Python Engineer Roadmap

Python can be used in a lot of computer science fields. In this repository, we have collected resources for each field of computer science that are related to Python.
Not sure which source to choose? You can follow the resources marked with a ✅ symbol, they are highly recommended by the community.

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Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
  • Algorithms and Data Structures
  • System Design
  • Git
  • Operating System
  • Virtual Environment
  • Python
• Career Path
  • Backend
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • Image Processing
  • DevOps
  • Hacking
  • Algorithmic Trading
  • Bot
• Advanced Topics
  • Databases
  • ORM
  • Clean Code
  • Clean Architecture
  • Caching
  • Testing
  • Container Platforms
  • Programming Paradigms
  • Architectural Patterns
  • Design Principles
  • Design Patterns
  • Message Brokers
  • WSGI Servers
  • ASGI Servers
  • Web Servers
  • API
  • Reliability
  • Distributed Systems
  • Reactive Systems
  • Refactoring
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • Soft Skill
  • Public Cloud
  • IoT

Prerequisites

• Algorithms and Data Structures

  • Book

    • ✅ Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava
    • ✅ Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
    • Data Structure and Algorithmic Thinking with Python: Data Structure and Algorithmic Puzzles by Narasimha Karumanchi
    • Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS)

  • Video

    • Data Structures And Algorithms Course by Mosh Hamedani
    • Algorithms and Data Structures for Beginners by NeetCode
    • Advanced Algorithms by NeetCode

  • Platform

    • ✅ LeetCode
    • HackerRank
    • CodeWars
    • TheAlgorithms
    • Codeforces

  • Repo

    • ✅ Coding University
    • Algorithm solution and summary of Grokking book

  • Cheat Sheet

    • Data Structures Cheat Sheet

• System Design

  • Book

    • ✅ System Design Interview by Alex Xu
    • System Design Interview: Volume 2 by Alex Xu & Sahn Lam

  • Course

    • Educative - Grokking the System Design Interview
    • NeetCode - System Design for Beginners
    • NeetCode - System Design Interview

• Git

  • Documentation

    • Git Documentation

  • Video

    • ✅ Git Course by Mosh Hamedani
    • Git and GitHub tutorial for beginners by Amigoscode
    • Git and GitHub crash course by freeCodeCamp
    • Git For Professionals course by Trevor Miller

  • Book

    • Pro Git
    • Git Notes for Professionals

  • Website

    • Git For Beginners by tutorialspoint
    • Git For Intermediates and Professionals by W3schools
    • Advanced Git Tips by atlassian
    • Learn Git Branching

  • Cheat Sheet

    • Git cheat sheet

• Operating System

  • Book

    • ✅ LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide: Exams 101 and 102 by Roderick W. Smith

  • Video

    • Lpic-1 Course by Jadi

  • Platform

    • Linux Journey

  • Community

    • Discord Linux group
    • Linux For Everyone Community

  • Cheat Sheet

    • Linux commands cheat sheet

• Virtual Environment

  • VENV

    • Documentation
      • VENV Documentation

  • VirtualEnvWrapper

    • Documentation
      • VirtualEnvWrapper Documentation

  • PipEnv

    • Documentation
      • PipEnv Documentation

  • Conda

    • Documentation
      • Conda Documentation

  • Python-Poetry

    • Documentation
      • Python-Poetry Documentation

• Python

  • Documentation

    • Python Documentation

  • Beginner

    • Book

      • ✅ Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes
      • Head First Python by Paul Barry
      • Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw
      • Essential Python Tools

    • Video

      • Python Beginner Tutorial by NeuralNine
      • Python Programming Tutorials by Tech with Tim

    • Platform

      • W3schools
      • Codecademy Python 2
      • Codecademy Python 3
      • Sololearn Python
      • Wiingy

  • Intermediate

    • Book

      • ✅ Python Cookbook by David Beazley & Brian Jones
      • Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python Best Practices for Writing Clean Code by Sweigart, Al
      • Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho 2nd Edition
      • Effective Python by Brett Slatkin
      • Python Concurrency with asyncio

    • Video

      • Python Intermediate Tutorial by NeuralNine
      • Intermediate Python Tutorials by Tech with Tim
      • Python3: Variables, Functions and Functional Programming, Closures, Decorators, Modules and Packages

    • Platform

      • GeeksForGeeks
      • Programiz
      • Scaler Topics

  • Advanced

    • Book

      • ✅ Architecture Patterns with Python by Harry Percival & Bob Gregory
      • ✅ Practices of the Python Pro by Dane Hillard
      • ✅ Python Tricks by Dan Bader
      • Python Testing with pytest by Brian Okken
      • Python Concurrency with asyncio by Matthew Fowler
      • Python for Programmers by Deitel Developer Series
      • Serious Python by Julien Danjou
      • Python Notes for Professionals
      • Python Anti-patterns

