Online Training
Python Programming
Live online training course - classroom version also available
£1,295 + VAT (where applicable)
Three days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)
If you work with data, the chances are that you'll have heard of Python. You can use this versatile language to interrogate databases, scrape websites, produce statistical analysis of data ... and so much more.
This three-day course lets you find out what you've been missing. You'll learn not just how to write Python code but how to write good Python code (our trainers have many years of experience of building systems in VB, C#, SQL and other languages). Starting with the foundations of any programming language (such as variables, conditions and loops), you'll quickly move on to as many real-life examples as we can squeeze into the time available, using the powerful (and freely available) Visual Studio as a coding environment.
Course schedule
Here are our next few online Python programming course dates:
| Dates | Times | Price (excl. VAT) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13-15 Sep | 09:30-16:30 | £1,295 | Book |
| 05-07 Oct | 09:30-16:30 | £1,295 | Book |
| 09-11 Nov | 09:30-16:30 | £1,295 | Book |
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider creating your own customised online course to run on a date convenient to you).
Course Contents
The contents of this course are as follows:
Getting started
- What Python is used for
- Visual Studio
- Creating Python projects
- The interactive window
Basic coding
- Working with variables
- Getting input
- Printing output
Debugging programs
- Stepping through code
- Setting breakpoints
Working with data types
- Manipulating strings
- Formatting numbers
- Referencing dates
- Getting and converting type
Ranges
- Sequential ranges
- Custom ranges
Lists and tuples
- Creating lists
- Appending, popping, etc
- Lists versus tuples
If time
Working with sets
- Creating sets
- Set operations
If time
Dictionaries
- Key/value pairs
- Retrieving items
Slicing and splitting
- Slicing strings
- Slicing lists
- Splitting and joining
Conditions and loops
- Testing conditions
- Looping over lists
- Enumerating lists
If time
Comprehensions and maps
- Lambda functions
- Mapping functions to lists
Working with files
- Opening and closing
- Using WITH
- Reading and writing
- Looping over lines
Functions and modules
- Defining functions
- Importing modules
- Passing arguments
- Optional arguments
Error handling
- The try clause
- Handling exceptions
Useful standard modules
- Maths functions (MATH)
- Operating system calls (OS)
- Regular expressions (RE)
Working with web pages
- The REQUESTS module
- Scraping websites
- Processing HTML
If time
Working with JSON
- The JSON module
- Loading and dumping data
Working with databases
- The PYODBC module
- Connections and cursors
- Looping over rows
Data analysis
- NumPy and Panda
- Shaping data
- Creating dataframes
Visualising data
- An overview of MatPlotLib
- Python visuals in Power BI
Benefits of our online training
Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl online courses:
- Maximum of 5 people per class
- Excellent colour courseware manual posted to you in advance
- Pre-course set-up included in the days before the course
- No need to install any software on your computer
- All courses given by one of our 6 Wise Owl trainers
- 550 references viewable online
What other people have said
Many thanks to those listed below for kindly agreeing to let us use their names. All of the reviews are from the last 3 calendar years (although some may be for classroom courses):
Joyce Chow (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Morgan McGreevy (Valuation Office Agency)
Leo Skelly (Prima Group)
Adam Hughes (Volac International Ltd)
Roberto Roselli (Waltham Forest Council)
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How our live online training courses work
We've published a full summary of what it's like to attend a Wise Owl course online - here are the main things you need to know.
You'll need three things for the course:
- A computer (obviously) running Windows.
- A good internet connection.
- A microphone and (ideally) webcam.
In addition you'll find the course very difficult without an additional monitor (so that you can participate in the course on one screen, and use the software you're learning on the other).
Within a few hours of your booking a place on one of our online courses, we'll be in touch to get you set up correctly. This usually takes about half an hour, and can be done at any mutually convenient date/time.
A few days before your course begins you'll receive a parcel in the post (free for UK bookings) containing:
- A full colour courseware manual;
- An exercise booklet to go with the course; and
- A USB stick containing the files for the course, should you need a back-up.
Your parcel will even include a Wise Owl Sheaffer biro (they're good; trust us) and pad.
You won't need to install any software at all on your computer. This is because:
- you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed; and
- we use Teams for our online training, which you can run through most modern browsers.
On the day of the course itself you will be able to join the course up to half an hour before it begins. This will give you time to:
- familiarise yourself with the set-up;
- meet your trainer; and
- get to know the other delegates!
After the course finishes you'll receive an electronic certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).
You can see full details of exactly how our online courses work here.