Python Programming Beginners Course, 1 Day, Online Instructor-Led

Python Basics: Course Description

Excellent for beginners, practical, in small groups of max 4 people, 1 Day Online Instructor-led.

You could contact us for your prefereed date.

Session 1: Python Data Types and Variables:

• Primitive types; Characters & Strings; Boolean; Working with variables and its scope; Conversion and casting types in Python.
• Operators and Expressions:
• Introduction of operators; Arithmetic operators; Relational operators; Assignment operator; Logical operators; Increment and decrement operators..
• Exercise: Calculate Movie Tickets for a Party, Are there enough seats in the cinema?

Decision Making & Loops

• If statement; If - else statement; If- elif - else statement; Nested if - else;
• Exercise: Calculate the travel fee to deliver goods
• The while, For loop
• Jump statements: break, continue;
• Nesting loops.
• Exercise: Enter a password, if incorrect 3 times, you are blocked.

Session 2: Data Structures

• Lists.
• Tuples.
• Exercise: Hangman Game
• Exercise: Get a word for the game from a Json File, store the high score in a Dictionary file

Session 3: Files and exceptions

• Exception Handling, Exception types; Using try and Except.
• Files, streams: Open, Traverse, Read and Create Files: Csv, txt and Json Files.
• API: Connecting to API’s.

Session 4: OOP

• Creating and using custom Functions.
• Using parameters and return values.
• Creating a Class; Creating an Object; Using an Object; Adding Instance variables;
• Class Constructors; Parameterized Constructors.
• Inheritance. Override.

Session 5: Pandas Dataframe Basics

• Getting data into a dataframe: Dict to Dataframe, Dataframe to Dict. Excel To Dict, Dict to Excel , working with Excel data, multiple Excel sheets.
• Getting information about the dataframe,
• Filter, sort and query a Dataframes, Slicing Dataframes,
• Duplicate values,Working with null-values, Sampling.
• Exercise: Query the top 1000 grossing movies of the last century

Session 6: Built in Functions: String, Math, Random

• Python built-in functions:
• Strings functions. Maths functions. Random Functions.
• Exercise: Find information in prose, to get the sentiment of the prose.
• Exercise: Get a word for the game from a txt File
• Exercise: Win the lottery

Included:

• PCWorkshops's Python Programming Basics Certification
• Course notes, exercises and code examples
• Revision session after the course

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