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About the Course

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to manipulate files and processes on your computer’s operating system. You’ll also have learned about regular expressions -- a very powerful tool for processing text files -- and you’ll get practice using the Linux command line on a virtual machine. And, this might feel like a stretch right now, but you’ll also write a program that processes a bunch of errors in an actual log file and then generates a summary file. That’s a super useful skill for IT Specialists to know. We’ll kick off by exploring how to execute Python locally, and organize and use code across different Python files. We'll then learn how to read and write different types of files, and use subprocesses and input streams. We'll also dive into Bash scripting and regular expressions -- both very powerful tools for anyone working with systems. We'll even touch on automatic testing, which allows us to automate how we check if our code is correct. To finish, we’ll put all this together by using the tools that we’ve acquired to process data and generate automatic reports. We’ll also explain how to set up your own developer environment in your machine. This is a key step in being able to write and deploy powerful automation tools....

Top reviews

GK

Oct 6, 2022

Expalined the concepts missed from the previous course a lot well. Only thing I would change is to add more about using commands in windows and other platforms as well. Overall it was a great course!

MI

Nov 19, 2020

Great course! I had some previous knowledge, but this was perfect to fill in the gaps. Also, unit testing was completely new to me and will be very useful in future projects. Thanks for making this!

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By Salsabila T K P

Mar 2, 2023

difficultttt

By Lê H H

Aug 13, 2024

Bad IDE.

By Weerachai Y

Jul 22, 2020

thanks

By Yasuko E

Apr 18, 2020

tough

By Fede L

Feb 28, 2020

Good

By clinton c

Sep 22, 2021

I found that I spent a lot of time watching videos and not much time doing practical work, there was very little info to copy down other than screenshots. I had to stop after chapter 5 as I felt I wasn't learning much and go and do Dr. Chuck's Python for Everybody course then come back. He was much better at explaining how Python works (especially lists, dictionaries and tuples) and has great examples.

This course's Chapter 7 final Wiki took a long time as it wasn't explained that you shouldn't use the csv.DictWriter tool for one of one of the files despite it being suggested. I ended up going over my Wiki quota while trying to figure out the solution.

By Nancy J

Oct 16, 2020

I learn a lot in this class about how to write regex, convert a Python file to csv, With blocks, loops, dictionaries. The labs done using Qwiklabs were a headache. Not only the wording made a challenge to follow, but the poor explanation made t worse. On top of that, the fact that throughout the whole class you were just told to type some code on Qwiklabs to and then being told to write your code from zero during the last assignment made it a huge challenge. Don't take me wrong, I learned a lot! But if you are going to be hands off during the class, do it little by little not at once.

By Jay J

Nov 12, 2020

While some of the contents are good for students new to the subject. There are tons of inconsistencies. The subtitles have alot of errors, in every video, you have to refer to transcript text in order to get the correct details.

codes from lecture are not available in transcription , this is just unacceptable for a programming class.

So called "cheat notes" are just web links in this module.

the final project, the python interpreter is out of date, hours was wasted troubleshooting capturing groups.

By James H

Oct 23, 2024

Learned more about Python by checking out free resources online than what I got from this course. It moved so quickly on some aspects that should have received more attention and spent too much time on some aspects that were very simple and straight forward.

By Dmytro K

Oct 4, 2023

This part of course were really dificult for me. I think that it could be structurized much better. Some tasks were really dificult considering that there were no examples or quizes with the code. I have a felling that author does not want to make it good

By Dirk v K

Oct 30, 2021

The most frustrating course I have done. The labs used for the graded assignments are horrible. You either have to copy-paste everything, or if you try to figure it out yourself you get no feedback on why you are not getting points.

The videos are fine.

By alihassan m

Mar 29, 2024

I am working on Windows and this course is entirely based on Linux. I activated the wsl system but still it caused a lot of hurdles for me so I can't proceed further with the course. although the course knowledge and the instructor were good.

By Tomás M

Sep 6, 2022

Super extra long course covering so much it's not properly explained. Trying to show everything while poorly explaining many. Also, encouraged 100% of the time to "practise", while absolutely no practise at all is provided.

By Tony M

Jun 23, 2021

You need have other knowledge for example Linux command, Bash code and know some python module how to use... but this course not more detail to tell student how to use it. And the quiz or lab will use it...

By Quenita D

May 19, 2021

Good class but I have a lot of problems to finish my assigments and tests. How I can finish this course if the automatic review does not allowme to pass even though my answer were correct

By Raychel D D

Aug 28, 2022

You really need to already know what they are talking about in order to get through this course. It could definitely be designed better, if professional educators were consulted.

By Fauzan A D

Feb 26, 2023

please have more texts. i don't like watching video for things i can glance about and having more text is better for reviewing programming syntaxes while doing tests

By Zachary B

Aug 7, 2020

This course was super slow paced until the last two chapters. The final project is way too hard compared to the other projects.

By Jonathan W

Jul 15, 2021

Some of the test were just cut-and-paste to fill in the code.

The final test was challenging and good to write actual code.

By Pablo R Á

Oct 26, 2024

The content was nice to learn but the teaching way in labs, quiz and example explanations... wasnt that good as i spected

By Albano A

Nov 21, 2024

Qwicklabs are awful, the exercises require to know things that aren't explained or even mentioned in the course.

By Robert G R

Jan 5, 2023

This course would have benefited from more clearly defined learning objectives.

By cintya l

Feb 26, 2021

I wish the instructor would explain some concepts instead of just reading them.

By Deleted A

Sep 16, 2020

I felt this course jumped around to too many topics and was not focused enough.

By Chi Y M

Mar 29, 2022

concepts could be elaborated more clearly