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Core Python 3: Advanced Flow Control

On occasion, the fundamental control-flow structures of Python can feel clumsy or limiting. This course will teach you extensions and alternatives to these basic structures that can help your code be easier to write and more likely to be correct.

Robert Smallshire - Pluralsight course - Core Python 3: Advanced Flow Control
by Robert Smallshire
Austin Bingham - Pluralsight course - Core Python 3: Advanced Flow Control
by Austin Bingham

What you'll learn

Complex flow control structures can be hard to write and harder to read. In this course, Core Python 3: Advanced Flow Control, you’ll learn to apply alternative techniques for flow control. First, you’ll explore loop-else clauses. Next, you’ll discover try-else clauses. Finally, you’ll learn how to perform mutli-way branching and leverage short-circuit evaluation. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of advanced Python flow control needed to create elegant, understandable, and fast programs.

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Robert Smallshire - Pluralsight course - Core Python 3: Advanced Flow Control
Robert Smallshire

Robert Smallshire is a founding director of Sixty North, a software product and consulting business in based in Norway. He has held several senior software architecture and technical management roles, and he is a regular conference speaker. Python is his weapon of choice.

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Austin Bingham - Pluralsight course - Core Python 3: Advanced Flow Control
Austin Bingham

Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. He's a native of Texas but currently lives in Norway where he writes software, runs a local software interest group, and presents and teaches whenever he can.

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