Python: Automate the Boring Stuff Training Course
This instructor-led, live training is based on the popular book, "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", by Al Sweigart. It is aimed at beginners and covers essential Python programming concepts through practical, hands-on exercises and discussions. The focus is on learning to write code to dramatically increase office productivity.
By the end of this training, participants will know how to program in Python and apply this new skill for:
- Automating tasks by writing simple Python programs.
- Writing programs that can do text pattern recognition with "regular expressions".
- Programmatically generating and updating Excel spreadsheets.
- Parsing PDFs and Word documents.
- Crawling web sites and pulling information from online sources.
- Writing programs that send out email notifications.
- Use Python's debugging tools to quickly resolve bugs.
- Programmatically controlling the mouse and keyboard to click and type for you.
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice
Course Outline
Introduction to Python
Controlling the flow of your program
Working with lists
Working with the dictionary data type
Manipulating strings
Pattern matching with regular expressions
Reading, writing and managing files
Debugging your code
Pulling information from the internet (web scraping)
Working with Excel, Word, and PDF Documents
Working with CSV and JSON
Keeping time
Scheduling tasks
Launching programs
Sending emails and other messages
Manipulating images
GUI Automation
Closing remarks
Requirements
- No programming experience is required.
- Basic computer skills: surfing websites, running programs, saving and opening documents, etc.
Audience
- Non-programmers wishing to learn programming with Python
- Professionals and company teams wishing to optimize their office productivity
- Managers wishing to automate tedious processes and workflows
Open Training Courses require 5+ participants.
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Testimonials (5)
The trainer is a very well-disposed person and has a lot of knowledge of the topic. He was always there to ask our questions and to help out with our doubts
Bruno
Course - Python: Automate the Boring Stuff
The fact that we spoke about almost the entire scope of concepts within Python's universe in just 14h, from 0 to hero, as they say.
Ricardo
Course - Python: Automate the Boring Stuff
Good stuff and good trainer knowledge
Hugo
Course - Python: Automate the Boring Stuff
Lots of examples of different cases, and materials which will be useful in future as I try to apply lessons to my work applications. Also, it was great that there were tasks to do at home in between lessons, as it gives the opportunity to pick up on the parts of the previous lesson, with which I struggled. If I had a question during a lesson, the teacher would gladly help and explain the problem, and the teacher had good expertise on all questions that were asked.
Raivis - Gravity Team
Course - Python: Automate the Boring Stuff
1:1 very intensive but learnt a lot.
Karen Dyke - BT
Course - Python: Automate the Boring Stuff
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