Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our engaging expert instructor you'll learn how 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 
• Work with dates, times, and calendars 
• Know when to use collections such as lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets 
• Understand Pythonic features such as list comprehensions and generators 
• Write robust code using exception handling 
• Work with basics for network programming 
• Create and use virtual environments 

This course is rich with hands-on activities, challenge labs, knowledge checks, valuable discussions and focused projects that can be done individually or in groups. Guided by our engaging, highly-experienced instructor, you'll work within our user-friendly Learning Experience Platform (LXP) that combines the best aspects of in-person live training with our robust hands-on online environment. You'll have extensive opportunities for live engagement, practice and review. You'll exit this program equipped with the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to put your new Python skills right to work. 

This course is geared for technical users who are new to Python. Roles might include developers, software engineers, data analysts who want to enhance data processing, system administrators and web site administrators who want to use Python to support their server installations, developers who want more efficient web solutions, as well as anyone else who wants to automate or simplify common tasks with the use of Python scripts. 

If you are coming from a non-technical background, you might consider the TTPS4803: Python for Everyone: Getting Started with Python Basics for Non-Developers (4 days) as an alternative to this course. If you want additional topics beyond the basics, you might consider the TTPS4820 Mastering Python Programming Boot Camp five day superset of this course.  

Please note that topics, agenda and labs are subject to change, and may adjust during live delivery based on audience skill level, interests and participation. 

The Python Environment 

• Starting Python 
• Using the interpreter 
• Running a Python script 
• Editors and IDEs 

Variables and Values 

• Using variables 
• Builtin functions 
• String data 
• Numeric data 
• Converting types 

Basic input and output 

• Writing to the screen 
• String formatting 
• Command line arguments 
• Reading the keyboard 

Flow Control 

• About flow control 
• The if statement 
• Relational and Boolean values 
• while loops 
• Exiting from loops 

Array types 

• Sequence types in general 
• Lists and list methods 
• Tuples 
• Indexing and slicing 
• Iterating through a sequence 
• Sequence functions, keywords, and operators 
• List comprehensions and generators 

Working with files 

• File I/O overview 
• Opening a text file 
• Reading a text file 
• Writing to a text file 

Dictionaries and Sets 

• About dictionaries 
• Creating dictionaries 
• Getting values 
• Iterating through a dictionary 
• About sets 
• Creating sets 
• Working with sets 

Functions 

• Defining functions 
• Returning values 
• Parameters and arguments 
• Variable scope 

Sorting 

• The sorted() function 
• Custom sort keys 
• Lambda functions 
• Sorting in reverse 
• Using min() and max() 

Exception handling and logging 

• Exceptions 
• Using try/catch/else/finally 
• Handling multiple exceptions 
• Logging setup 
• Basic logging 

Modules and Packages 

• Creating Modules 
• The import statement 
• Module search path 
• Using packages 
• Function and Module aliases 

Introduction to Classes 

• About object-oriented programming 
• Defining classes 
• Constructors 
• Understanding self 
• Properties 
• Instance Methods and data 
• Class methods and data 
• Inheritance 

Alternative Five Day Course Note: 

If you want additional topics beyond the three day basics, you might consider the TTPS4820 Mastering Python Programming Boot Camp five day superset of this course, that includes the topics below in the additional two days of coverage: 

1. Regular Expressions 
2. Dates and times 
3. Working with the file system 
4. Advanced data handling 
5. Network programming 
6. Effective Scripts 
7. Virtual Environments