Python Programming with Red Hat Self-paced Training

Python programming for beginners

Python is a popular programming language used by system administrators, data scientists, and developers to create web applications, custom Red Hat Ansible Automation modules, perform statistical analysis, and train AI/ML models. This course introduces the Python language and teaches fundamental concepts like control flow, loops, data structures, functions, file I/O, regular expressions, parsing JSON, and debugging. This course is based on Python 3 and RHEL 9.0. 

• System administrators and DevOps personnel who want to use Python to automate operating system task
• Developers from other programming languages who want to learn Python for writing applications
• AI/ML, data scientists, and engineers who want to use Python for data analysis and machine learning

• There are no prerequisites for this course.

You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

• Basics of Python syntax, functions and data types
• How to debug Python scripts using the Python debugger (pdb)
• Use Python data structures like dictionaries, sets, tuples and lists to handle compound data
• Learn Object-oriented programming in Python and Exception Handling
• How to read and write files in Python and parse JSON data
• Use powerful regular expressions in Python to manipulate text
• How to effectively structure large Python programs using modules and namespaces
• How to use third-party libraries using the pip CLI tool.

PLEASE NOTE: It may take 2-3 business days for your course access to be activated. You will receive an email from us with all necessary details.