Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: B

This is a very practical programming for total beginners or those who wants to start with Python and see where it fits your daily needs. And it does!

If you've ever spent hours renaming files, updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, or entering data, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?

In these two introductory while powerful workshops - March 16th and 23rd, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand-no prior programming experience required. Once started at this facilitated workshop you will be able to finish this amazing course at your own pace, and become a high performer in all these essential real life routine. You will learn the basics of programming, while creating Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation that:

• Search the Web and download online content (Web Scraping)
• Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size
• Working with PDF and Word Documents

Free yourself to spend your time where it counts. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

Our local Python developers Michael and Lev will mentor this workshop