Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
A practical programming course for office workers, academics, and administrators who want to improve their productivity.
What you’ll learn
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Automate tasks on their computer by writing simple Python programs.
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Write programs that can do text pattern recognition with “regular expressions”.
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Programmatically generate and update Excel spreadsheets.
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Parse PDFs and Word documents.
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Crawl web sites and pull information from online sources.
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Write programs that send out email notifications.
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Use Python’s debugging tools to quickly figure out bugs in your code.
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Programmatically control the mouse and keyboard to click and type for you.
Requirements
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No programming experience is required.
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Downloading and installing Python is covered at the start of the course.
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Basic computer skills: surfing websites, running programs, saving and opening documents, etc.
Who this course is for:
- Office workers, students, small/home business workers, and administrators would want to improve their productivity.
- Aspiring software engineers who want to add skills to their programming toolbelt.
- Computer users who have heard the “learn to code” message, but want practical reasons to learn programming.
- 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.
- While this course doesn’t cover specific devops tools, this course would be useful for QA, devops, and admins who want to learn scripting in Python.
