From 0 to 1: Learn Python Programming - Easy as Pie هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

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What's Covered:

• Introductory Python: Functional language constructs; Python syntax; Lists, dictionaries, functions and function objects; Lambda functions; iterators, exceptions and file-handling
• Database operations: Just as much database knowledge as you need to do data manipulation in Python
• Auto-generating spreadsheets: Kill the drudgery of reporting tasks with xlsxwriter; automated reports that combine database operations with spreadsheet auto-generation
• Text processing and NLP: Python's powerful tools for text processing - nltk and others.
• Website scraping using Beautiful Soup: Scrapers for the New York Times and Washington Post
• Machine Learning : Use sk-learn to apply machine learning techniques like KMeans clustering

• Hundreds of lines of code with hundreds of lines of comments

• Drill #1: Download a zip file from the National Stock Exchange of India; unzip and process to find the 3 most actively traded securities for the day
• Drill #2: Store stock-exchange time-series data for 3 years in a database. On-demand, generate a report with a time-series for a given stock ticker
• Drill #3: Scrape a news article URL and auto-summarize into 3 sentences
• Drill #4: Scrape newspapers and a blog and apply several machine learning techniques - classification and clustering to these

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A Note on the Python versions 2 and 3: The code-alongs in this class all use Python 2.7. Source code (with copious amounts of comments) is attached as a resource with all the code-alongs. The source code has been provided for both Python 2 and Python 3 wherever possible.

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