    • Video

      • ✅ Python3: Deep dive Iteration, Generators
      • ✅ Python3: Deep dive Dictionaries, Sets, Related Data Structures, Serialization/Deserialization
      • ✅ Python3: Deep dive Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

    • Platform

      • ✅ RealPython
      • Python-Course

  • Community

    • Python Discord group
    • Python Telegram group

  • Cheat Sheet

    • Python cheat sheet

Career Path

• Backend

  • Django

    • Documentation

      • Django Documentation
      • Django Tutorial - w3schools

    • Book

      • Django for Beginners by William S. Vincent
      • Django for APIs by William S. Vincent
      • Django for Professionals by William S. Vincent
      • Two Scoops of Django 3.x by Daniel Roy Greenfeld, Audrey Roy Greenfeld
      • Test-Driven Development with Python: Obey the Testing Goat: Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript by Harry Percival
      • Test-Driven Development with Django by Kevin Harvey
      • Django3 by example by antonio mele

    • Video

      • Django Web Framework - Full Course for Beginners by Justin Mitchel
      • Build REST APIs with Django REST Framework and Python By Shubham Sarda
      • Django For Everybody - Full Course by Dr. Charles Severance
      • Django ORM Mastery - Very Academy
      • Learn Django Class Base View - Very Academy
      • Django Course by Mosh Hamedani
      • Try Django 3.2 - Python Web Development Tutorial Series by Justin Mitchel

    • Awesome Django

      • Awesome Django

    • Community

      • Django Discord group
      • Django Telegram group

    • Cheat Sheet

      • Beginners Django cheat sheet
      • Django Cheat Sheet
      • Django Models Cheat Sheet
      • Django Class Based Views Cheat Sheet
      • Django Class Based Views Cheat Sheet 2

  • FastAPI

    • Video

      • Python API Development - Comprehensive Course for Beginners by Sanjeev Thiyagarajan
      • FastAPI course by testdriven.io & talkpython.fm
      • FastAPI - The Complete Course 2023 (Beginner + Advanced)
      • Microservice Architecture and System Design with Python & Kubernetes – Full Course

    • Documentation

      • FastAPI documentation
      • FastAPI Utilities documentation

    • Awesome FastAPI

      • Awesome FastAPI

    • Community

      • FastApi Discord group
      • FastApi Gitter

  • Flask

    • Book

      • Flask Web Development: Developing Web Applications with Python
      • Flask Framework Cookbook
      • The New And Improved Flask Mega-Tutorial

    • Video

      • Flask Tutorial by Tech With Tim
      • REST APIs with Flask and Python by Jose Salvatierra

    • Documentation

      • Flask Document

    • Cheat Sheet

      • Flask Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference

  • Tornado

    • Book

      • Introduction to Tornado by Michael Dory

    • Video

      • Tornado, Coroutines and Concurrency by Bek Brace
      • Tornado in Depth by Oscar Vilaplana
      • More than just a pretty web framework, the Tornado IOLoop by Gavin M.Roy

    • Documentation

      • Tornado Document

  • Web2Py

    • Documentation

      • Web2Py Document

    • Book

      • Complete Reference Manual by Massimo Di Pierro
      • Killer Web Development by Marco Laspe

  • Sanic

    • Documentation

      • Sanic Document
      • Sanic Guide

    • Article

      • Getting Started with Sanic for Python by Mukul Khanna

    • Video

      • Async Web Apps with Sanic by Dougal Matthews

  • AIOHTTP

    • Documentation
      • AIOHTTP Document

  • Bottle

    • Documentation
      • Bottle Document

  • Dash

    • Documentation

      • Dash-Python Document

    • Awesome Dash

      • Awesome Dash

    • Template

      • Dash Clean Architecture Template

  • BlackSheep

    • Documentation
      • BlackSheep Document

  • List Of All Python Backend Web Frameworks

• Data Science

  • Data Analysis

    • Numpy

      • Documentation
        • Numpy Document

    • Scipy

      • Documentation
        • Scipy Document

    • Pandas

      • Documentation
        • Pandas Document

  • Data Visualization

    • Matplotlib

      • Documentation
        • Matplotlib Document

    • Plotly

      • Documentation
        • Plotly Document

• Machine Learning

  • Video
    • Machine Learning Course by Andrew Ng

• Deep Learning

  • Video
    • Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng
    • MIT-Intoduction to Deep Learning
    • AladdinPersson

• Reinforcement Learning

  • Video
    • Foundations of Deep RL
    • Deep Reinforcement Learning
    • Stanford-Reinforcement Learning

