Learn Object Oriented Programming in Python

Object-oriented programming is a pattern for organizing code that's critical whether or not you plan to make use of inheritance. Understand its most important tenets.

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Lane Wagner

Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.

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What will you learn?

Learn the fundamentals of the most widely-used programming paradigm today: object-oriented programming. You will model real-world problems within your programs, and learn how to write code that is easy to understand and maintain. By the end of this course you'll be writing production-quality Python code.

Chapter List

Clean Code

Understand why we have programming paradigms in the first place, and how they help us write more maintainable code

Classes

Learn about classes and objects, and how OOP differs from a functional programming paradigm.

Encapsulation

Learn how to write cleaner code by encapsulating data and methods.

Abstraction

Abstraction is a powerful tool that will make your code more robust and reusable.

Inheritance

The crux of OOP is the ability to inherit data and behaviors from other classes

Polymorphism

Polymorphism is one of the best ideas we've had as developers, learn how it works.

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this one is challenging as hell, i hope you enjoy it

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nice course get hard towards the end

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Noe

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If you come from other OOP languages and want to see more of it, definitely try it

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Felt like i really understood the essential concept for the first time, with analogies and lessons t...

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Learned some OOP.

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Instructions sometimes confusing

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Very helpful

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Greate intro into OOP. Take the class!

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Learn Object Oriented Programming in Python

Object-oriented programming is a pattern for organizing code that's critical whether or not you plan to make use of inheritance. Understand its most important tenets.

Lane Wagner

Matt

Allan

Hunter

Dan

What will you learn?

Chapter List

Join 41,416 students in the Learn Object Oriented Programming in Python course

Read reviews of their learning experiences

this one is challenging as hell, i hope you enjoy it

now i am master classer

nice course get hard towards the end

If you come from other OOP languages and want to see more of it, definitely try it

Felt like i really understood the essential concept for the first time, with analogies and lessons t...

Learned some OOP.

Instructions sometimes confusing

Very helpful

Greate intro into OOP. Take the class!

Mediocrity doesn't cut it anymore

The only way to become a great developer is to write a lot of code

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