{"id":321674,"date":"2019-09-30T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=321674"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:12:32","slug":"microsoft-launches-free-python-programming-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/321674-microsoft-launches-free-python-programming-course.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches free Python programming course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has introduced a YouTube video series called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLlrxD0HtieHhS8VzuMCfQD4uJ9yne1mE6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Python for Beginners<\/strong><\/a> that aims to teach aspiring programmers the fundamentals of the Python programming language.<\/p>\n<p>The series is presented by Microsoft senior program manager Christopher Harrison and Susan Ibach, who is one of Microsoft\u2019s AI Gaming unit\u2019s business development managers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though we won\u2019t cover everything there is to know about Python in the course, we want to make sure we give you the foundation on programming in Python, starting from common everyday code and scenarios,\u201d Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-part course focuses on Python version 3.x and is intended for users who have some basic understanding of the JavaScript language or have tried out the Scratch visual programming language.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the videos, Microsoft has also posted a collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/c9-python-getting-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>supplementary resources<\/strong><\/a>, including slideshows and samples of coding.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-we-want-you-to-learn-python-programming-language-for-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ZDNet<\/strong><\/a>, the company may benefit from having a larger pool of capable Python developers that could use the language to build applications in Microsoft\u2019s Azure Machine Learning Studio.<\/p>\n<p>The course\u2019s tutorials range from three to ten minutes in length and cover features such as performing error handling, working with loops, and configuring Visual Studio Code.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/321634-postgresconf-south-africa-2019-here-next-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">PostgresConf South Africa 2019 here next week<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has introduced a YouTube video series called Python for Beginners that aims to teach aspiring programmers the fundamentals of the Python programming language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,39420,34041],"class_list":["post-321674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-programming-language","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}