Audience

This course will benefit programmers, web developers, and anyone who needs to support or create programs (including CGI scripts) using Python. Python is being taught in schools with increasing popularity and ICT teachers new to Python or wishing to brush up their knowledge will benefit greatly.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a basic understanding of both programming and object oriented concepts.

Duration

3 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

The Python language is a very powerful scripting language created on an object model.

This course covers all of the basic syntax and functions of the language.

Our 2 day Advanced Python Programming course is also available as a perfect follow-on.

Course Content

Python introduction
Variables and built in functions
Flow control
Defining functions and modules
Testing and debugging
Lists and tuples
File I/O
Exceptions
Numeric functions
String functions
Dates and times
Dictionaries and data structures