Python Projects for Beginners a ten-Week Bootcamp Approach to Python Programming

Continue Building

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  Always be working on projects and trying to improve your portfolio.
  
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  Stay up to date with the latest libraries, languages, and technologies.
  
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  Update your resume and portfolio often.
  

Adventure Out

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  Go out to local networking events in your area. This is where you’ll meet most of your connections. It’s always easier to land a job when you know someone who works in the company.
  
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  Events like code alongs, or hackathons, are a great way to meet other developers looking to work together.
  

Rejection

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  It happens, you won’t always get the job. If it does occur, be sure to ask the interviewer in a courteous manner as to why you didn’t get the job. Don’t take it personally; instead use this information to become a better developer and improve.
  

today was all about understanding the interview process and how you can improve your interviewing skills. Even the greatest programmers can be terrible interviewers. it takes a lot of hard work and focus to land the proper job, and even then, it may not work out. the best advice is to just continue to improve your skills and network with other software developers.
Weekly Summary
This week was the second portion of the more advanced Python concepts. Much of the lessons taught this week were important for not only interviewing but for improving the performance of your projects. Iterators and generators are a type of object that can be used to create better looping structures and algorithms. Being able to use decorators will help to improve function capabilities and are widely used within frameworks like Flask or Django. Modules allow us to use other developer’s code by importing the functions or entire files into our program. Being able to write our own modules allows us to reduce the amount of code in each file. You generally want to stay as organized as possible because it makes the project easier to read, maintain, and fix. If there’s one topic you need to understand from this week, however, it would be Big O Notation. Understanding how Big O works can help in job interviews and knowing how to improve the speed of an application. There are more advanced topics to cover on Python and programming in general, but these last two weeks will give you enough to start building your own projects and even move on to learning about frameworks and larger-scale applications using databases.
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