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This course is designed for anyone who needs to learn how to write programs in Python. Students should have taken the Software Development for Non-Programmers course or have some experience with at least one programming language.

Course Pre-requisites

Basic Python programming knowledge.
Content creating, editing text files and moving between directories at a command line
Basic Web Browsing experience

Course Content

Python Basics

Using the Interactive shell
Errors are OK
Math Operators: (precedence high to low)
Brackets to control Precedence
Common Data Types
String Concatenation & Replication
Assignment Statements
Valid and Invalid variable names
Your First Program
str(), int() & float() Functions
Text and number equivalence

Flow Control

Flow Charts
Boolean Values
Comparison Operators
Operating Application
Binary Boolean Operators
Operators Evaluation
Code Blocks
Flow control if else elif
while loop
break statement
continue statement
for loops & range
Importing Modules
Sys.exit ()

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Functions

def statement
return values
None value
Keyword Arguments and print()
Scope: Global can’t access local
Scope: local can’t use other local
Local and Global Variables with the Same Name
Exception Handling
try & except

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Lists

List data type
Multi-dimensional lists
Sub-lists with Slices
Changing values with indexes
List Concatenation and List Replication
Removing Values from Lists with del
Working with lists
Using for Loops with Lists
in and not in Operators
Multiple Assignment idiom
Methods
Value in a List with the index() Method
append(), insert() & remove() Method
sort() Method
Exceptions in Indentation
tuples immutable Lists
tuples Conversion
References
Passing References
copy Module’s copy() and deepcopy()

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Structuring Data with Dictionaries

Dictionary Data Type
keys() values() & items()
In the Dictionary
get() in Dictionaries
setdefault
Modelling the Real World
Tic-Tac-Toe
Shall we play a game ?
Nested Dictionaries

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Manipulating Strings

String Literals
Comments
Slicing strings
in strings
Useful string functions
isX String
startswith() & endswith()
join() & split()
rjust(), ljust() & center()
strip() rstrip() & lstrip()
Project: Password Locker
Project: Adding Bullets to wiki Markup

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Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions

Creating regex Objects
Multiple Matching Groups with |
zero or one match ?
zero or more match *
one or more +
Repetitions {}
Greedy Matches & findall
Character Classes
Matching Newlines re.DOTALL
Review of regex Symbols
Substituting Strings with the sub()

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Reading and Writing Files

Path names
file Names
File Size and Folder Contents
Path Validity
Reading From Files
Writing to files
Saving Variables with Shelve
Pretty Printing

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Organising Files

shutil Module and File Copies
Deletion
Walking the tree
Playing with zip files
Extracting from zips
Creating zip files

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Debugging

Debugging
Exceptions
Traceback
Assertions
logging
Logging Levels
Disabling Logging
IDLE Debugger

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Web Scraping

Web Scraping
webbrowser module
requests module
Missing Pages
Saving Pages
HTML
HTML Anchors
Chrome Developer Tools
BeautifulSoup
CSS Selectors
Finding an Element with the select() Method
Getting data from an Element’s Attributes
Controlling your browser with Selenium
Clicking the Page
Filling in Forms
Clicking on buttons

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Working with Excel

Working with Excel
example.xlsx
Getting Sheets from the Workbook
Getting Cells from the Sheets
Getting Rows and Columns from Sheets
Writing Excel Documents
Playing with Fonts
Dimensions
Merging Cells
Formulas
Freeze panes
Building Charts
Building Charts

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Working with PDF & word documents

Working with .pdf & .docx
Extracting Text from PDFs
Rotating PDFs
Reading Word Documents
Driving the styles
Writing Word Documents

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Working with CSV and JSON

Working with CSV and JSON
Extracting Text from CSV files
Reader Objects in a for Loop
Writer Objects
Delimiters and line terminators
Reading JSON with loads()
Writing JSON with the dumps()
REST APIs and JSON
REST API returns

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Keeping Time, Scheduling Task & Launching Programs

time Module
datetime Module
timedelta
datetime conversion to strings
strings to datetime objects
Threading
Threading

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Sending Email & text messages

smtplib Module
imapclient Module
pyzmail Module
Seaching Email
twilio
Seaching Email

To register your interest in this course please email Annette Coburn at skillnet@itcork.ie