Data Training Courses

Python Foundation Course

Who should attend

Python is the most popular open-source language. People who want to use Python in their work. This is a foundation course in Python suitable for beginners. It focuses on using Python for data analysis.

Course Length

2 days

Learning Objectives

You will get a taste for Python and what it can do. You will learn how to get started in Python; use common Python libraries and write your own functions in Python.

Pre-requisites

None. This is a beginner level course.

Course Content

Get started in Python: Write Hello World in Python. Using Jupyter notebooks to write, test, and document Python scripts.

Running Python in Google Colab (a free browser-based service for editing and running Python code)

Python Language fundamentals: syntax, variables, control flow, loops

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.

What is an API and how to retrieve data from APIs with the requests package.

Data structures: Why they are useful and ubiquitous.

lists: create, append, remove, sort, elements in a list. Loop through the elements with a list comprehension
tuples, create, use in functions and unpack into variables
dicts, and their many uses.