• Neural Networks

  • Video
    • Neural Networks and Calculus

• Image Processing

• DevOps

  • Book

    • Python for DevOps: Learn Ruthlessly Effective Automation

  • Community

    • DevOps, SRE, & Infrastructure

  • CI/CD

    • CI/CD Full Course | Continuous Integration And Continuous
    • GitLab CI CD Tutorial for Beginners

• Hacking

  • Book
    • Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters

• Algorithmic Trading

• Bot

  • Web

    • Selenium

      • Selenium (Main Home)
      • CDP Documentation
      • Source
      • Documentation
      • Helium
      • Base
      • InstaPy
      • AutoCrawler
      • Wire
      • Cucucumber
      • Requestium
      • Undetected

    • PlayWright

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • Browser

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • WebBot

      • Source

  • Telegram

    • Telethon

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • Pygram

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • Pyrogram

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • Python Telegram Bot

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • AIOGram

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • PyTelegramBotApi

      • Source
      • Documentation

    • TeleBot

      • Source

  • Discord

    • DiscordPy

      • Source
      • Documentation

  • Instagram

    • Instagram-Scraper

      • Source

    • InstaPy

      • Source

    • Instaloader

      • Source

Advanced Topics

⚠️ The following topics don't have any order or priority of learning.
🔥 Choose topics that you are interested in or suit your needs.

• Databases

  • General

    • Book
      • ✅ Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
      • Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

  • SQLite

    • Documentation

      • SQLite Documentation

    • Tutorials

      • SQLite Tutorial

  • PostgreSQL

    • Documentation

      • PostgreSQL Documentation

    • Book

      • Essential Postgres: Database Development using PostgreSQL

    • Community

      • PostgreSQL Telegram group

    • Cheat Sheet

      • PostgreSQL Cheat Sheet By GoalKicker
      • PostgreSQL CHEAT SHEET
      • POSTGRESQL 8.3 PSQL CHEAT SHEET

    • Video

      • SQL and PostgreSQL: The Complete Developer's Guide

  • MySQL

    • Documentation

      • MySQL Documentation

    • Tutorials

      • MySQL Tutorial

    • Cheat Sheet

      • MySQL Cheat Sheet by GoalKicker

  • Oracle

    • Documentation

      • Oracle Documentation

    • Tutorials

      • Oracle Tutorial

    • Cheat Sheet

      • Oracle Cheat Sheet by GoalKicker

  • MongoDB

    • Documentation

      • MongoDB Documentation

    • Tutorial

      • Python MongoDB

    • Cheat Sheet

      • MongoDB Cheat Sheet by GoalKicker

  • Redis

    • Documentation

      • Redis Documentation

    • Video

      • Redis Crash Course 1
      • Redis Crash Course 2

    • Article

      • How to use redis with python by Brad Solomon

    • Cheat Sheet

      • Redis Cheat Sheet 1
      • Redis Cheat Sheet 2

  • MemCached

    • Documentation
      • MemCached Wiki

  • Apache Cassandra

    • Documentation
      • Apache Cassandra Documentation

• Clean Code

  • Book
    • ✅ Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
    • ✅ Clean Code in Python by Mariano Anaya
    • Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition by Steve Mcconnell
    • Clean Python: Elegant Coding in Python by Sunil Kapil

• ORM

  • SQLAlchemy

    • Documentation

      • SQLAlchemy documentation

    • Tutorial

      • SQLAlchemy tutorials
      • SQLAlchemy ORM tutorial

  • Django-ORM

    • Book

      • Django ORM cookbook (by Agiliq)

    • Documentation

      • Django ORM documentation

    • Tutorial

      • Django ORM examples (in Django's official GitHub repository)
      • Using Django ORM Outside Of Framework
      • How to use FastAPI with Django ORM and Admin

  • Tortoise

    • Documentation

      • Tortoise ORM documentation

    • Tutorial

      • Tortoise ORM tutorial

  • Peewee

    • Documentation

      • Peewee documentation

    • Tutorial

      • Peewee tutorial
      • Peewee ORM examples

  • Pony

    • Documentation

      • Pony ORM documentation

    • Tutorial

      • Pony ORM tutorial
      • Pony ORM examples

• Clean Architecture

  • Book
    • Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)
    • Architecture Patterns with Python: Enabling Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design, and Event-Driven Microservices

• Caching

  • Article

    • Caching in django with redis by Real Python

  • Video

    • Redis Course - In-Memory Database Tutorial

• Testing

  • Python unittest package

    • Documentation
      • Testing in Python
      • Getting Started With Testing in Python

