Functional Programming in Python – Certificate of Completion

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Cheuk Yung Leung

has successfully completed

Functional Programming in Python

a course of study offered by Real Python (realpython.com), an online learning platform and expert community for Python software developers.

Completion Date: Jan. 23, 2021

Verification ID: 654dd512-636c-478b-8435-29af4760307c

Course Description

Skill level: advanced

In this course, you'll learn how to approach functional programming in Python. You'll cover what functional programming is, how you can use immutable data structures to represent your data, as well as how to use filter(), map(), and reduce().

Section 1: Immutable Data Structures

1. Functional Programming Course Overview

2. What Is Functional Programming?

3. Mutable Data Structures: Lists and Dictionaries

4. Immutable Data Structures: namedtuple

5. Danger Zone: Mixing Mutable and Immutable Data Structures

6. Immutable Data Structures: Tuples

Section 2: The filter() Function

1. The filter() Function: Overview

2. What Is the filter() Function?

3. Storing Filtered Data in a Tuple

4. Why Use the filter() Function?

5. Filtering List Comprehensions

Section 3: The map() Function

1. The map() Function: Overview

2. What Is the map() Function?

3. How to Use the map() Function

4. The map() Function vs Generator Expressions

5. Why Use the map() Function?

Section 4: The reduce() Function

1. The reduce() Function: Overview

2. What Is the reduce() Function?

3. Why Use the reduce() Function?

4. Grouping Data With itertools.groupby()

Section 5: Parallel Processing With multiprocessing

1. Parallel Processing With multiprocessing: Overview

2. Multiprocessing Testbed Overview

3. The multiprocessing Module

4. Measuring Execution Time in the multiprocessing Testbed

5. How to Create a multiprocessing.Pool() Object

6. How to Use multiprocessing.Pool()

7. Parallel Processing With multiprocessing: Conclusion

Section 6: Parallel Processing With concurrent.futures

1. Parallel Processing With concurrent.futures: Overview

2. The concurrent.futures Module

3. How Functional Programing Makes Parallel Processing Simple

4. concurrent.futures vs multiprocessing

5. When to Use concurrent.futures or multiprocessing

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