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. Lonely hearts find romance via Tinder. An Uber driver is just around the corner. Electronic airplanes fly us to our holidays and election results are counted by apps. Our imagination is the limit.
This Python Programming course has become essential to all professional who would like to do data analytics, data science or machine learning using Python.
This course and teaches coding from scratch to intermediate.
Hands-on, practical.
Bring a laptop, or arrange to use ours.
Who Should Attend?
Entry level programmers who may have little in-depth knowledge of programming.
Course Outline:
Data Types, Variables: 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.
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