🐍 Python

Basics

Download Python and Visual Studio Code with the Python extension.

Start with single file scripts.

Note

Project ideas:

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

📚Read:
- Fluent Python (2022):
  - magic methods
  - dataclasses
  - Type Hints (Protocol, duck typing)
  - decorators
- Architecture Patterns with Python: DDD, CQRS, Event-Driver Architecture, etc.
📺Watch:
- ArjanCodes: Advanced, refactoring videos are great.
- mCoding: Trivia, watch popular videos.
🧰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 dependency management, poetry is also a good option, specially for packaging a library. Avoid pipenv.

⚡️Concurrency:
- Why Learn Python Concurrency
- How to Choose the Right Concurrency API
🧪Learn about testing
🔄Task queues: Celery / arq
🔧CI Tools (sample precommit): MyPy, Black, isort, flake8 / ruff, pip-audit, bandit.
👀Checkout some Open Source projects, better if you have used them before:
- arrow: highly recommended
- 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
- readthedocs: documentation hosting
- sentry: monitoring platform
- old mdn: kuma, old MDN
- guya.moe: manga reading website
Flask: tutorial
FastAPI: tutorial