Advanced Python - 1 Day Training Course
During this instructor-led live training, participants will acquire advanced Python programming techniques, demonstrating how to leverage this versatile language to address challenges in areas such as distributed applications, data analysis and visualisation, UI programming, and maintenance scripting.
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions.
- Extensive exercises and practice sessions.
- Practical implementation within a live-lab environment.
Customisation Options
- Should you wish to add, remove, or customise any section or topic within this course, please contact us to make arrangements.
Course Outline
Python Data Structures and Operations
- Integers and floats
- Strings and bytes
- Tuples and lists
- Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
- Sets and frozen sets
Object-Oriented Programming with Python
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
- Static classes
- Static functions
- Decorators
Data Analysis with Pandas
- Data frames (pandas)
- Data cleaning
- Utilising vectorised data in pandas
- Data wrangling
- Sorting and filtering data
- Aggregate operations
- Analysing time series
Data Visualisation
- Plotting diagrams with matplotlib
- Using matplotlib from within pandas
- Creating high-quality diagrams
Vectorising Data in Numpy
- Creating Numpy arrays
Python for the Web
- Packages for web processing
- Web crawling
- Parsing HTML and XML
- Automatically filling web forms
Requirements
- Beginner to intermediate programming experience.
- Familiarity with mathematics and statistics.
- Understanding of database concepts.
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Testimonials (2)
Hands-on exercises related to content really helps to understand more about each topic. Also, style of start class with lecture and continue with hands-on exercise is good and helpful to relate with the lecture that presented earlier.
Nazeera Mohamad - Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Course - Introduction to Data Science and AI using Python
Examples/exercices perfectly adapted to our domain
Luc - CS Group
Course - Scaling Data Analysis with Python and Dask
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