Starting with JSON

Dictionaries, Sets, Related Data Structures, Serialization/Deserialization

Created by: Dr. Fred Baptiste
Software Engineer and Mathematician

What Will I Learn?

• Associative Arrays
• Hash Tables and Hash Functions
• Python's implementation of hash tables
• Dictionaries and Sets
• Defining hash functions for our custom classes and why that is useful
• Creating customized dictionaries using the UserDict class
• defaultdict
• OrderedDict and Python3.6+ equivalences
• Counter (multi-sets)
• ChainMap
• Serialization and Deserialization
• JSON serialization/deserialization
• Intro to JSONSchema, Marshmallow, PyYaml and Serpy 3rd party libraries

Requirements

• This is an advanced course, so a solid Python foundation is necessary
• Jupyter Notebooks
• functional programming (zip, map, sorted, any, all, etc)
• lambdas, closures and decorators
• built-in decorators such as @lru_cache, @singledispatch and @wraps
• iterables, iterators, generators and context managers
• variable scopes and namespaces (globals, locals, etc)
• ability to install 3rd party libraries (e.g. pip install)

Target audience

• Python developers who want a deeper understanding of Python dictionaries and related topics