Course Outline
Introduction to Python Programming
- Executing Python code
- Utilising Python development environments, including IDEs and command-line interfaces
- Interacting with Python and iPython shells, as well as iPython Notebook
Data Types and Operations
- Integers and floating-point numbers – potentially unnecessary
- Strings and byte sequences – potentially unnecessary
- Tuples and lists
- Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
- Sets and frozen sets
Organising and Distributing Code
- Building modules and packages
- Publishing code to repositories
Object-Oriented and Functional Programming
- Defining and applying functions and classes
- Extending function and class behaviour using decorators
- An introduction to metaclasses
Error Handling and Testing
- Catching and raising exceptions
- Developing and running tests, including doc tests and unit tests
- Assessing code coverage through testing
File and Directory Management
- Accessing various file formats and understanding file handling principles
- Creating, reading, updating, and deleting files, covering regular text files, CSVs, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents
- Extracting data from text files using Regular Expressions
- Creating and removing directories, as well as listing and locating files
Requirements
None.
Testimonials (7)
everything was perfect
Florin Vrincianu
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
The fact that the trainer could guide us and correct if needed and explained what was wrongly done
Roxana - Emilia Zamfir
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
Felt like a rounded introduction to python, giving me the confidence to immediately tackle some basic level progs before attempting something more substantial
Graham - Quantum Detectors Ltd
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
I liked that I could ask questions and Abhi did answer all of them providing excellent examples.
Bozena - New College Durham
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
Everything was OK. Trainer very well prepared and I really enjoyed the course.
Gelep Dragos
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
The course was straight forward, intuitive, easy to follow, the exercises covered the subjects discussed beforehand.
Alexandru - BRD
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
The knowledgeability.