Python Development and Automation Course Content

Core Python Programming

• Introduction to Python & IDEs (VSCode, PyCharm, Jupyter)
• Variables, Data Types, Typecasting
• Operators & Expressions
• Conditional Statements (if, elif, else)
• Loops (for, while, nested loops)
• Functions, Scope & Recursion
• Modules, Packages, and Libraries
• File Handling (Read/Write - .txt, .csv, .json)
• Exception Handling
• Pythonic Code, List Comprehensions

Object-Oriented Programming

• Classes and Objects
• __init__, self, and Constructors
• Inheritance, Encapsulation, Polymorphism
• Dunder Methods, Class vs Instance Variables

Python Standard Libraries & Tools

• os, sys, datetime, collections, math
• argparse and logging
• re for Regular Expressions
• itertools and functools

Automation & Scripting

• Automating File System Tasks
• Automating Web Requests (requests, urllib)
• Automating PDFs and Excel (with PyPDF2, openpyxl)
• Browser Automation using Selenium
• Task Scheduling (with schedule, cron, Task Scheduler)

Databases & ORM

• Working with SQLite & MySQL
• Python DB API (CRUD Operations)
• Introduction to PostgreSQL
• Using SQLAlchemy ORM

API Automation

• REST API Basics
• Consuming APIs with Python (requests)
• Postman & Curl for API Testing
• Building APIs with Flask
• Token-Based Authentication (JWT)

Testing and Debugging

• unittest and pytest
• Mocking & Fixtures
• Debugging Tools (pdb, breakpoints)

Cloud & Deployment

• Introduction to AWS (EC2, S3 Basics)
• Deploying Django App to EC2
• Git and GitHub for Version Control
• CI/CD Basics (GitHub Actions / Jenkins)

Mini Projects

• Web Scraper with BeautifulSoup
• Portfolio Website with Flask
• CRUD API with Express & MongoDB
• Selenium-Based Automation Bot