Certificate Course in Python Programming

The Certificate Course in Python Programming is a comprehensive program that covers the entire spectrum of Python programming, starting from the basics and progressing to advanced topics. The course emphasizes hands-on practical exercises, allowing learners to gain practical experience and develop problem-solving skills. It covers essential and core features of Python, including variables, data types, control structures, functions, modules, and file handling. Additionally, the course explores advanced concepts such as object-oriented programming (OOP), web scraping, and regular expressions.

After completing the course, learners will have a strong foundation in Python programming and will be able to build applications, automate tasks, and manipulate data effectively. They will also receive a certificate to validate their proficiency and enhance their career prospects.

You'll Learn

Module One

Intalling Python

  • Python on OS X
  • Python on Windows

Working with variables and data

  • Naming and using variables
  • Numbers, strings and boolean
  • Stripping whitespaces
  • Concatenating strings
  • Stripping whitespaces
  • Tabs and newlines
  • Integers and floats
  • Writing comments
  • Strings manipulation

Working with Lists and Tuples

  • Accessing Elements in a List
  • Working with Elements (appending, adding, sorting, deleting )
  • For Loop
  • Looping through an entire list
  • Slicing and looping through a slice
  • Copying a list
  • Organizing a list
  • List comprehension
  • Vertical summation
  • Defining a tuple
  • Tuples and Lists conversion
  • Looping through a Tuple

If and Conditional Statements

  • Various conditional tests ( equality and inequality checking )
  • Conditional testing on a list
  • Boolean Expressions
  • if-else , if-elif-else
  • Using if statement with multiple lists
  • Nesting Blocks
  • While Loop using a list
  • While Loop using a flag
  • Flow control with break statement
  • Flow control with continue statement

Dictionaries

  • Accessing values in a Dictionary
  • Adding new key-value pairs
  • Looping through all key-value pairs
  • Looping through all values in a dictionary

Getting user Input

  • Using input() function
  • Handling numberical input

Working with Modules

  • Storing functions in a module file
  • Importing an entire module
  • Importing individual functions

SCHEDULES
 
CPY3121 - 廣東話 11 Dec enrol
 
CPY3123 - 廣東話 18 Dec enrol
 
CPY4011 - Eng 09 Jan enrol
 
CPY4012 - 廣東話 15 Jan enrol
 
CPY4021 - 廣東話 07 Feb enrol
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Functions

  • Defining a function
  • Arguments and parameters
  • Working with positional arguments
  • Working with keyword arguments
  • Setting arguments' default values
  • Returning result from a function

Using Python's standard modules

  • Math module
  • Datetime module
  • Random module
  • OS module

Working with files

  • Reading data from a txt or csv files
  • Merging and working data from a file
  • Writing to a file

Errors handling

  • Handling error using Exception
  • The try-except blocks
  • The else block
  • Displaying errors messages

Module Two

Object-Oriented Programming

  • Creating and using a class
  • Working with classes and instances
  • Setting a default attribute value and modify attribute values
  • Inheritance
  • Encapsulation
  • Publc Member
  • Private member
  • Protected member

Inheritance and Polymorphism

  • Getter and Setter
  • Overriding methods from the parent class
  • Polymorphism in class methods
  • Polymorphism with functions and objects
  • Method Overloading
  • Multilevel inheritance
  • Multiple inheritance
  • Importing classes

Regular Expressions

  • Creating regex objects
  • Matching regex objects
  • Regular expressions matching
  • Grouping with parentheses
  • Matching multiple groups
  • Matching pattern using the star, the plus, curly brackts
  • Using wildcard, question mark, caret and dollar sign characters
  • The findall() method

Module Three

Web scrapping with Python

  • Introduction to HTML and CSS
  • Installing Requests and Beautiful Soup
  • Making a Get Request
  • Download HTML pages using Requests
  • Downloading images using Requests
  • Inserting Headers and Cookies using Requests
  • Working with forms and post requests
  • Parsing a web page with BeautifulSoup
  • Searching tags by class and ID
  • Searching items using CSS Selectors
  • Looping and extracting information
  • Processing the extracted data
  • Outputting the result to a file