Python Programming with Red Hat (AD141)

Python is a popular programming language used by system administrators, data scientists, and developers to create web applications, custom Red Hat Ansible Automation modules, perform statistical analysis, and train AI/ML models. This course introduces the Python language and teaches fundamental concepts like control flow, loops, data structures, functions, file I/O, regular expressions, parsing JSON, and debugging. This course is based on Python 3 and RHEL 9.0.

Course content summary

• Basics of Python syntax, functions and data types
• How to debug Python scripts using the Python debugger (pdb)
• Use Python data structures like dictionaries, sets, tuples and lists to handle compound data
• Learn Object-oriented programming in Python and Exception Handling
• How to read and write files in Python and parse JSON data
• Use powerful regular expressions in Python to manipulate text
• How to effectively structure large Python programs using modules and namespaces
• How to use third-party libraries using the pip CLI tool.

Technology considerations

• Internet access is required.
• A cloud based RHEL workstation will be provided. Optionally, students can install Python on their own workstation and run lab exercises locally, however Red Hat will not troubleshoot local environment issues.

• System administrators and DevOps personnel who want to use Python to automate operating system tasks
• Developers from other programming languages who want to learn Python for writing applications
• AI/ML, data scientists, and engineers who want to use Python for data analysis and machine learning