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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.

Use Jupyter notebooks to write, test, and document Python scripts.

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

Write and run Python in VSCode (a free and very popular code editor)

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.

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.
• tuples, create, use in functions and unpack into variables
• dicts, and their many uses.

List comprehensions and their many uses.