Course Information
Course Overview
Python is a powerful and versatile programming language used in a variety of applications including web, desktop, & more
It's not often that you get to use a language as powerful and as versatile as Python. Python is a great language for writing web applications, cross-platform desktop applications, Artificial Intelligence software, shell scripts, perform scientific computation, and even create home automation software. To master these skills, you'll need a solid understanding of the Python language. In this course, Programming with Python, you'll start by learning the fundamentals of the language before venturing out to learn more advanced concepts like working with functions, modules, strings, numbers, dates and times, data structures, control statements, and much more. When you are finished with this course, you'll have a solid foundation to go out and build your own applications using Python.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 130 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Getting Started
- Section 2 Python Essentials
- Section 3 Control Statements
- Section 4 Functions and Modules
- Section 5 Strings
- Section 6 Numbers
- Section 7 Dates and Times
- Section 8 Lists and Tuples
- Section 9 Dictionaries
- Section 10 File I/O and File OS
What You’ll Learn
- Define what Python is and how to install the necessary software including Eclipse and Python
- Understand the fundamentals of the Python programming language
- Work with control statements including loops and conditionals
- Break out code into reusable functions and modules
- Work with strings, numbers, dates, and times
- Use data structures such as lists, tuples, and dictionaries
- Read and write to text and CSV files with file I/O concepts
- Pickle and unpickle binary data
- Create, rename, and delete folders and directories with file OS
- Handle exceptions
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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RRon Maultsby
Lot's of examples and good explanations.
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SSara Powers
This course was a great introduction and overview of Python. The best part of the course are the many examples. They are very useful and easy to follow along. I would recommend this course to anyone who is looking for an introduction to Python as well as anyone who is looking to brush up on programming skills and gain experience coding real programs.
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AAlfiia Osipova
This course was a great foundation into the Python programming world. I got a solid understanding of all of the necessary concepts of this language. I really like Zak's teaching style. I have access to exercise files and can practice right away.
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MMasanobu HIRAOKA
To set the Atom, I encountered the error message of "Could not find Python 3.8". Other than this, almost all of lectures were suitable for me. Thanks.