Object-Oriented Programming in Python
Dive in and learn how to create classes and leverage inheritance and polymorphism to reuse and optimize code.
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Course Description
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a widely used programming paradigm that reduces development times—making it easier to read, reuse, and maintain your code. OOP shifts the focus from thinking about code as a sequence of actions to looking at your program as a collection of objects that interact with each other. In this course, you’ll learn how to create classes, which act as the blueprints for every object in Python. You’ll then leverage principles called inheritance and polymorphism to reuse and optimize code. Dive in and learn how to create beautiful code that’s clean and efficient!
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OOP Fundamentals
FreeIn this chapter, you'll learn what object-oriented programming (OOP) is, how it differs from procedural-programming, and how it can be applied. You'll then define your own classes, and learn how to create methods, attributes, and constructors. - 2
Inheritance and Polymorphism
Inheritance and polymorphism are the core concepts of OOP that enable efficient and consistent code reuse. Learn how to inherit from a class, customize and redefine methods, and review the differences between class-level data and instance-level data. - 3
Integrating with Standard Python
In this chapter, you'll learn how to make sure that objects that store the same data are considered equal, how to define and customize string representations of objects, and even how to create new error types. Through interactive exercises, you’ll learn how to further customize your classes to make them work more like standard Python data types. - 4
Best Practices of Class Design
How do you design classes for inheritance? Does Python have private attributes? Is it possible to control attribute access? You'll find answers to these questions (and more) as you learn class design best practices.
Maggie Matsui
Amy Peterson
Kelsey McNeilliePrerequisites
Writing Functions in Python
Alex Yarosh
Curriculum Developer @ Cockroach Labs
Alex is a software engineer and mathematician. They currently work at Cockroach Labs - the company behind CockroachDB - where they develop online product trainings. They like cats, teaching, and trains.
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