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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. It focuses on using Python for data analysis.

Course Length

2 days

Learning Objectives

You will learn how to use more powerful techniques in Python, including object-oriented and functional programming styles. You will learn how to use the fundamental Python packages for data analysis: numpy, pandas and matplotlib.

Pre-requisites

Completion of the Python foundation course.

Course Content

Writing functions in Python

A quick tour of some popular useful Python libraries: e.g., math, datetime, requests.

Functional Programming in Python

• what is Functional Programming and when is it useful?
• lambda functions
• the map function.
• the filter function.
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python

What is OOP and when is it useful?

• Classes
• Instance variables
• Instance Methods
• Properties – getters and setters
• Class methods

Other topics in this course, depending on the interest of attendees, may include:

• Handling exceptions with the try / except / finally block.
• Using Python in VSCode (a very popular editor)
• Regular Expressions
• Scraping data from web pages
• An example of machine learning