Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate

• Week 1: Course Introduction
• Specialization Introduction
• Welcome To Course 1
• The Beginning of Your Programming Journey
• What is programming?
• What is automation
• Getting Computers to Work for You
• Practice Quiz: Introduction to Programming
• What is Python ?
• A Note on Syntax and Code Blocks
• Why is Python relevant to IT?
• More About Python
• Other Languages
• Other Languages
• Practice Quiz: Introduction to Python
• Hello, World!
• Getting Information from the User
• Python Can Be Your Calculator
• First Programming Concepts Cheat Sheet
• First Steps Wrap Up
• Meet Marga, the Curriculum Developer
• Module 1 Graded Assessment
• Week 2 : Basic Python Syntax introduction
• All About Data Types
• Data Types Recap
• Variables A2Z
• Expressions, Numbers, and Type Conversions
• Implicit vs Explicit Conversion
• Practice Quiz: Expressions and Variables
• Defining Functions
• Defining Functions Recap
• Returning Values
• Returning Values Using Functions
• The Principles of Code Reuse
• Code Style
• Practice Quiz: Functions
• Comparing Things
• Comparison Operators
• Branching with if Statements
• if Statements Recap
• else Statements
• else Statements and the Modulo Operator
• elif Statements
• More Complex Branching with elif Statements
• Conditionals Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Conditionals
• Basic Syntax Wrap Up
• In Marga's Words Why I Like Python
• Module 2 Graded Assessment
• Week 3 : Introduction to Loops
• What is a while loop
• Anatomy of a While Loop
• More while Loop Examples
• Why Initializing Variables Matters
• Common Pitfalls With Variable Initialization
• Infinite Loops and How to Break Them
• Infinite loops and Code Blocks
• Practice Quiz: While Loops
• What is a for loop
• For Loops Recap
• More for Loop Examples
• A Closer Look at the Range() Function
• Nested for Loops
• Common Errors in for Loops
• Loops Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: For Loops
• What is recursion (Optional)
• Recursion in Action in the IT Context
• Additional Recursion Sources
• Practice Quiz: Recursion
• Loops Wrap Up
• Module 3 Graded Assessment
• Week 4 : Basic Structures Introduction
• string
• The Parts of a String
• String Indexing and Slicing
• Creating New Strings
• Basic String Methods
• More String Methods
• Advanced String Methods
• Formatting Strings
• String Formatting
• String Reference Cheat Sheet
• Formatting Strings Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Strings
• What is a list
• Lists Defined
• Modifying the Contents of a List
• Modifying Lists
• Lists and Tuples
• Tuples
• Iterating over Lists and Tuples
• Iterating Over Lists Using Enumerate
• List Comprehensions
• List Comprehensions
• Lists and Tuples Operations Cheat Sheet
• What is a dictionary
• Dictionaries Defined
• Iterating over the Contents of a Dictionary
• Iterating Over Dictionaries
• Dictionaries vs. Lists
• Dictionary Methods Cheat Sheet
• Basic Structures Wrap Up
• In Marga's Words My Most Challenging Script
• Week 5: Object Oriented Programming
• What is Object-oriented programming (Optional)
• Object-Oriented Programming Defined
• Classes and Objects in Python (Optional)
• Classes and Objects in Detail
• Defining New Classes (Optional)
• Defining Classes (Optional)
• Practice Quiz: Object-oriented Programming (Optional)
• Instance Methods (Optional)
• What Is a Method?
• Constructors and Other Special Methods (Optional)
• Special Methods
• Documenting Functions, Classes, and Methods (Optional)
• Documenting with Docstrings
• Classes and Methods Cheat Sheet (Optional)
• About Jupyter Notebooks (Optional)
• Help with Jupyter Notebooks (Optional)
• Inheritance (Optional)
• Object Inheritance
• Composition (Optional)