Level 2 · M.Sc

Python Programming

Syllabus · 42 phases · ~1 year

Every unit this programme teaches, in the order it is taught. Headlines only — the material itself opens once you are enrolled.

Dates, price and prerequisites

Phase 0 Foundations & tooling
Phase 1 Running Python
Phase 2 Values, names & the object model
Phase 3 Numbers, booleans & operators
Phase 4 Strings, bytes & Unicode
Phase 5 Lists & tuples
Phase 6 Dictionaries & sets
Phase 7 Control flow & structural pattern matching
Phase 8 Functions, arguments, scope & closures
Phase 9 Comprehensions & generator expressions
Phase 10 Iterators, generators & the iteration protocol
Phase 11 Exceptions & error handling
Phase 12 Classes & instances
Phase 13 Dunder methods & operator overloading
Phase 14 Properties, encapsulation & state
Phase 15 Inheritance, composition & the MRO
Phase 16 dataclasses, enums & namedtuples
Phase 17 Duck typing, protocols & ABCs
Phase 18 Modules, the import system & __main__
Phase 19 Packages, project layout & building a distribution
Phase 20 Virtual environments, dependencies & lockfiles (uv)
Phase 21 File & path I/O
Phase 22 Serialization & tasq persistence
Phase 23 Dates, times & timezones
Phase 24 Regular expressions
Phase 25 The functional toolbox
Phase 26 Type hints & static typing with mypy
Phase 27 Testing with pytest
Phase 28 Property-based testing (Hypothesis)
Phase 29 Debugging, logging & introspection
Phase 30 Processes, threads & the GIL
Phase 31 subprocess & talking to the OS
Phase 32 async/await & an intro event-loop model
Phase 33 HTTP clients & talking to APIs
Phase 34 A small database-backed app (sqlite3)
Phase 35 A small web API for tasq (FastAPI)
Phase 36 CLI ergonomics, configuration & packaging
Phase 37 Performance basics
Phase 38 Security & robustness
Phase 39 Capstone: tasq is complete
Phase 40 Hardening, postmortem & "What's Next"
Phase 41 Portal integration