This lesson provides a brief introduction to the principles of object-oriented programming in Python. While most of the principles taught are applicable to all object-oriented languages, some are taught in a way that is more idiomatic in Python than in other programming languages, and it isn't possible to show the additional advantages of using object-oriented programming in statically- typed compiled languages.
We welcome all contributions to improve the lesson! Maintainers will do their best to help you if you have any questions, concerns, or experience any difficulties along the way.
To build the material, do:
- git clone git@github.com:pletzer/python-oop-novice.git
- cd python-oop-novice
- make serve
You might need to install ruby and bundler, see here on how to install these packages on Ubuntu. "make serve" will serve the pages at http://127.0.0.1:4000.
The material can be access here where USERNAME is your Github username.
We'd like to ask you to familiarize yourself with our Contribution Guide and have a look at the more detailed guidelines on proper formatting, ways to render the lesson locally, and even how to write new episodes.
Please see the current list of [issues][FIXME] for ideas for contributing to this
repository. For making your contribution, we use the GitHub flow, which is
nicely explained in the chapter Contributing to a Project in Pro Git
by Scott Chacon.
Look for the tag 
Current maintainers of this lesson are
- Ed Bennett
- Mark Dawson
- Alexander Pletzer
A list of contributors to the lesson can be found in AUTHORS
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