Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
9 Hour(s) 30 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Al Sweigart
Rating
3 views
Course Overview
A practical programming course for office workers, academics, and administrators who want to improve their productivity.
If you're an office worker, student, administrator, or just want to become more productive with your computer, programming will allow you write code that can automate tedious tasks. This course follows the popular (and free!) book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python was written for people who want to get up to speed writing small programs that do practical tasks as soon as possible. You don't need to know sorting algorithms or object-oriented programming, so this course skips all the computer science and concentrates on writing code that gets stuff done.
This course is for complete beginners and covers the popular Python programming language. You'll learn basic concepts as well as:
- Web scraping
- Parsing PDFs and Excel spreadsheets
- Automating the keyboard and mouse
- Sending emails and texts
- And several other practical topics
By the end of this course, you'll be able to write code that not only dramatically increases your productivity, but also be able to list this fun and creative skill on your resume.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 51 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Python Basics
- Section 2 Flow Control
- Section 3 Functions
- Section 4 Handling Errors with try/except
- Section 5 Writing a Complete Program: Guess the Number
- Section 6 Lists
- Section 7 Dictionaries
- Section 8 More About Strings
- Section 9 Running Programs from the Command Line
- Section 10 Regular Expressions
What You’ll Learn
- Automate tasks on their computer by writing simple Python programs.
- Write programs that can do text pattern recognition with "regular expressions".
- Programmatically generate and update Excel spreadsheets.
- Parse PDFs and Word documents.
- Crawl web sites and pull information from online sources.
- Write programs that send out email notifications.
- Use Python's debugging tools to quickly figure out bugs in your code.
- Programmatically control the mouse and keyboard to click and type for you.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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KKirk Jelly
Very easy to follow and gives comprehensive information about what he's teaching. Some things were out of date but the solutions were easy to find.
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EEleanor Haig
I wanted a course to cover the basics of python and examples of where to use it, and this was perfect.
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CCyril Alexandar
The Python part of the course is good. However when it involves interaction with third party software, some of them have not been updated, and don't work. This gave me an opportunity to search on the internet and get the correct updated code, and to try and continue the lessons. While looking up, I learned different things. Thanks anyways. cyril.a
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EErick Renteria
Very good explanation, it goes very well if you have some python knowledge.
