Introduction to Python Programming (sf)

• Write Python code using variable, data structures, loop constructs and understand the coding framework
• Understand and use various data types as required by the business objective
• Identify object-oriented programming techniques and utilize best practices of coding
• Use conditional statements and loop to control the flow of a Python program
• Understand and apply the various error handling techniques in Python to identify and mitigate errors in code
• Apply unit testing and assertion methods to test correctness of functions and Python codes
• Use libraries in Python to perform numerical computations and access data
• Extract data using web scraping techniques
• Formulate business questions and use Python programming to understand the data and answer the questions
• Understand how to create markdown and docstrings to document information
• Business cases to understand how Python programming can be effective in an organization setting

What You'll Learn

This is an introductory and beginners' course to learning and understanding the fundamentals of coding in Python, a powerful, modern, industry demanding language. Participants will learn to write programs, perform various operations, learn flow control, conditional statements and how to work with files and automate tasks. Participants completing this course will be prepared to code simple programs in Python!