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Python for Automation Course Online (Self-Paced)

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Overview

Join this advanced Python training course and learn the techniques you need to know in order to create specialized, automated trading algorithms. Build long-term financial independence by learning how Python can handle stock and asset trades without requiring you to constantly oversee your portfolio.

Syllabus

Section 1

Introduction to HTML/CSS (Online)

How a website is served
Anatomy of a web page
HTML tags
IDs
CSS classes

Python Part 1

Integers + Floats
Variables
Strings
Methods + Functions

Section 2

Webscraping Exercise Part 1

Introduction to using packages
Requests packages
Performing a GET request
String manipulation
Debugging a Python script

Python Part 2

Booleans
Conditonal Statements
Lists
Indexing into strings + lists
Looping over lists

Section 3

Webscraping Exercises Part 2

Beautiful Soup package
Honing in on data
Common webscraping pitfalls
Using loops in webscraping

Storage and Scheduling

Text files
CSVs
Scheduling a Python Script

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