This course was last updated on 4/2021.
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✓ 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.
• No programming experience is required.
• Downloading and installing Python is covered at the start of the course.
• Basic computer skills: surfing websites, running programs, saving and opening documents, etc.
• Office workers, students, small/home business workers, and administrators would want to improve their productivity.
• Aspiring software engineers who want to add skills to their programming toolbelt.
• Computer users who have heard the “learn to code” message, but want practical reasons to learn programming.
• Experienced Python software engineers can skip the first half of the course, but may find the later parts that cover various third-party modules helpful.
• While this course doesn’t cover specific devops tools, this course would be useful for QA, devops, and admins who want to learn scripting in Python.
The course costs $14.99. And currently there is a 70% discount on the original price of the course, which was $49.99. So you save $35 if you enroll the course now.
YES, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.
Al Sweigart has created 2 courses that got 105,261 reviews which are generally positive. Al Sweigart has taught 1,084,236 students and received a 4.7 average review out of 105,261 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Al Sweigart is an instructor that you can trust.
Software developer, tech book author
Al Sweigart is a software developer and author. He has written eight programming books, spoken at Python conferences, and has taught both kids and adults how to program. Python is his favorite programming language, and he is the developer of several open source modules for it. He is driven to make programming knowledge available to all, and his books freely available under a Creative Commons license.
