Making fun with Python

OpenHub and Newburgh Free Library are inviting you for two introductory classes on Python, 10/5/2021 and another one during Spring 2021

1. Making fun with Python
2. Automate the boring stuff with Python
   Two introductory workshops, 1 hour each

This is practical programming for total beginners!
Did you know that you can draw with ASCII code? Make your own widgets and games with Py-games? Come to learn cool things

In these two introductory while powerful workshops, you'll learn how to use Python to have fun writing programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand-no prior programming experience required.

While first workshop will be focused on art and games, the other one is going is going to automate your boring stuff, efficiency oriented.

Second workshop will be based on the book we highly recommend.
Once started at this facilitated workshop you will be able to finish this amazing course at your own pace. You will learn the basics of programming, while creating Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation that:

• Search for text in a file or across multiple files
• Create, update, move, and rename files and folders
• Search the Web and download online content
• Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size
• Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs
• Send reminder emails and text notifications
• Fill out online forms
• and much more
  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.