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Three-day advanced Python course (including classes)

Three days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,995

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,695

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£1,350

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

You must already now how to program in Python to attend this course (an ideal preparation would be to attend our two-day Introduction to Python course).

Course schedule

We don't have any dates scheduled for this course. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Advanced Python programming training course contents

If you already know how to program in Python (an ideal preparation would be to attend our two-day Introduction to Python course), you're probably aware that you're still missing some parts of the picture: such as pandas and classes.

This three-day course gives a quick introducton to object-oriented programming in Python, showing how you can design and code classes to make programming quicker, easier and more fun, and also covers some of the extra modules in Python such as Pandas (for dataframes), NumPy (for arrays) and BeautifulSoup (for web scraping).

The contents of this course are as follows:

Working with sets

Sets versus lists
Examples of set use

Dictionaries

Key/value pairs
Retrieving items
Looping over items

Functions

Defining functions
Passing arguments
Optional arguments
Modular programming

Comprehensions

List comprehensions
Generators

Scraping websites

Understanding HTML
The REQUESTS module
Using BeautifulSoup

Working with CSV files

Reading and writing CSV files
Dictionaries using the CSV module

Working with Excel

Using OPENPYXL
Workbooks, worksheets and cells
Python for Excel or VBA?

Working with JSON

The JSON module
Loading and dumping data

Working with databases

The PYODBC module
Connections and cursors

Overview of Pandas

Dataframes and series
Reading/writing dataframes
Filtering, sorting and renaming
Dataframe calculations

Overview of NUMPY if time

Shapes, ranks and data types
Slicing arrays
Array operations

Power BI and Python if time

Getting Python data
Python visuals using dataframes

Introduction to classes

An example class
Designing properties / attributes
Designing methods

Coding classes

Simple classes
Instantiating objects

Attributes

Instance attributes
Setting attributes on the fly
Class attributes

Methods

Instance methods
Different ways to instantiate
Class methods

Read/write properties

Getting and setting values
Private underscored variables
Action propeties

Inheritance if time

Designing for inheritance
Inheriting classes
Overloading
Using "super"

Dunder methods

Doc strings
String represenations of objects

Understanding existing classes

Viewing definitions
Everything is a class

A case study if time

Aim of the program
Choosing the objects
Properties or methods?
Implementing your classes

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
551 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Amazing informative course which has improved my knowledge using SQL and confidence. The trainer was friendly, informative and helped bring using SQL alive, being face to face rather than online. Thank you"

Matt Dowlan (Royal Sun Alliance (RSA Group))

"It was great that the manual was available straightaway when we were in the classroom and as an introductory course, I believe the fundamentals of Power BI were covered. The trainer was patient and ensured all delegates were working on the modules at the same pace. Classroom and refreshments provided were perfect. Lovely touch taking delegates out of the classroom for lunch."

Jill Renwick (Improveasy Ltd)

"This is the second course that I have attended with Wise Owl. I really enjoyed this Excel Advance Course and know that some of the skills I have learnt will be extremely helpful in my job role and in the future. I have now completed Excel intermediate and Excel Advanced. Thank you!"

Katherine Wheeler (NHS South, Central and West CSU)

"I really enjoyed the course. It was simple to follow along and was at the right pace to understand everything being taught. Many thanks for a great two days!"

Lorna King (Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT)

"Really slick course detailing useful SQL and shortcuts. Brilliant trainer; interested in everyone's progress and helped without embarrassing candidates. Proper nerdy environment, I loved it!! I would recommend Wise Owl to anyone who will listen. Chose the course to fill gaps in my knowledge as I've worked with SQL for over 20 years but never had any formal training."

Catherine Reilly (Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

Related Courses

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