Select Topics in Python: Packaging

Overview

Code and run Django websites without installing anything! This course is designed for learners who some experience with Python. The modules in this course cover modules and packages, third-party packages, and packing for distribution. To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You’ll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to slowly building features, resulting in large coding projects at the end of the course. Course Learning Objectives: Use pip to venv to manage virtual environments and packages Use third-party package managers to manage virtual environments and packages Package Python scripts and applications for a wider audience

Syllabus

Packaging in Python

Welcome to Week 1 of the Select Topics in Python: Packaging course. These assignments cover what is a Python package and how they relate to modules, creating your own package, importing and using third-party packages, and how to bundle your package into a wheel to be used by others. The module ends with a hands-on lab and graded coding exercises.

Alternative Package Managers

Welcome to Week 2 of the Select Topics in Python: Packaging course. These assignments cover the Poetry and Conda package managers. You will learn how to create virtual environments, install and remove packages, create a requirements file, and bundle packages for use by a wider audience. The module ends with a hands-on lab and graded coding exercises.

Packaging for Distribution

Welcome to Week 3 of the Select Topics in Python: Packaging course. These assignments cover packaging a Python project into something easily used by others. Learn how to take text-based and graphical projects and turn them into executable files, as well as bundle a Flask web app for hosting. The module ends with a hands-on lab and graded coding exercises.