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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