This intermediate and advanced guide covers:
- Data Structures: Strings, Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, Sets
- Functions: Basic, advanced, lambda, decorators
- Exception Handling: Try-catch blocks, custom exceptions
- File I/O: Reading/writing files, CSV, JSON operations
- OOP: Classes, inheritance, polymorphism, special methods
- Modules: Creating and using modules, packages
- Advanced Topics: Generators, context managers, decorators
- Use meaningful variable and function names
- Write docstrings for functions and classes
- Handle exceptions appropriately
- Use list/dict comprehensions for cleaner code
- Follow PEP 8 style guidelines
- Use context managers for resource management
- Apply OOP principles when designing larger applications
- Explore external libraries (requests, pandas, numpy)
- Learn about testing with pytest
- Study design patterns
- Practice building larger projects
- Learn about web frameworks (Flask, Django)
- Explore data science and machine learning libraries