Python Developer Roadmap in 2021 🗺

Do you want to become a Python developer but don't know where to start? If that's the case, you're in the right place. In this roadmap, I will show you everything you need to know in order to become a python developer. Let's jump right into it!

Table of Contents

• Foundation 🐍
• Terminal/Command Prompt + Git/GitHub 💻
• Advanced Python 🐍
• Popular Libraries 📙
• Computer Science 🤓
• Web Scrapping 🗄️
• Web Development 🌐
• Scripting 📜
• Ethical Hacking 🤐
• Machine Learning/Data Science 🤖

Foundation 🐍

• Python 3 vs Python 2
• Code Editors (choose one)
  • Vim
  • VSCode
  • Sublime Text
  • PyCharm
  • Atom
  • Juypter Notebook
  • Google Colab
• How Python Works
• Python Interpreter
• Running Python Code
• Data Types and their Operations and Use
• Numbers, Operators, Operator Precedence
• Variables
• Type Conversion
• Indentation
• Logical Operators
• Conditionals - If, Else, Else if, Truthy, Falsey
• Loops: for, while, loop control statements (break, continue, etc)
• Functions: scope, parameters, arguments, return
• Built-in Functions
• Commenting: single-line, multi-line, docstrings

Terminal/Command Prompt + Git/GitHub 💻

• Basic Bash Commands
• Git Basics
• GitHub Basics
• Source Control

Advanced Python 🐍

• OOP
• Classes
• Dunder
• Methods
• Inheritance
• Decorators
• Functional Programming
• Lambda Functions
• Map, filter, zip, reduce
• Errors
• Error Handling: try, except
• File I/O
• Regex
• Testing, unittest
• Import
• Modules
• Packages
• Pip
• Virtual Environments
• Debugging

Popular Libraries 📙

• Tkinter
• Requests
• Pillow
• PyQT
• Pygame

Computer Science 🤓

• Time Complexity
• Space Complexity
• Big O Notation
• Data Structures
• Algorithms

Web Scrapping 🗄️

• Beautiful soup
• Selenium
• Scrapy

Project Ideas 🔥:

• Hacker News Scraper
• Dev.to Scrapper
• Amazon Price Tracker
• Jobs Portal Scraper
• COVID-19 Web Scraper

Web Development 🌐

• Django
• Flask
• Zappa
• Dash

Project Ideas 🔥:

• Login System
• Portfolio
• Blog Site
• Todo App
• Ecommerce website

Scripting 📜

• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle, etc
• System Admin

Project Ideas 🔥:

• Automate the Boring Stuff
• Create a Calculator
• Contact Book
• Directory Tree Generator
• Expense Tracker

Ethical Hacking 🤐

• SQL injection
• Session hijacking
• Man in the Middle
• Networking
• IP Adress
• Exploitation
• Social Engineering
• Pen Testing
• Footprinting
• Firewall

Project Ideas 🔥:

• Hacking wireless networks
• Create a vulnerable site and hack it
• Password cracker
• Web Application Pen Testing
• Break A Caesar Cipher

Machine Learning/Data Science 🤖

• Tensorflow
• PyTorch
• Keras
• Scikit-learn
• Numpy
• Pandas
• SciPy
• Matplotlib
• Seaborn
• Neural Networks
• Machine Learning Algorithms
• Data

Project Ideas 🔥:
You can check out the article I created covering 30 project ideas within the field of machine learning and data science.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading! I wish you the best in your journey in learning and mastering Python!

Henry

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