  • PyTest Testing Package

    • Documentation
      • Official PyTest Documentation

  • DRF Test Framework

    • Documentation

      • Testing - Django REST framework

    • Video

      • Pytest Django and Django Rest Framework

• Container Platforms

  • Docker

    • Documentation

      • Docker Documentation

    • Book

      • Docker in Action, Second Edition
      • Docker Deep Dive: Zero to Docker in a single book

    • Video

      • Docker Mastery With Django - very academy
      • Docker Course by Mosh Hamedani
      • Docker Swarm Step by Step

    • Cheat Sheet

      • Docker Cheat Sheet

  • Kubernetes

    • Documentation

      • Kubernetes Documentation

    • Video

      • "Just me and Opensource" YouTube channel

    • Book

      • Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition
      • Kubernetes in Action, Second Edition

    • Community

      • Kubernetes Discord group

• Programming Paradigms

  • Object-Oriented Programming

    • Tutorial

      • Python Classes and Objects by W3Schools (Beginners)
      • Python Object Oriented Programming by programiz.com (Beginners)

    • Article

      • Python OOPs Concepts 3 by GeeksForGeeks (Beginners)
      • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python 3 by David Amos (Intermediate)

    • Book

      • Python Object-Oriented Programming

  • Functional Programming

    • Article
      • Functional Programming in Python

• Architectural Patterns

  • Microservice

    • Book
      • Microservice Architecture
      • Building Microservices, 2nd Edition

  • Enterprise Applications

    • Book
      • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
      • Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

• Design Principles

  • SOLID

    • Article
      • SOLID Principles In Python by Philip Norton
      • Uncle Bob's SOLID principles made easy 🍀 - in Python!

  • KISS

  • DRY

• Design Patterns

  • Book

    • Head First Design Patterns: Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software
    • Django Design Patterns and Best Practices (by Arun Ravindran)
    • Dive Into Design Patterns by Alexander Shvets

  • Video

    • Design Patterns Course by Mosh Hamedani
    • Become a better software developer

• Message Brokers

  • RabbitMQ

    • Documentation

      • RabbitMQ Documentation

    • Cheat Sheet

      • RabbitMQ Cheat Sheet 1
      • RabbitMQ Cheat Sheet 2

  • Apache Kafka

    • Documentation

      • Apache Kafka Documentation

    • Cheat Sheet

      • Apache Kafka Cheat Sheet 1
      • Apache Kafka Cheat Sheet 2

• WSGI Servers

  • Gunicorn

    • Documentation
      • Gunicorn Documentation

  • uWSGI

    • Documentation
      • uWSGI Documentation

• ASGI Servers

  • Uvicorn

    • Documentation
      • Uvicorn Documentation

  • Starlette

    • Documentation
      • Starlette Documentation

• Web Servers

  • Nginx

    • Documentation

      • NGINX Documentation

    • Book

      • NGINX Cookbook

    • Cheat Sheet

      • NGINX CHEAT SHEET

  • Apache

    • Documentation

      • Apache Documentation

    • Book

      • Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administrators

    • Cheat Sheet

      • Apache Cheat Sheet

• API

  • Design

    • Guidelines and Best Practices
      • ✅ Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines
      • Microsoft REST API Guidelines

  • Security

    • Checklist
      • API Security Checklist

• Reliability

  • Book
    • ✅ Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
    • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
    • The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE
    • Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice

• Distributed Systems

  • Book
    • Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms
    • Scalability Patterns: Best Practices for Designing High Volume Websites
    • Distributed Computing with Python

• Reactive Systems

  • Book
    • Reactive Microservices Architecture
    • Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python: Event-driven development unraveled with RxPY
    • Reactive Application Development

• Refactoring

  • Book

    • ✅ Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
    • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Distributed Architectures

  • Platform

    • ✅ Refactoring.guru

  • Video

    • Dive Into Refactoring

• Security

  • Book

    • The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
    • Application_Security_Program_Handbook - a guide for software engineers
    • Designing secure software - a guide for devlopers
    • Hacking APIs Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces
    • Web Application Security Exploitation and Countermeasures for Modern Web Applications
    • Web Security for Developers: Real Threats, Practical Defense
    • Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

  • WebSite

    • OWASP Top 10
    • OWASP Top 10 for Web with live training
    • SANS SWAT Checklist

• Monitoring

  • Article
    • log vs metric vs trace
    • things to know about observability mechanisms
    • The 3 pillars of observability: Logs, metrics and traces
    • Logging vs Tracing: Why Logs Aren’t Enough to Debug Your Microservices

• Soft Skill

  • Book
    • The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

• Public Cloud

  • Book

    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide with 900 Practice Test Questions: Associate (SAA-C03)
    • Cloud Native Python

  • Course

    • Learn AWS Automation with Boto3, Python, and Lambda Functions

• IoT

  • Protocol

    • Practical MQTT with Steve

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