Course Benefits
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:- Appreciate the brevity of Python and be able to get most tasks done using very few lines of code
- Operate on objects and know their capabilities
- Understand indentation rules and use decisions and loops
- Use list comprehensions to write brief code
- Design classes and apply OOP principles
- Use strings and regular expressions to process huge amounts of text easily
- Generate reports and formatted output
- Design functions and use advanced features like default arguments, keyword arguments, lambda functions, map and reduce
- Work with files and directories
- Interact with the environment, command line arguments and OS calls
- Build and use modules
- Access databases
- Communicate over the network
Target Audience
- Freshers who want to work on Python
- Developers who want to switch from mere programming to scripting in order to develop code faster
- Testers and administrators who want to automate
Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of C
- Knowledge of Perl and Java is preferable, though not required