AD141 – Python Programming with Red Hat
Python programming for beginners.
Course description
Python programming for beginners.
Python is a popular programming language used by system administrators, data scientists, and developers to create web applications, custom Red Hat Ansible Automation modules, perform statistical analysis, and train AI/ML models. This course introduces the Python language and teaches fundamental concepts like control flow, loops, data structures, functions, file I/O, regular expressions, parsing JSON, and debugging.
Prerequisites
Audience
- System Administrators and DevOps personnel who want to use Python to automate operating system tasks
- Developers from other programming languages who want to learn Python for writing applications
- AI/ML , Data Scientists , and Engineers who want to use Python for data analysis and machine learning
Outline
Introduction to Python and setting up the developer environment
Explore the basic syntax and semantics of Python
Understand the basic control flow features and operators
Write programs that manipulate compound data using lists, sets, tuples and dictionaries
Decompose your programs into composable functions
Organize your code using Modules for flexibility and reuse
Explore Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with classes and objects
Handle runtime errors using Exceptions
Implement programs that read and write files
Use advanced data structures like generators and comprehensions to reduce boilerplate code
Use powerful regular expressions to manipulate textual data
Read and write JSON data
Debug Python programs using the Python debugger (pdb)
