Level up your Python skills this August

It’s August! For many of us, that means it’s time for hot weather and perhaps even a vacation.

But if you’re a Python/Pandas nerd like me, it’s is the perfect time to level up your programming skills. And in the coming weeks, I’ll be offering 13 (!) live, online courses on a wide variety of Python and Pandas topics, including some I’ve never before taught online.

Here’s what you can expect in all of these courses:

• In-depth explanations that go beyond the syntax
• Examples, including practical connections to real-world problems
• Exercises that help you to solidify the ideas I’ve taught
• Live coding into Jupyter, rather than teaching with slides
• Plenty of time for you to ask questions
• Lots of dad jokes

All of the classes will be recorded, so if you cannot make them at the official time, you can always watch later. I’ll also provide the Jupyter notebook and any other files I used, so that you can replay the lesson at home.

Here’s what I’ve scheduled so far; I expect to release more dates and topics in the coming weeks:

• Wednesday, August 14th: Data cleaning in Pandas
• Wednesday, August 14th: Complex Pandas queries with method chaining
• Thursday, August 15th: Design patterns in Python
• Sunday, August 18th: Python decorators
• Monday, August 19th: Textual data in Pandas
• Monday, August 19th: CSV files in Pandas
• Tuesday, August 20th: Command-line tools in Python
• Wednesday, August 21st: Grouping and pivot tables in Pandas
• Sunday, August 25th: Polars
• Monday, August 26th: Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Scrapy
• Tuesday, August 27th: Intro to FastAPI
• Sunday, September 1st: Intro to machine learning with sklearn
• Tuesday, September 3rd: asyncio

You can, of course, buy these courses individually. But they’re included in my membership programs, via LernerPython.com. The Python and Web courses are available to all members, while the Pandas and machine-learning courses are available to people who join my Python+Data membership level.

Which means: If you join me at LernerPython.com, then you get access to these courses, plus my entire catalog, plus a forum for discussion and questions, plus office hours where you can ask any questions you have. If you get a Python+Data membership, then you’ll get Bamboo Weekly, as well, with weekly Pandas challenges based on current events.

Note that my normal discounts for students, retirees/pensioners, and people in non-rich countries all apply; e-mail me at reuven@lerner.co.il if you qualify for any of these.

I’m super excited to be offering these courses, and will be back in a few weeks with even more offerings.

Meanwhile, I’m always happy to hear your questions and thoughts at reuven@lerner.co.il. All messages go straight to my personal inbox!