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The material you see here is the heart of an instructor-led Python
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training course used for corporate training and professional
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development. It has been in continual development since 2007 and
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development. It was in continual development from 2007 to 2019 and
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battle tested in real-world classrooms. Usually, it's taught
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in-person over the span of three or four days--requiring approximately
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25-35 hours of intense work. This includes the completion of
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## Course Objectives
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The goal of this course is to cover foundational aspects of Python
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programming with an emphasis on script writing, data manipulation, and
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programming with an emphasis on script writing, basic data manipulation, and
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program organization. By the end of this course, students should be
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able to start writing useful Python programs on their own or be able
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to understand and modify Python code written by their
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circus. However, if you stick around for this circus, you'll still see
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some interesting acts--just nothing involving animals.
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This is not a course on using tools that happen to be written
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in Python. It's about learning the core Python language.
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This is not a course for software engineers on how to write or
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maintain a one-million line Python application. I don't write programs
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like that, nor do most companies who use Python, and neither should
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cover it in the first place. Also, this is a course, not a Python
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### Q: Why isn't awesome `{command}` in awesome `{tool}` covered?
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The focus of this course is on learning the core Python language,
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not learning the names of commands in tools.
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### Q: Is this course being maintained or updated?
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This course represents a "finished product" that was taught and developed
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for more than decade. I have no plans to revise the material at this time, but
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will occasionally fix bugs and add clarification.
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### Q: Do you accept pull requests?
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Bug reports are appreciated and may be filed through the

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