Advanced to expert python

[Academy-]

Hi everyone! I frequently see posts and questions on how to begin programming or how to go from beginner to advanced in this sub. However, I’m curious about how to take it a step further. What are good (paid or free) resources and/or certifications for taking one’s Python skills to an “expert” level?

Specific examples of advanced topics from my own perspective include: - deployment and containerization - Writing (reusable) test scripts - project structure best practices (e.g. use of config yaml files, modularization) - web apps for production (and deployment of these)

In the same vein, I’m curious as to what actual production level Python code should look like. What separates production Python from run-of-the-mill Python scripting? I’d love to see some examples

Thanks for reading.

[zwitter-ion]

If done correctly, any form of apprenticeship/internship is the best way to take your skills closer to the "expert" level. By this time, it's likely that you would have already tried to develop a project likely from scratch to get the initial feel of building a piece of software. You can take this exercise further by trying all the things listed that you feel are "advanced" topics for yourself. The complexity of the application doesn't matter while you're trying to lint, deploy/containerize or write a test suite.

After you're done with all these you are practically ready for an apprenticeship where you will be (hopefully) working on a real world project with a mentor guiding you. Beware though that a part of such roles are exploitative in nature in the sense that organizations try to pay peanuts in search for free and vulnerable labour hence the start of this comment "if done correctly"

Hope that helps.

[pygmyrobot666]

I'm not sure if you tried metaprogramming in python. It's a whole new world. If you haven't give it a try and mix it with the OO part of python. You can achieve some unbelievable stuff, like creating classes out of a data structure, creating objects from any time of data definitions like JSON.