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Good course. Very fast progress without any prior Python knowledge.
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Very nice course, got many useful suggestions.
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Mike is an outstanding teacher ... I will look for his classes in the future.
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The Python Summer Course was a very good opportunity to know almost all about Python. ... Highly recommended!!
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We had a wide range of Python experience in our group and each person gained something valuable to take away....
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I can absolutely recommend this course to everybody who wants become productive with Python very quickly. ...
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The standard Python for programmers and the customized "Python for Experts" course where a great success. ...
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[The trainer] knows well what scientists need, so his hints are very practical and valuable. The hands-on course [..] covers a wide range of examples and will be very helpful in my daily work. ...
Dorota Jarecka, University of Warsaw about the course "Python for Scientists and Engineers" more ...

The course "Python for Scientists and Engineers" is a very useful introduction to Python programming for scientific applications ...
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Very good introduction to the programming language.
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Course: Python for Programmers

Intended Audience

This course is design for participants with (some) programming experience. You once wrote programs in Basic, Pascal, or FORTRAN? Even if this happen some time in the past this course is for you. A basic understanding of programming is required. Terms such as variable, data type or loop should be familiar.

Alternatively: If you already took the course Python for Non-Programmers this course will be the logical next step.

Course Content

The introduction is based on a complex example that contains all important parts of a Python program. After this complex example is introduced as a whole, all parts will be explained in detail. There are exercises for each of its parts. Besides writing code, reading code written by others (in this case by the trainer) will be practiced. This is useful because foreign code reading is typically a major part of programming. You might to be forced in programming practice to continue development of existing programs or to use other libraries, which might require some understanding or even modification of there code.

The main parts of the course are:

Python in comparison with other languages
Setup of a development environment
Complex Example
Modules
Objects
Names
Data types
Flow of control
Name spaces
Functions
Classes
Sequences
Dictionaries
Text processing
Input / Output
System functions

All topics are supported by extensive exercises and are applied to the complex example.

Course Duration

3 days

Exercises

The participants can follow all steps directly on their computers. There are exercises at the end of each unit providing ample opportunity to apply the freshly learned knowledge.

Course Material

Every participant receives comprehensive printed materials that cover the whole course content as wells a CD with all source codes and used software.

Costs

See prices.

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