Python Foundations for AI Engineers
Python is the lingua franca of AI engineering. This course builds the foundation you need before touching PyTorch, LangChain, or data pipelines—virtual environments, dependency management, data structures for AI payloads, async API clients, and the idioms you'll see in every AI codebase. **What you'll learn:** - Professional project setup with venv and dependency management - Lists, dicts, and JSON patterns for LLM message and tool payloads - HTTP/API client patterns for LLM services - Async and error handling for production LLM gateways - One Python output-matching exercise for real syntax practice Perfect first course for engineers pivoting into AI. No prior ML experience required.
Instructor: Alex Rivera
Course Curriculum
Module 1: Python Environment & Tooling for AI
By the end of this module you'll structure an AI project with venv, dependencies, and environment-based configuration.
- Professional Python Setup for AI Projects
- Configuration, Secrets & Project Layout
- Modern Dependency Management with uv, pip & pyproject.toml
- Type Hints, Pydantic & Developer Tooling for AI Codebases
- Lab: Filter AI Model NamesLab
- Module 1: Python SetupQuiz
Module 2: Data Handling for AI Payloads
By the end of this module you'll parse, validate, and transform JSON message and tool payloads used in LLM applications.
- Lists, Comprehensions & Filtering for AI Pipelines
- Dictionaries, JSON & LLM Message Structures
- Parsing & Validating LLM JSON Outputs
- Nested Payloads, Tool Calls & Metadata Patterns
- Lab: Extract Tool Name from JSONLab
- Module 2: Data HandlingQuiz
Module 3: Async APIs & Error Handling for LLM Clients
By the end of this module you'll implement retry logic with exponential backoff—the pattern every production API client uses.
- Sync & Async HTTP for LLM APIs
- Retries, Rate Limits & Production Clients
- Async Concurrency Patterns for High-Throughput Gateways
- Error Taxonomy, Circuit Breakers & Fallback Strategies
- Lab: Exponential BackoffLab
- Module 3: APIs & AsyncQuiz
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- Hands-on coding exercises
- Module knowledge check quizzes
- Downloadable resources
- Progress tracking dashboard