Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
$0.99
If you’re an office worker, student, administrator, or just want to become more productive with your computer, programming will allow you to write code that can automate tedious tasks. This course follows the popular (and free!) book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python was written for people who want to get up to speed writing small programs that do practical tasks as soon as possible. You don’t need to know sorting algorithms or object-oriented programming, so this course skips all the computer science and concentrates on writing code that gets stuff done.
What you’ll learn
- Automate tasks on their computer by writing simple Python programs.
- Write programs that can do text pattern recognition with “regular expressions”.
- Programmatically generate and update Excel spreadsheets.
- Parse PDFs and Word documents.
- Crawl web sites and pull information from online sources.
- Write programs that send out email notifications.
- Use Python’s debugging tools to quickly figure out bugs in your code.
- Programmatically control the mouse and keyboard to click and type for you.
Course content
1616 sections • 51 lectures • Total duration 9 hours 30 minutes
Python Basics
Flow Control
Functions
Handling Errors with try/except
Writing a Complete Program: Guess the Number
Lists
Dictionaries
More About Strings
Running Programs from the Command Line
Regular Expressions
Files
Debugging
Web Scraping
Excel, Word, and PDF Documents
Email
GUI Automation