Python Career Lab 🚀

A Modular, Test-Driven Python Mastery Platform

Python-Career-Lab is an open-source, hands-on curriculum and test runner framework designed to teach practical software engineering, system utilities, databases, and APIs through progressive, verifiable missions.

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🎯 Architecture & Philosophy

Unlike traditional, passive programming tutorials, this lab focuses on:

• Real-World Systems Engineering: Building functional CLI tools, diagnostic sentinels, log analyzers, and API monitors.
• Test-Driven Verification: Every mission includes automated test harnesses providing instant, actionable feedback.
• Self-Contained Modules: Clear separation of briefings, source code, and validation suites.

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📂 Project Structure

Python-Career-Lab/
├── mission_01_inspector/    # Track 1: System info formatting & core data types
├── mission_02_sentinel/     # Track 1: Threshold alerting, booleans & branching logic
└── ...                      # Future tracks: Log analysis, SQLite databases, REST APIs

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🛠️ Quickstart

1. Activate the Virtual Environment:

   .venv\Scripts\activate

2. Run a Mission Solution:

   python mission_01_inspector/inspector.py

3. Run Automated Mission Verification:

   python mission_01_inspector/test_inspector.py