🐍 Python

Basics

Use Google Colab to learn the basic syntax and concepts.

Download Python and Visual Studio Code with the Python extension to start writing single file scripts.

Note

Switch to PyCharm once you are familiar with the syntax and concepts such as virtualenvs, git, etc.

📚Read:
- Fluent Python (2022): magic methods, dataclasses, Advanced typing, decorators
- Architecture Patterns with Python (2020): DDD, CQRS, Event-Driver Architecture, etc.
- Robust Python (2022): typing, etc.
- Google Style Guide: don’t have to follow it, interesting to see how it evolves
📺Watch: sort by popular
- ArjanCodes: Advanced, refactoring videos are great.
- mCoding: Trivia.
🧰Learn about Design Patterns in python but don’t go too crazy.
📝StackOverflow Questions: should know the answers to the most voted questions.

Info

Use venv and pip-tools for managing virtual environments and dependencies.

Use hatchling to package libraries.

⚡️Concurrency with superfast python:
- Why Learn Python Concurrency
- How to Choose the Right Concurrency API
🧪Learn about testing / Property-based testing
🔄Task queues: Celery / arq
🔧CI Tools: MyPy, Black, ruff, pip-audit, bandit
👀Checkout some Open Source projects, better if you have used them before:
- requests and httpx: probably familiar with them
- arq: small modern project, take a good look at every file

Tip

Keep an eye on:

Note

Django: tutorial / Views
- readthedocs: documentation hosting
- sentry: monitoring platform
- old mdn: kuma, old MDN
- guya.moe: manga reading website
Flask: tutorial
FastAPI: tutorial