Python Programming with Red Hat

Course code

AD141

Duration

4 Days, 40 Acad. Hours

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Course Overview

Objectives

Prerequisites

Course Outline

Course Overview

Overview

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. This course is based on Python 3 and RHEL 9.0.
Following course completion, hands-on lab access will remain available for up to 45 days for any live course that includes a virtual environment.

Technology considerations

Internet access is required.
A cloud-based RHEL workstation will be provided. Optionally, students can install Python on their own workstation and run lab exercises locally, however Red Hat will not troubleshoot local environment issues.

Objectives

Basics of Python syntax, functions and data types
How to debug Python scripts using the Python debugger (pdb)
Use Python data structures like dictionaries, sets, tuples and lists to handle compound data
Learn Object-oriented programming in Python and Exception Handling
How to read and write files in Python and parse JSON data
Use powerful regular expressions in Python to manipulate text
How to effectively structure large Python programs using modules and namespaces
How to use third-party libraries using the pip CLI tool.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for this course

There are no prerequisites for this course.

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

Course Outline

Outline

An Overview of Python 3

Introduction to Python and setting up the developer environment

Basic Python Syntax

Explore the basic syntax and semantics of Python

Language Components

Understand the basic control flow features and operators

Collections

Write programs that manipulate compound data using lists, sets, tuples and dictionaries

Functions

Decompose your programs into composable functions

Modules

Organize your code using Modules for flexibility and reuse

Classes in Python

Explore Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with classes and objects

Exceptions

Handle runtime errors using Exceptions

Input and Output

Implement programs that read and write files

Data Structures

Use advanced data structures like generators and comprehensions to reduce boilerplate code

Regular Expressions

Use powerful regular expressions to manipulate textual data

Parsing JSON

Read and write JSON data

Debugging

Debug Python programs using the Python debugger (pdb)

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Python Programming with Red Hat

Course code:

AD141

Duration:

4 Days, 40 Acad. Hours

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