1 00:00:00,770 --> 00:00:06,170 Hello, in this video, I want to introduce you to the curriculum of the course, so to give you an 2 00:00:06,170 --> 00:00:10,970 overview of what the course contains so that you know what to expect. 3 00:00:11,990 --> 00:00:12,710 All right. 4 00:00:12,770 --> 00:00:19,040 Now, I'll give you an overview of the course, talking about six main points, six questions that you 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:20,540 may have about the course. 6 00:00:20,870 --> 00:00:24,050 First question would be what are the requirements to take 7 00:00:24,050 --> 00:00:31,880 the course? Second, can I skip to the applications part of the course if I know the basics? What kind 8 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:33,960 of material does the course contain? 9 00:00:34,010 --> 00:00:36,140 What if I have an issue? 10 00:00:36,380 --> 00:00:37,700 If you have an issue, what happens? 11 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:42,170 What code editor is used in the course and what applications 12 00:00:42,170 --> 00:00:44,400 are we going to build throughout the course? 13 00:00:45,050 --> 00:00:46,790 So let's start with question number one. 14 00:00:46,790 --> 00:00:47,780 What are the requirements? 15 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:50,450 You just need a computer and an Internet connection. 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,390 Whether you have Windows, Mac or Linux, it doesn't matter. 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,450 Python works is the same in all operating systems. 18 00:00:56,690 --> 00:00:59,960 Now, what are the requirements regarding your skills? 19 00:01:00,140 --> 00:01:05,750 Well, the course assumes you have no previous knowledge of Python, so there are no requirements of 20 00:01:05,750 --> 00:01:07,540 previous programming experience. 21 00:01:08,030 --> 00:01:14,930 Indeed, sections two through 12 cover the basics of Python, such as variables, data types, functions, 22 00:01:14,930 --> 00:01:22,460 conditionals, etc. You will learn all those basics of Python in the context of a Python program that 23 00:01:22,460 --> 00:01:26,320 we will build together in sections 2 to 12. 24 00:01:26,870 --> 00:01:27,100 Right. 25 00:01:27,470 --> 00:01:32,220 Question number two, can you skip the basics if you know them already? 26 00:01:32,540 --> 00:01:40,400 Well, yes, you can skip sections 2 to 12 and start with Section 13 directly where we start building 27 00:01:40,410 --> 00:01:42,590 the first real world application in Python. 28 00:01:42,950 --> 00:01:44,180 That is the case 29 00:01:44,180 --> 00:01:51,530 if you know Python basics. If you are not sure whether you want to skip sections 2 to 12, then what 30 00:01:51,530 --> 00:01:55,010 you can do is you can take the test at the ends of Section one. 31 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,030 At the end, you have a test. It's made of 30 questions about Python. 32 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:04,510 If you pass a test, that means you can safely start with Section 13 right away. 33 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,820 Otherwise, it is recommended that you take sections two through 12. 34 00:02:10,010 --> 00:02:13,230 What kinds of learning material does the course contain? 35 00:02:13,490 --> 00:02:18,580 Well, the course is made of different types of learning material, mainly the course is based on video. 36 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,000 So the videos are on demand, meaning there are no time restrictions. 37 00:02:23,210 --> 00:02:24,500 The videos are there for you. 38 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:26,270 You can watch them whenever you want, 39 00:02:26,270 --> 00:02:28,490 and rewatch them any time. Besides the videos, 40 00:02:28,490 --> 00:02:30,830 there are also different types of material. 41 00:02:31,070 --> 00:02:37,610 At the end of the sections, you will find a text based summary highlighting the main takeaways from 42 00:02:37,610 --> 00:02:40,090 the videos of that section. 43 00:02:40,550 --> 00:02:47,360 There will be Python exercises that you can take directly on the Udemy interface after every two videos 44 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:47,900 or so. 45 00:02:48,410 --> 00:02:50,540 There's also a Q and A forum. 46 00:02:50,540 --> 00:02:57,170 So a question and answer forum inside the course which you can use to search for problems that may arise 47 00:02:57,170 --> 00:02:57,980 with your code. 48 00:02:58,820 --> 00:03:05,120 And that takes us to question number four, what to do when you have an issue with your code? 49 00:03:05,690 --> 00:03:10,220 Well, when you have an issue with your code, the first thing you can do is you can just copy that 50 00:03:10,220 --> 00:03:13,700 error message generated by Python and paste it on Google. 