Python lists, tuples, sets and dictionaries for intermediates

Target audience

Students who especially benefit from this course:

beginning programmers with ~6 months Python experience who want to take their coding skills to the next level
developers who bring experience from another programming language and want to learn how to work with lists in Python
self-taught Python developers who want to improve their list skills by learning best practices

What is a Container?: Container definition and the 4 built-in container types in Python
Lists: Create and change lists. Accessing elements, reverse, sort, count elements
Tuples: Create and unpack, assign, swap variables, tuples as return type
Dictionaries: Dictionary purpose, keys, lookup, iterate
Sets: Set purpose, mathematical operations, superset, subset
Common operations: Zip, enumerate, all, any, concatenate, check if element is in list
Slicing: Slice, head, tail, init, last
Comprehensions: Mapping, filtering, flatten, matrix

Make better decisions when to use one of the 4 built-in container types by seeing their specific features
Work with lists more efficiently by using Python-specific language features like unpacking, slicing and comprehensions
Optimize your existing code after learning that Python offers many built-in common list operations