Python 3 Essentials

An introductory and beyond-level practical, hands-on Python training course that leads the student from the basics of writing and running Python scripts to more advanced features.

Course Objectives:
Throughout the course students will be led through a series of progressively advanced topics, where each topic consists of lecture, group discussion, comprehensive hands-on lab exercises, and lab review.

This course is “skills-centric”, designed to train attendees in core Python and web development skills beyond an intermediate level, coupling the most current, effective techniques with best practices. Working within in an engaging, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert Python practitioner, students will learn to:

• Create working Python scripts following best practices

• Use python data types appropriately

• Read and write files with both text and binary data

• Search and replace text with regular expressions

• Get familiar with the standard library and its work-saving modules

• Use lesser-known but powerful Python data types

• Create "real-world", professional Python applications

• Work with dates, times, and calendars

• Know when to use collections such as lists, dictionaries, and sets

• Understand Pythonic features such as comprehensions and iterators

• Write robust code using exception handling