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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming 

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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
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Overview

A practical programming course for office workers, academics, and administrators who want to improve their productivity

Duration

10 hours

Total fee

2,299

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Udemy
  • Learn from 95 downloadable resources
  • Get full lifetime access of the course material
  • Comes with 30 days money back guarantee
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For Office workers, students, small/home business workers, and administrators would want to improve their productivity
  • For Aspiring software engineers who want to add skills to their programming toolbelt
  • For Computer users who have heard the "learn to code" message, but want practical reasons to learn programming
  • For Experienced Python software engineers can skip the first half of the course, but may find the later parts that cover various third-party modules helpful
What are the course deliverables?
  • Automate tasks on their computer by writing simple Python programs
  • Write programs that can do text pattern recognition with "regular expressions"
  • Programmatically generate and update Excel spreadsheets
  • Parse PDFs and Word documents
  • Crawl web sites and pull information from online sources
  • Write programs that send out email notifications
  • Use Python's debugging tools to quickly figure out bugs in your code
  • Programmatically control the mouse and keyboard to click and type for you
More about this course
  • This course follows the popular (and free!) book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
  • Automate the Boring Stuff with Python was written for people who want to get up to speed writing small programs that do practical tasks as soon as possible
  • This course skips all the computer science and concentrates on writing code that gets stuff done
  • By the end of this course, you'll be able to write code that not only dramatically increases your productivity, but also be able to list this fun and creative skill on your resume

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
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Curriculum

Python Basics

Get Python Installed

Basic Terminology and Using IDLE

Writing Our First Program

Flow Control

Flow Charts and Basic Flow Control Concepts

If, Else, and Elif Statements

While Loops

For Loops

Functions

Python's Built-In Functions

Writing Your Own Functions

Global and Local Scopes

Handling Errors with try/except

Try and Except Statements

Writing a Complete Program: Guess the Number

Writing a "Guess the Number" Program

Lists

The List Data Type

For Loops with Lists, Multiple Assignment, and Augmented Operators

List Methods

Similarities Between Lists and Strings

Dictionaries

The Dictionary Data Type

Data Structures

More About Strings

Advanced String Syntax

String Methods

String Formatting

Running Programs from the Command Line

Launching Python Programs from Outside IDLE

Regular Expressions

Regular Expression Basics

Regex Groups and the Pipe Character

Repetition in Regex Patterns and Greedy/Nongreedy Matching

Regex Character Classes and the findall() Method

Regex Dot-Star and the Caret/Dollar Characters

Regex sub() Method and Verbose Mode

Regex Example Program: A Phone and Email Scraper

Files

Filenames and Absolute/Relative File Paths

Reading and Writing Plaintext Files

Copying and Moving Files and Folders

Deleting Files

Walking a Directory Tree

Debugging

The raise and assert Statements

Logging

Using the Debugger

Web Scraping

The webbrowser Module

Downloading from the Web with the Requests Module

Parsing HTML with the Beautiful Soup Module

Controlling the Browser with the Selenium Module

Excel, Word, and PDF Documents

Reading Excel Spreadsheets

Editing Excel Spreadsheets

Reading and Editing PDFs

Reading and Editing Word Documents

Email

Sending Emails

Checking Your Email Inbox

GUI Automation

Controlling the Mouse from Python

Controlling the Keyboard from Python

Screenshots and Image Recognition

Congratulations! (And next steps...)

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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
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Faculty details

Al Sweigart
Al Sweigart is a software developer and author. He has written eight programming books, spoken at Python conferences, and has taught both kids and adults how to program.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
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Learning Experience: Learning experience was good
Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
Course Support: Career support was helpful
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Other: I got knowledge about the basics of python programming
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Other: This is a great course to get started with Python, and making tasks easier. I took this in conjunction with another course, and it reinforced good practices, as well as teaching new topics and giving real-life examples of the uses. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to learn Python.
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