Do you want to learn how to use Python and ChatGPT faster than ever, but don't know where to start? Perfect! You've made it to the right course.

In this concise quick start coding guide, no time is wasted teaching you everything you need to know about programming with Python and supercharging your coding with ChatGPT. Meet your instructor, Cobalt, who has been professionally writing code for 25 years and teaching beginners and experienced programmers to write and improve their code regardless of skill level and experience.

By the end of the course, you will have learned the following skills:

1. Python Fundamentals

   An introduction to Python, including an in-depth walkthrough of the Pycharm website layout and interface. You’ll learn about the basic concepts of programming, such as the anatomy of a script, algorithms, variables, data types, and an overview of Python as a programming language. From there, we’ll dive deeper into control flow and the choices the language makes based on branching structures, and how to handle common errors through the process of debugging.

   
   - Getting started with Python
   - Understand control flow, syntax, data types, and functions
   - Develop your own custom code

2. ChatGPT: Fix and Supercharge Your Code

   A step-by-step guide to ChatGPT, including the program interface and how to create an OpenAI account. You’ll then use a pre-rolled prompt that generates code in ChatGPT. You’ll learn how to refine your prompts, ChatGPT’s basic algorithms and efficiency, its weaknesses and limitations, how to fix coding issues, and how to prompt the chatbot to explain sorting algorithms.

   
   - Strengths and weaknesses of ChatGPT
   - Use ChatGPT to quickly write code
   - Prompt ChatGPT to improve and iterate your coding projects faster than ever before

    

3. Build Your Own Utility Script
   You will familiarize yourself with the anatomy of a script and how to create a piece of code that is designed to perform specific auxiliary tasks or provide additional functionality to other main programs. Additionally, understanding the interplay between the main program and these auxiliary scripts will enhance your efficiency and problem-solving skills in coding.
   
   - Fundamentals of utility scripts
   - Learn simplified code like operators, whitespace, control flow, and interaction
   - Dive into the script anatomy of a calculator script

    

4. Create a Customized Web Server
   You will dive into the world of modules and re-factoring to build your own web server. Use Python to optimize importing from external libraries and eliminate various time-consuming tasks.
   
   - Basics of modules and re-factoring
   - Make new modules
   - Learn about packaging and pip to turn your own library into a package

    

5. Design Your Own Games

   You will explore the concept of packing object data together with code as well as inheritance to build your own games. Write code to define the game's behavior and test gameplay to ensure smooth functionality and user experience.
   
   - Build your own Blackjack game and more
   - Embed GPT into games like Cards Against Humanity
   - Write a card game of your choice using your own card library

6. Engineer Custom API Architecture

   You will learn about the best practices of file I/O (input and output) in Python, modes of file access, handling exceptions in file I/O, API endpoint, basic POST endpoint, and JSON data structures to understand API integration and architecture. 
   
   - Use GPT to write the boilerplate for a call to an outside API

   - Write API integration for a social media platform

   - Write API integration to auto-submit your resume to LinkedIn