Introduction to Python Tools

This free online course on Python Tools explains Python as a language with a simple syntax, and a powerful set of libraries. Python is a general-purpose, versatile, and powerful programming language. It’s a great programming language because it’s concise and easy to read and everything from web development to machine learning and data science can be done with Python. If you have basic knowledge of Python, this Python course is a great next step because it discusses the Python Programming Tools, explains the Modules and Packages, Metaprogramming, and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). You will understand the major Python Tools used for preparing the data for analysis, the tools available for understanding the data, using the data for insights and predictions. The content critically explains APIs, their importance, and how it can provide you with increased functionality in your program. 

You will be introduced to core programming concepts like data structures, conditionals, loops, variables, and functions. It also provides you with coding exercises/assessments where you will learn to design and write fully-functional Python programs using commonly used data structures, custom functions, and reading/writing to files. The content discusses the basics of Python 3, including conditional execution and iteration as control structures, and strings and lists as data structures. You will learn what iterators and generators are, discuss the regular expressions in Python 3, identify the concept of introspection and lambda functions.

Python has worldwide popularity for very good reason - it is quick and stable enough for a vast amount of uses and this Introduction to Python Tools course is for anyone who perhaps needs a refresher on Python tools or if you may have had some exposure to Python programming but want to learn some more detailed skills.