Getting Started
- Introduction Video
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Skip the basics if you understand this code
Let's first determine your current Python skill level so that you know where to start the course.
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Your First Python Program
Learn how to create and run your first Python program from scratch.
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The Command Line
Learn how to navigate your computer using the powerful command line interface.
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The Python Shell
Learn how to use the Python shell for writing and running lines of Python code instantly.
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Python Basics
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Small-Code Example
Let's look at the output of the Python program that we're going to explain line by line throughout this section.
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Variables
Learn how to create Python variables and understand why they are used in programming.
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Strings
Learn how to create strings and understand when to use them in a Python program.
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Numbers
Learn the different types of numbers available in Python and the difference between them.
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Variables (Practice)
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Get Variable Value (Practice)
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Programming Tip
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Math Operators
Here's what mathematical operations you can perform with numbers.
- Math Operators (Practice)
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Built-in Functions
Learn how to use various built-in functions in Python and see a complete list of them.
- Simple Sum (Practice)
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Lists
Learn how to create and use Python lists.
- Lists (Practice)
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List Indexing and Slicing
Learn how to modify a list and access data items from it.
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List Slicing Examples
Here are some more examples of slicing lists.
- Indexing (Practice)
- Slicing (Practice)
- More on Indexing (Practice)
- More on Slicing (Practice)
- List Indexing (Practice)
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List Methods
Learn how to apply methods on a Python list.
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Quiz 1: Indexing and Slicing
Test your knowledge about indexing and slicing strings and lists.
- Append to List (Practice)
- Remove from List (Practice)
- Append from List to List (Practice)
- Concatenate List Items (Practice)
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Tuples
Learn how to create and use tuple datatypes in Python.
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Dictionaries
Learn how to create a dictionary and when to use one in Python.
- Create Dictionary (Practice)
- More Operations with Dictionaries
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User Input
Learn how to make a program that asks the user to submit input and the program processes that input.
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Conditionals
Learn how to implement decision making in a Python programs through conditional expressions.
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Conditionals with Multiple Conditions
Learn how to create conditional blocks that check for more than two conditions at once.
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Conditionals
Test your knowledge about Python conditional.
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Custom Functions
Learn how to create your own functions in Python.
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Custom Functions: Example
See how a custom function is implemented in the current Python project.
- Create Function (Practice)
- Exponential Function (Practice)
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Custom Functions: Return vs Print
Learn when to use "return" and when to use "print" in a Python function.
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Custom Functions with Conditionals
See how to implement a conditional block inside a function.
- Calculate Length (Practice)
- Solution
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Custom Functions with Multiple Parameters
Learn how to create functions that have more than one parameter.
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Sum up Function (Practice)
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Function Output (Practice)
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Custom Functions with Default Parameters
Learn how to set default values to function parameters.
- Function with Default Parameters (Practice)
- Weather Function (Practice)
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- Functions and if-else (Practice)
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- Functions and if-elif-else (Practice)
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Opening Files in Python
Learn how to open a text file in Python and read its content.
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Working with File Paths
Learn how to use various file path formats in a Python program.
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Processing File Content
Use Python to further process the content of a text file.
- Reading Files (Practice)
- Solution
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For Loops
Learn how to execute an action multiple times via for loops.
- For Loops (Practice)
- Solution
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For Loops
Test your knowledge about for loops.
- For Loop with Conditional Block (Practice)
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- File Content Length (Practice)
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- Functions, Conditionals, and Loops (Practice)
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Writing Text to a File
Use Python to create a text file and write text in that file.
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Appending Text to a File
Use Python to append text to an existing text file.
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Reading and Appending Text to a File
Learn how to open a text file in Python for both reading and appending text.
- Write Multiple Lines in a Text File (Practice)
- Tip: Writing Multiple Lines in a Text File
- Solution
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Section Introduction
Here is what you will learn in this section.
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Setting Up
Setting up the tools.
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While Loop
Learn how to perform iterations based on a condition.
- While Loop with Password Checker
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String Formatting
Learn how to manipulate strings in Python.
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Modules, Libraries, and Packages
Learn what are Python modules, libraries and packages and how to use them.
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Installing Python Libraries
Here is how to install Python third party packages.
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Dates and Times
Learn how to perform operations with dates and times in Python.
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Datetime Formatting Codes
Find what can you use as a formatting code for the datetime module.
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Looping Multiple Sequences
Learn how to iterate through multiple sequences simultaneously.
