IT 229 Python Scripting

This course is an introduction to writing scripts using the Python language and its tools and libraries to solve common information technology, data science, and cybersecurity problems. This course will cover the basics of scripting, syntax, and data representations. It will examine different ways to use scripting to automate and simplify tasks performed in various information technology fields. Students will learn how to write algorithms and regular expressions to extract relevant information from datasets and for more complicated problems they will learn how to reuse industry-standard third party packages. Prerequisite: IT 125 or IT 130. (3)