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Python Programming Essentials
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Outstanding Python programming by expert Digital Industry Investor+ FREE extensive resources | Free PDF Certificate

Summary

Price
£54.40 inc VAT
Or £18.13/mo. for 3 months...
Study method
Online
Course format
Video
Duration
16 hours · Self-paced
Access to content
1 year
Qualification
No formal qualification
CPD
16 CPD hours / points
Additional info
  • Exam(s) / assessment(s) is included in price

Overview

This extensive Python programming course is easy-to-learn with a FREE elaborate list of resources for beginners, financial experts, engineers, scientists, and many more. It expands from the core programming structures to NumPy, and Pandas for regression, classification, clustering, analysing, visualising data, and more.

Python is a popular programming language in the industry, service sector, research, and science to meet a wide range of requirements. With its massive number of libraries, Python enables integration with any third-party system. This easy-to-learn language has blurred the boundaries between users and developers. Employers increasingly value these programming skills from various business sectors, such as programming, web development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.

Exploring Python with a professional, serial entrepreneur background in digital marketing, technology, and business development can be no way to miss the opportunity to rewrite your future.

In this hands-on course, the instructor demonstrates how the software development industry works, the different roles within this language and how to land a Programming job.

The course demonstrates basic programming structures, core programming tools, scripts to perform automated actions, use variables, complex programs for practical industry scenarios, NumPy for numerical data, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Statistics for Data Science, regression, classification, clustering, and many more.

The course also includes an extensive resource for FREE for anyone willing to expand their understanding at any point of this course.

With basic programming experience, this course will make you confident in solving complex technical problems efficiently like professional Web Designers, Software Developers, Cyber Security managers, Database Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts, or Consultants.

This course also comes with a CPD Accredited certificate, and you will achieve the essential 16 CPD points for your Continuous Professional Development.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify the strength and demand of Python programming skills in the market
  • Use the basic data types, operators
  • Use advanced data types like Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries and Compound Data types
  • Understand how to use the conditional statements
  • Confidently use functions and loops
  • Use Error handlings with exceptions
  • Understand the use of Advanced functions like LAMBDA functions, Iterators, generator and yield, Map and Filter functions
  • Develop an understanding of scripting and libraries
  • Have a sound idea about NumPy, Pandas

Why Choose this Course?

  • Accredited by CPD
  • Developed and delivered by industry experts
  • Instant E-certificate
  • Entirely online
  • Self-paced learning and laptop, tablet, smartphone-friendly

And you will also get these gifts

  • Free PDF Certificate
  • 12 Months Course Access

CPD

16 CPD hours / points
Accredited by The CPD Group

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Description

Course Content

Module 1 - Introduction to Python Programming from A-Z

The instructor discusses the overview and planning of the course. All the different topics or lessons like what python programming is, who this course is for, a fundamental understanding of Python program, Python programmer job role, the various job opportunities, why it is most popular worldwide, and how this course overview is structured.

Module 2 - Resources

Demonstrates resources essential for Python programming and how to utilize and gain maximum benefits.

Module 3 - Getting Familiar with Python

Demonstrates How to install Python on windows, Anaconda, and Jupyter notebooks parts 1 & 2, Python syntax, Line structure with exercise, Comments, join lines, use multiple statements on a single line, and identication.

Module 4 - Basic Data Types

Demonstrates Basic data types section overview, Python variables, Integers and Float explanation, String in detail, Manipulation, How to index, Slicing, Boolean, expands to Printing, Mini project Letter Counter.

Module 5 - Python Operators

Overview demonstrates different types of operators like Arithmetic, Assignment, Comparison, and Logical expands to Identity, Membership, and Bitwise.

Module 6 - Advanced Data Types

Demonstrates advanced Python data types, List overview, Slicing and Indexing, Tuples, Sets, How and when to use Dictionaries, and Compound Data Types.

Module 7- Control Flow Part 1

Demonstrates Section Overview, Control Flow, Basic to more Conditional Statements, Loops, and while Loops importance.