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The "with" Context Manager
Learn how to handle files efficiently using the "with" statement.
- Files, Loops, Functions, and Conditionals (Practice)
- Solution
- Merging Text Files (Practice)
- Tips: Merging Text Files
- Solution
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Fixing Programming Errors
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Syntax Errors
Learn to understand and easily fix syntax errors that may arise in your Python programs.
- Runtime Errors
- Errors
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How to Fix Difficult Errors
How to Fix Difficult Errors
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Good Programming Questions
Good Programming Questions
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Error Handling
Learn how to capture and handle an error at runtime.
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Bài tập thực tế 1: Build an Interactive Dictionary
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Program Demonstration
Demonstration of the finished version of the interactive dictionary program that provides definitions for any given word in English.
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The Data Source
Explaining the data used by the program to find the words and their definitions.
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Loading JSON Data
Loading the JSON data file into a Python dictionary using the json module.
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Returning the Definition of a Word
Creating a Python function that returns the definition for any given word in English.
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Accounting for non-existing Words
Adding a conditional to the program that is able to understand whether a word exists or not in the dictionary.
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Implementing Case Sensitivity
Modifying the program by counting for scenarios when the user enters a word in different letter cases.
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Similarity Ratio Between Two Words
Calculating the ratio of similarity between any two given words.
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Best Matches out of a List of Words
Finding the best match of a mistyped word out of a big list of words.
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Recommending the Best Match
Implementing the similarity check into the program.
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Confirmation from the User
Prompting the user to confirm whether the suggested word is what they meant to enter or not.
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Optimizing the Final Output
Making the output generated by the program more readable.
- Fixing a program bug (Practice)
- Solution
- Fixing another bug (Practice)
- Solution
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Numpy
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What is Numpy?
Get introduced to the scientific computing Numpy library.
- Installing OpenCV
- Convert Images to Numpy Arrays
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Indexing, Slicing, and Iterating Numpy Arrays
Learn how to extract portions from Numpy arrays.
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Stacking and Splitting Numpy Arrays
Learn to concatenate and split Numpy arrays.
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Bài tập thực tế 2: Build a Website with Python and Flask
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Program Demonstration
Video showing the finished website.
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Your First Website
Learn how to built a very basic version of a website.
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HTML Templates
Learn how to render HTML webpages with Python Flask.
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Navigation Menu
Learn how to create a menu bar with menu items.
- Note on Browser Caching
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CSS Styling
Learn how to integrate CSS for a beautiful website.
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Creating a Python Virtual Environment
Learn how to create and use Python virtual environments with virtualenv.
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How to Install Git
Learn how to install git on your computer.
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Deploying the Website to a Live Server
Learn how to upload your website to the Heroku live servers.
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Maintaining the Live Website
Learn how to add and change content in your test environment and upload it to production.
- Troubleshooting
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Graphical User Interfaces with Tkinter
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Introduction to Tkinter
Learn how to use Tkinter for creating GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces).
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Setting up a GUI with Widgets
Learn how to create a basic graphical user interface.
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Connecting GUI Widgets with Callback Functions
Learn how to associate your GUI to Python functions.
- Create a Multi-widget GUI (Practice)
- Solution
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Interacting with Databases with Python
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Introduction to "Python with Databases"
Learn the concept behind working with databases in Python.
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Connecting and Inserting Data to SQLite via Python
Learn how to establish a database connection and insert data to an SQLite database.
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Selecting, Inserting, Deleting, and Updating SQLite Records
Learn how to select, insert, delete, and update records from an SQLite database.
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Introduction to PostgreSQL Psycopg2
Learn how to interact with a PostGreSQL database with Python.
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Selecting, Inserting, Deleting, and Updating PostgreSQL Records
Learn how to select, insert, delete, and update records from a PostGreSQL database.
- Querying data from a MySQL database
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Bài tập thực tế 3: Build a Desktop Database Application
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Program Demonstration
Video showing the finished version of application #3.
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User Interface Design
Designing the user interface.
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Frontend Interface
Building the graphical user interface with Tkinter.
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Backend
Writing the code that handles database interaction.
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Connecting the Frontend to the Backend, Part 1
Connecting the graphical user interface with the database script, part 1.
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Connecting the Frontend to the Backend, Part 2
Connecting the graphical user interface with the database script, part 2.
- Fixing the Bug (Practice)
- Solution
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Creating a Standalone Executable Version of the Program
Creating a user-friendly standalone desktop application that runs on every computer.
