Interactive Quiz ⋅ 5 QuestionsBy Martin Breuss Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of creating a Django project. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to create and activate a virtual environment, install Django and pin your dependencies, start a Django project, and start a Django app. You will also see how isolating dependencies helps others reproduce your setup. To revisit and keep learning, watch the video course on How to Set Up a Django Project. The […]

Watch Now This tutorial has a related video course created by the Real Python team. Watch it together with the written tutorial to deepen your understanding: How to Set Up a Django Project Before you can start building your Django web application, you need to set up your Django project. In this guide you’ll learn how to create a new Django project in four straightforward steps and only six commands: Step Description Command 1a Set up a virtual environment python […]

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is one of the most significant and essential topics in programming. This course will give you a foundational conceptual understanding of object-oriented programming to help you elevate your Python skills. You’ll learn how to define custom types using classes and how to instantiate those classes into Python objects that can be used throughout your program. Finally, you’ll discover how classes can inherit from one another, with a brief introduction to inheritance, enabling you to write maintainable and […]

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 5 QuestionsBy Philipp Acsany Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Indent in Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to properly indent Python code, choose helpful editor settings, use spaces properly, apply code formatters, and explain why indentation is required. The quiz contains 5 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct answer. At the end of the quiz, you’ll receive a total score. […]

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 6 QuestionsBy Philipp Acsany Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Convert Python Bytes to Strings tutorial. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to decode bytes, choose an encoding, and turn binary data into readable text. You’ll also see how encodings map byte values to characters so you can handle data from files, databases, and APIs with confidence. For a deeper dive, check out Python Encodings: A Guide and Python Bytes. The […]

If you want to learn Python or improve your skills, a detailed plan can help you gauge your current status and navigate toward a target goal. This tutorial will help you craft a personal Python learning roadmap so you can track your progress and stay accountable to your goals and timeline: The steps in this tutorial are useful for Python developers and learners of all experience levels. While you may be eager to start learning,    

Cursor is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Visual Studio Code codebase. It comes with a multi-agent interface and the Composer model for fast, agentic coding while keeping a familiar editor workflow with project-aware chat, code completion, and inline edits. In this course, you will: Understand why Cursor might work for you Learn how to use different modes & models See how to run multiple agents at a time Resolve a tiny merge conflict Run a project […]

As we welcome 2026, it’s time to look back on an exciting year for Python. Python 3.14 arrived with a wave of developer-focused improvements, from lazy annotations that finally resolve long-standing type hinting quirks to clever new t-strings that give you more control over string interpolation. Meanwhile, 2025 was the year AI tools truly became part of everyday Python development. From agentic coding with LangGraph to connecting LLMs to your data via MCP servers, Python solidified its position as the […]

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 8 QuestionsBy Leodanis Pozo Ramos Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the LlamaIndex in Python: A RAG Guide With Examples tutorial. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to create and persist an index to disk, review how to reload it, and see why persistence improves performance, lowers costs, saves time, and keeps results consistent. The quiz contains 8 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point for each correct […]