Module 8 - Control Flow Part 2

Demonstrates Section Overview, Break and Continue Statements in Python, Zip, and Enumerate Function expands to List Comprehension.

Module 9 - Python Functions

Demonstrates Python Functions Overview, Intro to Python help Functions expand to Defining, Variable Scope, and Doc Strings.

Module 10 - User Input and Error Handling

Demonstrates section overview, Intro to Error Handling, User Input, Syntax Errors, Exceptions expand to Handling Exceptions part 1 to 2

Module 11 - Python Advanced Functions

Demonstrates overview, Lambda Functions, ARGS, KWARGS, Iterators, Generators, and Yield expand to Map and Filter Function.

Module 12 - Python Scripting and Libraries

Demonstrates section overview, Definition of a Script, Explanation of an IDE, Text Editor, From Jupyter Notebook to Vscode Part 1 to 2, Importing Scripts, Standard Libraries expand to the Third party.

Module 13 - NumPy

Section overview, Intro to NumPy, Importance, Numpy Arrays, Reshaping, Accessing and Modifying, Slicing and Copying, Inserting, Appending and Deleting in detail, Array Logical Indexing, and Broadcasting.

Module 14 - Pandas

Demonstrates Intro to Pandas, Series, Manipulation, and Dataframe expands to Dataframe Manipulation and Dealing With Missing Values.

Module 15 - Intro to OOP

Demonstrates Functional vs. OOP, Key Definitions, How to Create Your First Class, Use Objects, and How To Modify Attributes.

Module 16 - Advanced OOP

Demonstrates Python Decorators,Property, and Class Method expansion to Static and Inheritance From A to Z

Module 17 - Starting a Career in Python

Demonstrates Python Career Section Overview, How to get started with Freelancing, Building a brand, Personal Branding, Importance of Having a website/blog, Dos and dont of Networking, Top Freelance Website, and Creating A Python Developer Resume.

Assessment

You have to attend an online assessment by the end of the course. Assessments will instantly provide results. The successful assessment requirement is 60%. Learners are allowed multiple attempts to encourage them to achieve the desired score. However, every attempt will make the previous result invalid. This multiple assessment attempt is free of charge.

Certificates

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Transcripts

A Transcript for the course with completed module details can be requested for as little as £4.99. Please note that all course Certificates and Transcripts will be titled as published on the Course Central platform.

Who is this course for?

This Python course benefits beginners to professionals. Skills in Python are highly in demand across the world right now. In the UK, both large and small companies use python for their applications and automation systems. Python is one of the most popular languages among companies in the UK. There are many job openings in major IT companies for python developers.

Anyone can use Python for developing websites and software, task automation, data analysis, and data visualization. Since it's relatively easy to learn, Python has been adopted by many non-programmers, such as accountants and scientists, for a variety of everyday tasks, like organising finances.

Python can help to develop skills to further your career in data analytics, finance, web development, and data science. Python course is an unmatchable opportunity for those wishing to learn more about the data science industry, develop their existing data science knowledge, or stay relevant in an ever-evolving industry.

Students LOVE this Course

"Such a Great Course with simple Way to learn Python Programming." - Sofia Wyatt

"Very good python course, learned lots of things. Thanks to the instructor!" - James

"It was well explained and easy to follow." - Joshua O'Donnell

Requirements

No previous knowledge of this programming language is required.

Career path

Demand for Python developers is increasing, from python developers, python engineers, web designers, web developers, software developers, cyber security managers, database managers, software engineers, research assistants, researchers, data analysts, data scientists, programmers, test engineers, and not limited to this.

The salary expectation can grow from £60,000 per annum to £100,000 per annum.

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Is there a chosen date of when we can take the exams?

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How long do we have access to the content? Is there a time limit to when we take the exams ?

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Hi Sanj, Once purchased you will get lifetime access to the course. For the exam, you will get 60 minutes plus 5 retakes if you fail to pass at once.

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