Python Beginners Course

Course summary

Come join us, learn to code.

Our world is shaped by computer code: Dreamers use Twitter to start revolutions. People connect instantly to their faraway homes and families. Lockdown victims find romance via Dating apps. A friendly Amazon driver facilitates retails therapy. Business people conduct meetings via Zoom. Our imagination is the limit..

Where? Attend online, download anaconda.com

Who Should Attend? Entry level users of Python. We teach coding from scratch to intermediate.

Duration: 3 consecutive days, 11a, - 6pm

Our style: Hands-on, practical, Instructor-led, Online

Course Outline:

• Data Types, Variables, and Arrays: Primitive types; Boolean; Working with variables and its scope; Type conversion and casting.

  Operators and Expressions: Introduction of operators; Arithmetic operators; Relational operators; Assignment operator; Logical operators; Increment and decrement operators; More in operators.

  Decision Making: If statement; If - else statement; If- elif - else statement; Nested if - else;

  Using Loops: The while, while-else; do-while and the for loop; Enhanced for loop; Jump statements: break, continue; Nesting loops.

  Data Structures: Lists. Tuples. Dictionary.

  Using Built-in modules and functions. Pattern Matching. String Functions, Date Functions, Number Functions, Random Functions.

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.

  Using Modules: Creating and using Functions.

  Creating a Module in class; Calling a Module; Returning value from a Module; Adding a Method that takes parameters;

  Introduction to Classes and Objects: Creating a Class; Creating an Object; Using an Object; Adding Instance variables; Controlling accessibility; Naming conventions for class members. Inner Classes.

  Class Constructors; Parameterized Constructors;.

  Inheritance. Override. Overload.

• Exception Handling: Fundamentals of exception handling; Exception types; Using try and catch; Multiple catch clauses; Nested try statements; Throw and throws; Final and else blocks.

  Files, streams: Open, Traverse, Read and Create Files: Csv, txt and Json Files.

  Database: Connect to a database, create Database, drop a database, create a table, alter tables, drop a table, insert, delete, update records, query a database and display results.