51 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:20,480 And the first result on Google is usually from stackoverflow.com, which is a forum where people 52 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,060 ask and solve programming issues for others. 53 00:03:23,420 --> 00:03:25,580 And you'll probably find the answer there. 54 00:03:25,580 --> 00:03:32,980 If not, if Google doesn't find you anything, then perform a search inside the Q&A forum inside 55 00:03:32,990 --> 00:03:38,600 the course, there are thousands and thousands of questions in the Q&A, so chances are that you will 56 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,040 find a solution there. 57 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:45,440 But if not, then feel free to create your own question in the Q&A forum. 58 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:49,040 And I, or my teaching assistant, will be happy to have you there. 59 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:56,660 Just be aware that you will get a lot of errors while learning to code and also later, while coding. 60 00:03:56,900 --> 00:04:02,080 Even experienced programmers gets errors all the time, they just know how to fix them. 61 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:08,930 In fact, even when coding the apps for this course, I have experienced many Python errors and I have 62 00:04:08,930 --> 00:04:13,520 left those errors in the video for you to see when they occur. 63 00:04:13,850 --> 00:04:20,540 I have not cut those errors out of the video because I don't want to give you the wrong impression that 64 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:23,570 programming is smooth like butter. 65 00:04:23,870 --> 00:04:30,800 Instead, I explain every error that occurs in the video and we try to understand why that error occurred 66 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,810 and fix the error together. 67 00:04:33,020 --> 00:04:39,020 That way, you not only learn how to code, you also learn how to fix errors, because knowing how to 68 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:42,800 fix an error is as important as knowing how to code. 69 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:50,180 You cannot take your program to the mechanic to to a specialist who fixes programs because you are the 70 00:04:50,180 --> 00:04:50,960 specialist. 71 00:04:51,230 --> 00:04:52,640 You should know how to fix it. 72 00:04:53,310 --> 00:04:53,690 Right. 73 00:04:53,690 --> 00:04:59,270 Point number five. What code editor do we using the course? Well, to be able to write Python, 74 00:04:59,460 --> 00:05:06,570 you need a code editor. In this course, we use Visual Studio Code as a code editor for Python 75 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:13,030 and I will show you how to install both Python and Visual Studio Code in this section in the next videos. 76 00:05:13,380 --> 00:05:17,840 But if you have a favorite code editor, feel free to use that editor. 77 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,950 The Python codes will be the same no matter if we use different editors. 78 00:05:23,250 --> 00:05:28,080 And lastly, point number six, the applications that we are going to build in the course. 79 00:05:29,530 --> 00:05:35,170 Let me give you a preview of them, you can also access this view in the next lecture. 80 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,580 So after this video, but here, I'll give you some more details about the applications. 81 00:05:40,060 --> 00:05:40,260 Right. 82 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:47,170 We will start with application one, which will be a program that interacts with users through a command 83 00:05:47,170 --> 00:05:48,250 line interface. 84 00:05:48,730 --> 00:05:55,120 The user can input any words in English and the program returns the definition of that word. 85 00:05:55,750 --> 00:06:01,510 So this app is excellent to solidify the knowledge about Python basics. 86 00:06:01,690 --> 00:06:07,060 So this app will start in Section 13, then application number two 87 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:14,970 will be a program that generates Web maps, particularly, we will be focusing on making Web maps that 88 00:06:14,970 --> 00:06:20,250 show population distribution and locations of volcanoes in the US. 89 00:06:21,060 --> 00:06:26,550 That program, we'll also introduce you to the world of data analysis with Python, since we are dealing 90 00:06:26,550 --> 00:06:30,540 with data and we also use the Pandas library for that app. 91 00:06:30,950 --> 00:06:33,630 This is a very popular library for data analysis. 