PCAP – Certified Associate in Python Programming

Duration

3 Days

Description

The PCAP™ – Certified Associate in Python Programming certification (Exam PCAP-31-0x) is a professional, high-stakes credential that measures the candidate’s ability to perform intermediate-level coding tasks in the Python language, including the ability to design, develop, debug, execute, and refactor multi-module Python programs, as well as measures their skills and knowledge related to analyzing and modeling real-life problems in OOP categories with the use of the fundamental notions and techniques available in the object-oriented approach.

Becoming PCAP™ certified ensures that the individual is fully acquainted with all the primary means provided by Python 3 to enable them to start their own studies at an advanced level, and to open a path to the developer’s career.

PCAP™ certification is an interim step to the PCPP1™ certification, a great motivator for self-improvement and self-development, and most importantly – the means to keep one’s programming skills up to date and demonstrate them to others. Becoming PCAP™ certified reflects the candidate’s interest in developing a higher level of proficiency and a more in-depth understanding of Python, as well as their ability to use it for commercial and non-commercial general-purpose programming projects, and create, develop, and improve their own programming portfolio to increase their value in the job market.

Objectives

Strings, String and List Methods, Exceptions

TCharacters, strings and coding standards; Strings vs. lists – similarities and differences; Lists methods; String methods; Python’s way of handling runtime errors; Controlling the flow of errors using try and except; Hierarchy of exceptions.

Object Oriented Programming

Miscellaneous

Generators, iterators and closures; Working with file-system, directory tree and files; Selected Python Standard Library modules (os, datetime, time, and calendar.)