of code, and i’ll assume you can go through it. Please go to Python for Everybody⁴ if you don’t understand something from the next block:

class Person():
    def __init__(self, name, title):
        self.name = name
        self.title = title

    def salutation(self):
        return f"{self.title}. {self.name}"


people = [
    Person("Pepe", "Mr"),
    Person("Giulia", "Ms")
]

[print(person.salutation()) for person in people]

i = 0

while i < len(people):
    if people[i].title == "Mr":
        print(f"Hello Mr. {people[i].name}")
    i += 1

$ python example.py
Mr. Pepe
Ms. Giulia
Hello Mr. Pepe

TODO: find a way of listing content in Hugo and show the all the contents in the course