92 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:37,880 Then app number three will be a personal website. 93 00:06:38,370 --> 00:06:45,480 So we'll be making a website with Python and the website will have a menu and you can expand the website 94 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,480 further on if you like. 95 00:06:47,490 --> 00:06:50,010 So add some more menu items, add more pages. 96 00:06:50,220 --> 00:06:56,820 You'll also learn how to deploy the website, the Python website to a live server so you can make your 97 00:06:56,820 --> 00:07:02,830 own website and publish it, maybe upload your CV there or some work you have done. 98 00:07:02,940 --> 00:07:05,370 So a showcase, a portfolio website. 99 00:07:05,850 --> 00:07:12,090 Next, we will build a desktop app that will serve as a book inventory. 100 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:19,560 So the app will have a graphical user interface with buttons and text boxes, and areas somewhere to show 101 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:27,370 the books in the list, and the users will be able to search for books in this graphical user interface. 102 00:07:27,390 --> 00:07:28,170 In this program. 103 00:07:28,380 --> 00:07:32,820 The app will have a database in the backend to store all the information. 104 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:33,870 Next, 105 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:37,870 you will learn how to make a mobile app with Python. 106 00:07:38,190 --> 00:07:44,610 We will create a form in the app where the user can sign up for an account and they can login and then 107 00:07:44,610 --> 00:07:47,850 they can interact with our mobile app and so on. 108 00:07:48,450 --> 00:07:55,680 Next, there will be a webcam motion detector, which will be a program that captures video from your 109 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:02,670 computer webcam and you will learn how to process that video frame by frame and manipulate each frame 110 00:08:02,670 --> 00:08:03,440 with Python. 111 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:10,290 Specifically, you are going to learn how to detect moving objects in the video being captured and also 112 00:08:10,290 --> 00:08:15,890 store each movements in an Excel file recording the time of the object. 113 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:22,080 So when the object entered the video frame and when it's exited the frame, that's a very interesting one. 114 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,780 Next, web scraper. 115 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:33,390 So you'll learn how to create a web scraper which creates multiple pages of data in a real estate 116 00:08:33,750 --> 00:08:34,530 website. 117 00:08:34,710 --> 00:08:37,550 And also so those dots are in an Excel file, of course. 118 00:08:38,370 --> 00:08:45,390 So extracting data from a website and storing them in a table format. App eight will be about data analysis 119 00:08:45,390 --> 00:08:46,860 and visualization. 120 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:54,390 We will be analyzing financial data and we'll create a data dashboard in the browser is showing the 121 00:08:54,390 --> 00:08:56,490 graphs generated by Python. 122 00:08:56,850 --> 00:09:04,320 Then comes an advanced web app which will contain a user form where users can enter data such as their 123 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,450 email, and the program will process the user data and send them. 124 00:09:09,930 --> 00:09:14,580 Send the users an email to their email address that they entered in the form. 125 00:09:15,270 --> 00:09:22,620 So that's a complete Web app with a PostgreSQL database backend to store the user information. 126 00:09:23,010 --> 00:09:29,940 Lastly, app number 10 will summarize all the skills you got throughout the course, and here you'll 127 00:09:29,940 --> 00:09:36,840 build a web app which processes Excel files and shows all outputs to the user on the web page. 128 00:09:37,170 --> 00:09:40,370 And that is the list of the apps that we will build together with Python. 129 00:09:40,770 --> 00:09:47,700 All that will give you some solid Python skills that you can apply to build any other app with Python. 130 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,170 Thanks for watching this video. 131 00:09:49,170 --> 00:09:50,740 And let's move on to the next one. 132 00:09:51,030 --> 00:09:51,680 See you there.