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Cisco Networking Academy Skills For All: Python Essentials 1
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Self-taught course

Description

Used by startups and tech giants like Google, Facebook, Netflix, and more, Python offers you endless possibilities for creating small and large-scale software projects. User-friendly with easy-to-read code, Python is a great first programming language to learn and requires no prior programming knowledge. Python skills open you up to careers in almost any industry and are required if you want to continue to more advanced, higher paying software development and engineering roles such as software engineer, systems administrator, and security engineer.

In this course, you will learn in-demand skills such as how to design, develop, and improve computer programs, methods for analyzing problems using programming, programming best practices, and more.

Target audience
  • All current Cambridge University members (departments and colleges)
  • Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available
Prerequisites

No prior knowledge of programming is required.

Objectives

The course is divided into 4 modules:

  • Module 1

Introduction to Python and Computer Programming;

  • Module 2

Python Data Types, Variables, Operators, and Basic I/O Operations;

  • Module 3

Boolean Values, Conditional Execution, Loops, Lists and List Processing, Logical and Bitwise Operations.

  • Module 4

Functions, Tuples, Dictionaries, Exceptions, and Data Processing

Format
  • Online self-taught
How to book

To book on this course select the blue Book a place (provisional) button. Once the request has been received, a Cisco Skills for All 'invite only link' will be sent to you. Click on the link to access the course. If you already have an account created in Cisco Netacad or the Cisco Skills for All Networking Academy websites then simply login to access the course, otherwise you will be prompted to create an account during which you should use your @cam email address.

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