Python from First Script to Service

Python is the language most likely to be somebody's first, and the one most often used badly by people who have been writing it for years. Both problems have the same root: the language makes it easy to write something that runs, and gives you no signal at all about whether the thing you wrote is going to survive a second month of use.

This course goes from installing the interpreter to shipping a service that makes outbound HTTP calls, handles their failure, and reports what it did. Nothing is skipped because it seems advanced. Type annotations, exceptions, context managers, tests and async all arrive in the order you would actually meet them, and each one arrives attached to a problem that makes its existence make sense.

It deliberately does not cover data science libraries, machine learning, GUI toolkits or web frameworks beyond the standard library. Those are separate subjects with their own prerequisites, and pretending otherwise is how courses turn into surveys. What you get here is the language and the engineering around it, which is the part everything else assumes you already have.