Courses Completed this week: April 15,2021
2 min readMay 6, 2021
Using Python to Interact with the Operating System
This is the second course of the Google IT Automation Using Python.
- This course starts out by giving you a short revision on your Python basics.
- Then we dive into managing files using Python. We learn how to open files, read and append them.
- After getting a good grip on managing files, we are introduced to the world of regular expressions.
- Next we learn about testing done on codes. This is week 5 of the course where we are introduced to all the tests in Python.
- Week 6 is on Bash scripting. Here we learn the basic Linux commands and also talk about bash versus Python.
- Week 7 is the final project where we put everything we have learnt into a real world project. This is carried out on Google Qwiklabs.
- The course is divided into 7 parts, each having a valuable lesson.
- The total duration of the course is 31 hrs.
My Takeaways :
(1) This course has increased my Python skill-set in aspect of accessing and controlling files.
(2) Learnt how Python Code is tested.
(3) I was introduced to the world of bash scripting followed by Python versus bash scripting.
(4) The final project helped me use my skills on a real life project.