Kraken

Industry-level tutoring from Silicon Valley Software Engineers

Get A Head Start

Programming is a promising yet massive and constantly evolving field. With the right guidance, we can navigate through the weeds and learn only the concepts that are actually used in industry.

What You'll Learn

Basics

Data Types
Variables
Control Flow (for while if else)
Functions
Modules/Imports
Common Data Structures

Input and Output

Strings II
User Input
File Input/Output
Command Line Input
Network IO (tcp, intro to http)

Data

Sorting and Filtering
List transformations
Key-value databases
Database indexing

Web Programming

HTTP
Client/Server
requests library
json
HTML and parsing
Scraping vs. APIs

Advanced Python

Min/Max
reversed, sorted, lambda
context managers, decorators, generators
Useful standard libraries (itertools, etc.), where to find more
ipython, ipdb

Software Engineering

git, git, and more git
terminal, bash, linux/macos
Package Managers, docker
Unit Testing, Integration Testing
Editors, IDEs
Relational Databases

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Why Kraken

Apprenticeship-style tutoring offers the fastest path from complete beginner to employable and even sought-after by top tech companies. Learn more about the Kraken approach.