Python Programming and Practical Data Automation
A tested Python automation pipeline and small programming exercises. Raw data is preserved; malformed records and retries are handled; the learner can modify a function unaided.
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What you will be able to do.
Build understanding, put it into practice and finish with work you can explain.
- Raw data is preserved; malformed records and retries are handled; the learner can modify a function unaided.
Is this for you?
Beginner learners who can demonstrate the entry competencies listed below. Preparation suggestions are optional.
Before you begin
Create a folder, open a supplied file and submit a named artifact
How you will show your progress
Raw data is preserved; malformed records and retries are handled; the learner can modify a function unaided.
From first principles to applied work.
Explain → Demonstration → Guided practice → Review
Planned outline. Lessons, trainer and schedule are confirmed before this course opens.
01240 live minutesSet up Python and understand values
45 min explanation · 45 min demonstration · 105 min practice · 45 min review
Run Python locally and trace values and types
02240 live minutesUse conditions loops functions and modules
45 min explanation · 45 min demonstration · 105 min practice · 45 min review
Write conditions loops functions and small reusable modules
03360 live minutesWork with collections and file formats
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Read validated CSV JSON and text fixtures
04360 live minutesHandle validation exceptions and testing
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Handle errors and test normal boundary and invalid cases
05360 live minutesUse tabular data and reproducible transformations
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Clean tabular data with reproducible transformations
06360 live minutesQuery a database with safe parameters
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Use parameterised database queries with source reconciliation
07240 live minutesCall APIs with error and retry controls
45 min explanation · 45 min demonstration · 105 min practice · 45 min review
Call a mock API with timeouts and bounded retries
08240 live minutesSchedule scripts and document configuration
45 min explanation · 45 min demonstration · 105 min practice · 45 min review
Schedule a local task with safe config and logs
09360 live minutesBuild a bounded data-automation capstone
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Build a new file-to-database automation pipeline
10240 live minutesDemonstrate reproducibility and explain edge cases
45 min explanation · 45 min demonstration · 105 min practice · 45 min review
Rerun from clean inputs and repair an unseen data-quality defect
How you will practise and be assessed.
The planned assessment checks your result, your judgement and your ability to apply what you learned independently.
- 01
Build the promised result
Demonstrate the promised artifact
WHAT YOUR WORK SHOULD SHOWRaw data is preserved; malformed records and retries are handled; the learner can modify a function unaided.
- 02
Test a limit or failure
Handle errors and test normal boundary and invalid cases
WHAT YOUR WORK SHOULD SHOWThe documented failure/uncertainty is visible, and no prohibited action or unsupported success claim occurs.
- 03
Apply it independently
Independently explain and change one assumption in a tested python automation pipeline and small programming exercises.
WHAT YOUR WORK SHOULD SHOWThe learner predicts and verifies the change; AI output is not accepted without understanding.
Where this course stands.
Lab assets and supported tool versions are confirmed before teaching
Explore the source reference- Course ID
- C004
- Content
- Course outline in review
- Trainer
- Instructor to be confirmed
- Enrolment
- Not open · requests welcome
- Publication
- Planned
- Catalogue date
- 2026-10-15
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