Python for Beginners

This Python course is for people new to programming. It is an introduction to Python and prior programming experience is not required. The course is very hands-on, so you will get plenty of coding practice. The main focus is on learning to work with APIs and datasets.

• Learn the basics of programming with Python
• Work with Python on your own laptop
• Develop code in Jupyter Notebooks
• Work with open source packages
• Make API calls
• Work with real world datasets
• Troubleshooting & debugging

• Data Types
• Data Collections
• For & While Loops
• Conditionals
• Functions
• Handling Files
• Dates and Time
• Modules & Packages
• Error handling
• Debugging
• API calls
• CSV & JSON data
• The "pandas" package

Participants will be asked to bring their own laptop, with Anaconda installed. Installation instructions will be send ahead of the course.