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Object Oriented Programming
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Object Oriented Programming Explained
Learn the concept behind OOP (Object Oriented Programming) with real world applications.
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Turning this Application into OOP Style, Part 1
Learning OOP by converting an existing application to a OOP design, part 1.
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Turning this Application into OOP Style, Part 2
Learning OOP by converting an existing application to a OOP design, part 2.
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Creating a Bank Account Object
Creating a OOP based application from scratch.
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Inheritance
Learn how to create classes out of existing classes.
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OOP Glossary
Get a summary of all OOP terms.
- GUI in OOP Design (Practice)
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Python for Image and Video Processing with OpenCV
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Introduction
Learn how Python works for creating computer vision applications.
- Installing the Library
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Loading, Displaying, Resizing, and Writing Images
Learn how to load images in Python, and display, resize and create new images.
- Batch Image Resizing (Practice)
- Solution
- Solution with Explanations
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Face Detection
Learn how to detect faces from pictures.
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Capturing Video
Learn how to capture webcam video with Python.
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Bài tập thực tế 4: Build a Webcam Motion Detector
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Program Demonstration
Video showing the finished version of application #4.
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Detecting Webcam Objects
Learn how to detect and highlight moving object in a real time webcam video.
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Capturing Motion Time
Recording the timestamps when of an object enters and exists the video frame.
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Interactive Data Visualization with Python
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Introduction to Bokeh
Get introduced to the Bokeh browser-based interactive data visualization library.
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Installing Bokeh
This lecture shows how to easily install the Bokeh library.
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Your First Bokeh Plot
Learn how to generate a simple Bokeh plot.
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Plotting Triangles and Circle Glyphs (Practice)
Practice how to plot different elements on a Bokeh graph.
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Solution
This contains the code to build triangle and circle plots with Bokeh.
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Using Bokeh with Pandas
Learn how to generate a Bokeh plot out of a CSV file via Pandas.
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Plotting Education Data (Practice)
Try to use the given data and plot them into a Bokeh chart.
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Solution
The code that plots education data into a Bokeh graph.
- Note on Loading Excel Files
- Plot Properties
- Plotting Weather Data (Practice)
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Visual Attributes
Learn how to change the color, font, size and other attributes of your Bokeh plots.
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Time-series Plots
Learn how to plot data extending over time with Bokeh.
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More Visualization Examples with Bokeh
Get to know with various graph examples built with Bokeh.
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Plotting Time Intervals of the Motion Detector
Using Bokeh to generate a plot of time intervals out of the motion detector output data which was built in application #4.
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Hover Tool Implementation
Learn how to implements pop up text when hovering the mouse over a plot element.
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Webscraping with BeautifulSoup
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Section Introduction
A 2-minute introduction to web scrapping.
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The Concept Behind Webscraping
Get to know with how Python is able to scrape data from the web.
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Webscraping Example
Use the Requests and Beautiful Soup libraries for scrapping information from a simple webpage.
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Bài tập thực tế 5: Build a Web-based Financial Graph
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Program Demonstration
Video showing the finished version of application #5.
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Downloading Datasets with Python
Learn how to use an API that downloads up-to-date recent data from various web data sources.
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Stock Market Data
Learn what stock market data are.
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Learn about how candlestick charts represent stock market data.
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Stock Market Data Candlestick Charts
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Candlestick Charts with Bokeh Quadrants
Learn how to use Bokeh quadrants to build candlestick charts.
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Candlestick Charts with Bokeh Rectangles
Learn how to use Bokeh rectangles to build candlestick charts.
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Candlestick Segments
Creating vertical segments in the candlestick chart.
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Stylizing the Chart
Learn how to make the chart visually-appealing.
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The Concept Behind Embedding Bokeh Charts in a Flask Webpage
Learn how embedding Bokeh charts to webpages works.
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Embedding the Bokeh Chart in a Webpage
Learn how to embed a Bokeh candlestick chart in a Flask website.
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Deploying the Chart Website to a Live Server
Deploying the website containing the financial chart to a Heroku live server.
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Bài tập thực tế 6: Student Project on Building a Geocoder Web Service
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Program Demonstration
Video showing the finished version of application #6 expected to be built by students.
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Solution, Part 1
Video showing the solution code for building application #6, part 1.
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Solution, Part 2
Video showing the solution code for building application #6, part 2.
- End of the Course
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