Learning Outcomes What you will know

Understand course structure

You understand the goals, structures, and procedures for learning in ITM 352.

Referencing modules: Introduction

Use WADTs

The student will be able to insall, configure, and use development tools.

Referencing modules: Development Tools

Expressions

• Explain good programming practice guidelines
• Describe variables and commonly used data types in Python
• Write code statements that assign values to variables
• Classify types of errors that can occur in Python code
• Develop functions that contain code segments
• Write code statements using Python functions

Referencing modules: Expressions

If-Statements

You understand conditional expressions, how they are used to perform branching with if-statements to control program flow.

Referencing modules: Conditional Statements

File I/O

• Develop Python code to read data from and write data to text files
• Describe commonly used file modes
• Explain how delimited files add structure for organizing and retrieving data
• Develop Python code to read data from and write data to delimited files
• Use the Pandas module to read and analyze data from a delimited file
• Use the pyodbc module to work with database files
• Develop Python code to read data from relational database files using SQL

Referencing modules: File I/O

Numpy and Pandas

• Explain good programming practice guidelines
• Use Pandas Series and DataFrame data structures to work with data
• Clean and prepare data for analysis using the Pandas package
• Recode fields for data analysis using the Pandas package

Referencing modules: Pandas

Working with the Web

• Develop Python code to read information from HTML in webpages
• Develop Python code with the Pandas read_html function to obtain data from webpage tables
• Construct Python code using the BeautifulSoup package to obtain data from more complex webpage tables
• Develop Python code to read structured data using JSON
• Explain how Python applications interact with application programming interfaces (APIs)
• Construct REST API queries using Python code

Referencing modules: Working With HTML