3 Useful Projects to learn Python Classes

Author : misterrimbad

Publish Date : 2020-12-15 09:02:34

3 Useful Projects to learn Python Classes

Introduction

I have recently wanted to learn more about Python classes, which is a concept at the core of object-oriented programming languages. While reading article tutorials gave me somewhat of a high-level view of what classes are and how they work, I could tell I did not really retain the content of the tutorials I was going through.

Definitions and examples seemed too abstract, and I could not picture a need for using my own classes while using a language that already has so many ready-made packages and libraries that tackle 99% of your common needs as a programmer which uses Python to work with data.

I then decided to look for a project-based approach to learning, and I stumbled onto the FreeCodeCamp Scientific Computing with Python Projects, which I completed this year. 3 out of these 5 projects are class-based, and thus looked perfect to tackle my learning goals.

What follows is then a brief overview of what to expect if you will decide to jump onto a project-based approach to learning classes via these 3 projects. It worked wonders for me and hopefully it will be useful for you as well.

The Projects

The focus of the challenges(to be honest, they are more self-contained than fully fledged projects, and thus the name “challenge” feels more appropriate here) is more around building self-contained pieces of functionality (i.e. Python objects that display a certain set of features and that allow for either numerical computation or visual representation) rather than building a massive workflow. In this regard, the setup is not too dissimilar from that of classic coding challenges, although these are probably a bit longer.

Each challenge is tested against various unit tests which challenge your code under different conditions.

This is not massively different from the work a Python programmer will find himself/herself doing once on a project, where you will be potentially required to define your own custom objects that will be tailored to the problem at hand, maybe because other open-source packages just do not fit the bill in terms of getting you the precise result you want

The projects are based in “pure” Python, with almost no external libraries needed. Project number 2 is the only one if which you will make use of the random and copy packages (which are recommended, not mandatory).

Goal: “Create a Budget class that can instantiate objects based on different budget categories like food, clothing, and entertainment. These objects should allow for depositing and withdrawing funds from each category, as well computing category balances and transferring balance amounts between categories”

Considerations: this is a very interesting project as it allows not only to comprehend how a class is initialized and used, but also represented and used as input to other functions. You will learn how to add methods to your classes and print them in a way that allows complex representation of your class object at different points in the program. As a bonus, you will define a function that computes how much money you are spending across class categories as a % of your total expenses, something that can be very useful for the money-savvy programmers among you.

Approach: define the purpose and flexibility of a class object; build its class methods using a modular approach and develop an understanding for how different instances of the same class can interact.

https://vansgergio.medium.com/3-useful-projects-to-learn-python-classes-23f5050b3577

Key concepts: Class initialization, instance methods and instance representation. Defining and using functions that tak

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