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VDCI

Python for Automation

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Overview

Gain hands-on experience with Python to collect data from websites and automate the processing of many pages using loops. This course covers HTML and CSS basics, core Python concepts, practical web scraping activities, data storage and scheduling methods, and real-world case studies showing how scraped data can be used effectively.

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
  • Conditional 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

Taught by

Garfield Stinvil, Colin Jaffe, and Brian McClain

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