This Python Programming course has become essential to all professional who would like to do data analytics, data science or machine learning using Python. It is a beginners course and teaches coding from scratch to intermediate. Hands-on, practical.

Bring your own laptop.

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for programmers who need to write or maintain scripts in Python. This course is also suitable for trainee programmers who may have little, to no in-depth knowledge of programming.

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.

  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.