Python 3 Essentials

Course Objectives

Throughout the course students will be led through a series of progressively advanced topics, where each topic consists of lecture, group discussion, comprehensive hands-on lab exercises, and lab review. This course is “skills-centric”, designed to train attendees in core Python and web development skills beyond an intermediate level, coupling the most current, effective techniques with best practices. Working within in an engaging, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert Python practitioner, students will learn to: • Create working Python scripts following best practices • Use python data types appropriately • Read and write files with both text and binary data • Search and replace text with regular expressions • Get familiar with the standard library and its work-saving modules • Use lesser-known but powerful Python data types • Create "real-world", professional Python applications • Work with dates, times, and calendars • Know when to use collections such as lists, dictionaries, and sets • Understand Pythonic features such as comprehensions and iterators • Write robust code using exception handling