Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming, available at $119.99, has an average rating of 4.65, with 51 lectures, 2 quizzes, based on 113906 reviews, and has 1131717 subscribers.

You will learn about 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. This course is ideal for individuals who are Office workers, students, small/home business workers, and administrators would want to improve their productivity. or Aspiring software engineers who want to add skills to their programming toolbelt. or Computer users who have heard the "learn to code" message, but want practical reasons to learn programming. or 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. or 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. It is particularly useful for Office workers, students, small/home business workers, and administrators would want to improve their productivity. or Aspiring software engineers who want to add skills to their programming toolbelt. or Computer users who have heard the "learn to code" message, but want practical reasons to learn programming. or 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. or 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.

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Summary

Title: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming

Price: $119.99

Average Rating: 4.65

Number of Lectures: 51

Number of Quizzes: 2

Number of Published Lectures: 51

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 53

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 53

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

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.

Who Should Attend

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.

Target Audiences

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.

If you’re an office worker, student, administrator, or just want to become more productive with your computer, programming will allow you write code that can automate tedious tasks. 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. You don’t need to know sorting algorithms or object-oriented programming, so this course skips all the computer science and concentrates on writing code that gets stuff done.

This course is for complete beginners and covers the popular Python programming language. You’ll learn basic concepts as well as:

Web scraping
Parsing PDFs and Excel spreadsheets
Automating the keyboard and mouse
Sending emails and texts
And several other practical topics

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.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Python Basics

Lecture 1: Get Python Installed

Lecture 2: Basic Terminology and Using IDLE

Lecture 3: Writing Our First Program

Chapter 2: Flow Control

Lecture 1: Flow Charts and Basic Flow Control Concepts

Lecture 2: If, Else, and Elif Statements

Lecture 3: While Loops

Lecture 4: For Loops

Chapter 3: Functions

Lecture 1: Python's Built-In Functions

Lecture 2: Writing Your Own Functions

Lecture 3: Global and Local Scopes

Chapter 4: Handling Errors with try/except

Lecture 1: Try and Except Statements

Chapter 5: Writing a Complete Program: Guess the Number

Lecture 1: Writing a "Guess the Number" Program

Chapter 6: Lists

Lecture 1: The List Data Type

Lecture 2: For Loops with Lists, Multiple Assignment, and Augmented Operators

Lecture 3: List Methods

Lecture 4: Similarities Between Lists and Strings

Chapter 7: Dictionaries

Lecture 1: The Dictionary Data Type

Lecture 2: Data Structures

Chapter 8: More About Strings

Lecture 1: Advanced String Syntax

Lecture 2: String Methods

Lecture 3: String Formatting

Chapter 9: Running Programs from the Command Line

Lecture 1: Launching Python Programs from Outside IDLE

Chapter 10: Regular Expressions

Lecture 1: Regular Expression Basics

Lecture 2: Regex Groups and the Pipe Character

Lecture 3: Repetition in Regex Patterns and Greedy/Nongreedy Matching

Lecture 4: Regex Character Classes and the findall() Method

Lecture 5: Regex Dot-Star and the Caret/Dollar Characters

Lecture 6: Regex sub() Method and Verbose Mode

Lecture 7: Regex Example Program: A Phone and Email Scraper

Chapter 11: Files

Lecture 1: Filenames and Absolute/Relative File Paths

Lecture 2: Reading and Writing Plaintext Files

Lecture 3: Copying and Moving Files and Folders

Lecture 4: Deleting Files

Lecture 5: Walking a Directory Tree

Chapter 12: Debugging

Lecture 1: The raise and assert Statements

Lecture 2: Logging

Lecture 3: Using the Debugger

Chapter 13: Web Scraping

Lecture 1: The webbrowser Module

Lecture 2: Downloading from the Web with the Requests Module

Lecture 3: Parsing HTML with the Beautiful Soup Module

Lecture 4: Controlling the Browser with the Selenium Module

Chapter 14: Excel, Word, and PDF Documents

Lecture 1: Reading Excel Spreadsheets

Lecture 2: Editing Excel Spreadsheets

Lecture 3: Reading and Editing PDFs

Lecture 4: Reading and Editing Word Documents

Chapter 15: Email

Lecture 1: Sending Emails

Lecture 2: Checking Your Email Inbox

Chapter 16: GUI Automation

Lecture 1: Controlling the Mouse from Python

Lecture 2: Controlling the Keyboard from Python

Lecture 3: Screenshots and Image Recognition

Lecture 4: Congratulations! (And next steps…)

Instructors

Al Sweigart
Software developer, tech book author

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3 stars: 6885 votes
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