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..

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

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

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.