This course teaches learners how to automate tasks using Python. By the end of the course, students will be able to build automation projects such as a Hacker News Headlines Emailer, TED Talk Downloader, Table Extractor from PDF, Automated Bulk Resume Parser, Image Type Converter, and an Automated News Summarizer. The course covers skills like web scraping, working with different file formats, using Python libraries like requests and BeautifulSoup, text summarization, and creating command-line tools. The teaching method includes tutorials with hands-on coding examples. This course is designed for beginners who want to learn Python automation.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction.
Hacker News Headlines Emailer - Tutorial 1.
Introduction to Web Scraping.
Setting up the Environment.
Project Script.
Website Structure of Hacker News FrontPage.
Sending Email from Python.
Building the Headlines Email Module.
TED Talk Downloader - Tutorial 2.
Installation and Introduction to requests package.
Installation and Introduction to BeautifulSoup.
Building the basic script to download the video.
Generalising the Script to get Arguments.
Table Extractor from PDF - Tutorial 3 .
Basics of PDF Format.
Installing required Python Modules.
Extracting Table from PDF.
Quick Introduction to Jupyter Notebook.
PDF Extraction on Jupyter Notebook.
Pandas and Write Table as CSV Excel.
Automated Bulk Resume Parser - Tutorial 4.
Different Formats of Resumes and marking relevant Information.
Project Architecture and Brief Overview of the required packages and installations.
Basics of Regular Expression in Python.
Basic Overview of Spacy Functions.
Extracting Relevant Information from the Resumes.
Completing the script to make it a one-click CLI.
Image Type Converter - Tutorial 5.
Different type of Image Formats.
What is an Image type convertor.
Introduction to Image Manipulation in Python.
Building an Image type converting Script.
Converting the script into a CLI Tool.
Building an Automated News Summarizer - Tutorial 6.
What is Text Summarization.
Installing Gensim and other Python Modules.
Extracting the required News Source.
Building the News Summarizer.
Scheduling the News Summarizer.
Thank you.
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freeCodeCamp.org
