What You’ll Learn

• Writing and testing simple scripts
• Representing data using built-in and custom data types
• Building expressions
• Building conditional and iterative statements
• Declaring and calling functions
• Using objects
• Creating and manipulating collections including lists, tuples, and dictionaries
• Creating and manipulating strings
• Creating modules and packages, and using third-party libraries
• Pattern matching
• Working with date and time objects
• Handling exceptions
• Reading from and writing to files and databases
• Coding in an OOP manner

Who This Course Is For:

The Python Programming 1 course is aimed at anyone who wants to learn Python as a first language, and developers/engineers who want to migrate to Python from another language, particularly those with little or no object-oriented knowledge.

Requirements

Delegates attending this course should have some previous programming experience and be able to define general programming concepts including: compilation, execution, variables, arrays, sequence, selection, iteration, functions, objects, and classes. Moreover delegates should be able to navigate the filesystem (on the command line ideally), edit and save text files and browse the web. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-requisite Introduction to Programming course.

Description

This course aims to provide the delegate with the knowledge to be able to produce Python scripts and applications that exploit all core elements of the language including variables, expressions, selection and iteration, functions, objects, collections, strings, modules, pattern matching, exception handling, I/O, and classes.

Delivery Format: Virtual Learning Duration 3 Days