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Object-Oriented Programming in Python

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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!

Prerequisites

Writing Functions in Python

1

OOP Fundamentals

What is OOP?

OOP termininology

Exploring object interface

Class anatomy: attributes and methods

Understanding class definitions

Create your first class

Using attributes in class definition

Class anatomy: the __init__ constructor

Correct use of __init__

Add a class constructor

Write a class from scratch

2

Inheritance and Polymorphism

Instance and class data

Class-level attributes

Changing class attributes

Alternative constructors

Class inheritance

Understanding inheritance

Create a subclass

Customizing functionality via inheritance

Method inheritance

Inheritance of class attributes

Customizing a DataFrame

3

Integrating with Standard Python

Operator overloading: comparison

Overloading equality

Checking class equality

Comparison and inheritance

Operator overloading: string representation

String formatting review

String representation of objects

Catching exceptions

Custom exceptions

Handling exception hierarchies

4

Best Practices of Class Design

Designing for inheritance and polymorphism

Polymorphic methods

Square and rectangle

Managing data access: private attributes

Attribute naming conventions

Using internal attributes

What do properties do?

Create and set properties

Read-only properties

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