Learn Coding in Python - Learning Plan
Picking a new programming language to learn is tricky. Whether you are a beginner or advanced, it helps to know what topics to learn. To cover for the basics of a programming language, its advanced concepts, and quick tricks if any. For this reason, QuickCode is starting a series where we’ll be walking new learners on topics to focus when they begin learning a new programming language.
As a first in the series, we have picked to start with Python. Python has been steadily gaining ground to become one of the most popular programming languages of this decade, especially in the last 5 years. It’s fast emerging as a language of choice in Data Science, for Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, web applications, and web services. The number of job opportunities connected to the Python language has also been growing rapidly across the US, Europe, China and India. Here’s a screenshot from world’s leading source of ranking of programming languages- Tiobe Index
Now that you are here and still reading, I am assuming that you had some basic interest in learning Python. On top of it we have also done our research and it’s evident that learning Python as a programming language in 2019, is a good decision for a wide job market. Now without further ado, let’s dive into a learning plan for Python:
Beginner Topics to focus on Python [Day 1–5]
1. Start with Command Line basics in Python [Installing, updating, running code]
2. Python Data Structures and Objects
3. Python Operators
4. Python Statements
5. Methods and Functions in Python
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Intermediate Topics to focus on Python [Day 6–11]
6. Object Oriented Programming in Python
7. Modules and Packages in Python
8. Error Handling And Exceptions
9. Python Decorators and Generators
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Advanced Topics to focus on Python [Day 12–17]
10. Collections in Python- Counter, DefaultDict, OrderDict, NamedTuple
11. Debugging in Python-pdb
12. Regular Expressions
13. StringIO
14. Advanced usage of Python Data Structures
15. GUIs with Python
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Specialized Areas to develop projects with Python [Day 18–30]
16. Web Application Development with Python
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17. Creating Bots with Python
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18. Data Science with Python
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19. Game Development with Python
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20. Machine Learning with Python
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Complementary Skills To Brush Up for a Job
Incidentally the job market for programming is such that one language alone may not suffice all the requirements for a role. It needs to be paired with some complementing language or technical skills which would help you work in a company with multiple systems. So in order to increase your job chances, you would want to pair them with at least one (if not more) additional language skills for coding:
- Basic HTML, CSS ( for web development)
- Basic Javascript, Jquery (for web development)
- Basic SQL (must have for any role)
- Statistics (for Data Analyst roles)
- Linear Algebra (for Machine Learning roles)
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Popular Job Roles To Target with Python
We all want to achieve something after learning something, especially something as rigorous as programming. Its no secret that most of the jobs of future will be centered around computer programming, coding and other related skills. Of course, many learn out of their own interest or to make their own applications. But if you are someone looking for a job after a significant learning effort, then these are some of the job roles you can target with Python:
- Data Analyst
- Data Scientist
- Python Django Developer
- Python Web Developer
- Senior Python Developer
- AI Software Engineer with Python
- Machine Learning Engineer Python
Conclusion
This article is a first in our new series of ‘Learning Plan’, to help students learn a new language in a step wise manner. It’s an initiative we are taking based on the pain points we uncovered after talking to some of our users. We figured it would help students to have some example courses to look for whenever interested in a topic of their choice. Also as a next step what other complementary skills they might need when targeting a particular job role in mind.
However, there’s always a scope to do better. So it be awesome if you would like to share any ideas to help us plan our next article better. Be it the next ‘Learning Plan’ in the same series, or some other type of article where we can help better. Quickcode will be grateful for your ideas, appreciation and feedback of any kind.
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