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Python Intermediate Course

Who should attend

People who have attended the Python foundation course and want to improve their Python skills.

Course Length

Either 1 day (short course) or preferably 2 days (full course)

Learning Objectives

You will learn how about functions and list comprehensions. You will see some practical applications of automating tasks with Python.

Pre-requisites

Completion of the Python foundation course.

Course Content

The Python language

• List comprehensions and their many uses.
• Write and use functions: the basic structure of a function, positional and named arguments, return values.

Practical Python: Some examples of automating tasks with Python: for example:

• create and read Excel files
• scrape data from web sites
• retrieve data from APIs, for example the OpenAI API for access to ChatGPT
• a very brief introduction to data analysis and visualisation with the numpy, pandas and seaborn packages. (These are covered in detail in the advanced course.)

A few comments from attendees of previous courses

“This was such a great course and the presenter was very thorough and reviewed new concepts a few times. It was also very engaging and easy to follow.”

“Mark was very clear in explaining things, and made sure we were all at the same stage before moving on.”