Zomalex | Data and AI Training
Python Foundation Course
Who should attend
Python is the most popular open-source language. People who want to understand if Python could be useful in their work. This is a foundation course in Python suitable for beginners.
Learning Objectives
You will get a taste for Python and what it can do. You will learn how to get started in Python.
Course Content
Get started in Python: Write Hello World in Python.
Write and run Python in Google Colab notebooks (a free browser-based service for editing and running Python code)
Python Language fundamentals
- basic syntax and the REPL (read-evaluate-print-loop) interactive approach to coding,
- variables and why these are useful,
- control flow: branching with if – elif – else and looping with for and while,
- Python’s intrinsic data types: int, float and str (strings)
How to index and slice arrays such as strings and lists, and why this is useful.
Data structures: Why they are useful and ubiquitous.
- lists: create, append, remove, sort, elements in a list.
- tuples, create, use in functions and unpack into variables
- dicts, and their many uses.
A quick tour of some popular useful Python libraries, for example:
- the datetime module for handling dates and date arithmetic
- the requests module for getting data from web pages
- the math and statistics modules
Course Length
Either 1 day (short course) or preferably 2 days (full course)
Pre-requisites
None. This is a beginner level course.
Snapshots from the course exercises
Python code in a code editor