Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming

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

In this course, you will learn how to:

• 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.

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. You’ll learn basic concepts as well as web scraping, parsing PDFs and excel spreadsheets, automating the keyboard and mouse, sending emails and texts.