Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming (Udemy.com)

A practical programming course for office workers, academics, and administrators who want to improve their productivity.

( 312 Reviews )

Created by: Al Sweigart

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Automate tasks on their computer by writing simple Python programs.
Write programs that can do text pattern recognition with "regular expressions".
Programmatically generate and update Excel spreadsheets.
Parse PDFs and Word documents.
Crawl web sites and pull information from online sources.
Write programs that send out email notifications.
Use Python's debugging tools to quickly figure out bugs in your code.
Programmatically control the mouse and keyboard to click and type for you.

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Course Description

If you're an office worker, student, administrator, or just want to become more productive with your computer, programming will allow you write code that can automate tedious tasks. This course follows the popular (and free!) book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python was written for people who want to get up to speed writing small programs that do practical tasks as soon as possible. You don't need to know sorting algorithms or object-oriented programming, so this course skips all the computer science and concentrates on writing code that gets stuff done.
This course is for complete beginners and covers the popular Python programming language. You'll learn basic concepts as well as:Web scrapingParsing PDFs and Excel spreadsheetsAutomating the keyboard and mouseSending emails and textsAnd several other practical topicsBy the end of this course, you'll be able to write code that not only dramatically increases your productivity, but also be able to list this fun and creative skill on your resume.
Who this course is for:Office workers, students, small/home business workers, and administrators would want to improve their productivity.Aspiring software engineers who want to add skills to their programming toolbelt.Computer users who have heard the "learn to code" message, but want practical reasons to learn programming.Experienced Python software engineers can skip the first half of the course, but may find the later parts that cover various third-party modules helpful.While this course doesn't cover specific devops tools, this course would be useful for QA, devops, and admins who want to learn scripting in Python.

Beginner Level

Time: 9.5h

Instructor Details

Al Sweigart

4.6 Rating
312 Reviews

Al Sweigart is a software developer in San Francisco. He has written four Python programming books, spoken at Python conferences, and has taught both kids and adults how to program. Python is his favorite programming language, and he is the developer of several open source modules for it. He is driven to make programming knowledge available to all, and his books freely available under a Creative Commons license.

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By Steven Vasquez on 12/27/2020

I am halfway through and still going. There were a couple of moments when the instructor's directions were unclear but the good news is that the Q&A board has hundreds of helpful comments that got me through those hiccups. Course seems to be focused on explaining the basics just enough to get you to where you can finally start automating stuff. So far I have only learned basics, which makes sense, but nothing that I have learned so far will help me in my job. I will update this review again once I can start seeing the results of these studies.

By Brian Cash on 12/27/2020

The course was very interesting, with lots of examples. It did progress quite fast on certain elements but generally, it was pretty well paced.

By Victor guerrero on 12/27/2020

Great for getting started with Python, suggested to all my friends whether they're trying to get into coding in general or coming from another language.

By DJ Moynihan on 12/20/2020

Covers a broad range of topics with the bonus of being entertaining along the way!

By Hasnain ali on 12/20/2020

This course enables me to learn python easily.
I learn a lot from this course
Thank you so much Al sir...

By Ray Gaddi on 12/20/2020

As a person who just began to learn how to code, this course introduced Python to me very well and pointed out some useful third party modules as well

By Andre on 12/6/2020

This is my second review after having gone over half of the course. The course is very well structured so far and quite informative. I am definitely going to finish the course by the end of this week, as there are a lot of useful things to be learned for automating regular office work.

By Sebastin Fernndez on 11/27/2020

Un curso muy interesante que cubre una buena diversidad de acciones que se pueden tomar con Python. Creo que es un excelente puntapie para identificar cuestiones automatizables de nuestra vida diaria y meterse de lleno a entender el funcionamiento de python para lograrlo. Quizs estara bueno tener algn link para hacer ejercicios bsicos con el contenido de las lecciones pero en lneas generales, muy conforme.

By Miguel D Vieira da Silva on 11/26/2020

The web scraping and email chapters could have some more content with more examples and more detailed explanation of how things work.

By Samantha Burke on 11/26/2020

Really well explained. Refreshing angle to approach coding from. Could have done with more projects to practice on. Great to find out all the things I can do from IDLE though! Thank you!

By Kristoffer Sjholm on 11/25/2020

Just a coding walk-through. Very easy to produce and available in abundance on Youtube, for free. Not worth the price.

By Sergio Antonio Nez Hobispo on 11/25/2020

Parta con conocimientos previos de python pero me ha parecido un curso enriquecedor para reforzar el lenguaje y adems he aprendido cosas nuevas y sobre todo la importancia del buen uso de libreras me ha parecido esencial ya que te ensea que previamente debes buscar los mejores mtodos que se asemejen al trabajo que quieres realizar y dar uso de lo que ya est hecho por otra gente.