Python Programming 1

Course Overview

Python is an object oriented rapid development language deployed in many scenarios in the modern world. This Python Programming 1 course is designed to give delegates the knowledge to develop and maintain Python scripts using the current version (V3) of Python.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• Writing and testing simple scripts

• Representing data using built-in and custom data types

• Building expressions

• Building conditional and iterative statements

• Declaring and calling functions

• Using objects

• Creating and manipulating collections including lists, tuples, and dictionaries

• Creating and manipulating strings

• Creating modules and packages, and using third-party libraries

• Pattern matching

• Working with date and time objects

• Handling exceptions

• Reading from and writing to files and databases

• Coding in an OOP manner

Who will the course benefit?

The Python Programming 1 course is aimed at anyone who wants to learn Python as a first language, and developers/engineers who want to migrate to Python from another language, particularly those with little or no object-oriented knowledge.

Entry Requirements

Delegates attending this course should be able to define general programming concepts including compilation and execution, variables, arrays, sequence, selection and iteration, navigate the filesystem (on the command line ideally), edit and save text files and browse the web. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-requisite Introduction to Programming course.