APIs And API Design With Python Training

Name: APIs And API Design With Python Training
Brand: Microtek Learning
Price: $2150
Rating: 3.9 (930 reviews)

Course Description

Microtek Learning's APIs and API Design with Python technical training enables professionals to solve real-life problems and issues. APIs provide developers with connectivity to everything that becomes increasingly important these days. In this course, professionals will find everything from rich datasets in various formats like JSON to expose the configurability of network appliances and software applications. However, this course provides live demonstrations and hands-on labs for class. Further, it is suitable for a professional career to use Python to interact, design, and build APIs.

Prerequisites for this training

Basic familiarity with any programming or scripting language

Recommended

Python Basics

Who should attend this course?

System Administrators, Network Engineers, and Developers

Schedules

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What you will learn

Develop Python scripts to communicate with RESTful (and non-RESTful) APIs
Design RESTful API interfaces
Use Python to open SSH sessions and pass commands
Move files via SFTP
Parse and manipulate popular data structures (JSON, XML, CSV, and YAML)
Manage errors
Interface with the operating system
Create expressions for parsing

This is a lab-intensive hands-on course with engaging instruction, demos, and discussions.

Curriculum

Module 1: Python Review

Lists

Dictionaries

Tuples

Conditionals (if, elif, else)

Loops (for and when)

Functions

Variable Scope - Review

Converting boiler plate code to functional code

Writing Functions (reusable code)

Using pip

Useful 3rd party modules

Publishing a module

Documenting modules

Module 2: OS Interfacing

Operating System interfacing with OS module

OS module - listdir(), getcwd(), mkdir()

Common sys Module Attributes & Methods

Working With the os Module & Files/Directories

Walking File Trees with os.walk()

File, Path and Directory Examples

Working with os.path

os & os.path Module Examples

Environmental Variables

Running Shell Commands

Compressing and archiving (gzip, tar, zip)

Module 3: Web and RESTful APIs

REST

REST APIS and HTTP CRUD

REST and OpenStack

URI analysis and formation

Wireshark capturing

cURL

Etcd keystore

Creating a Python client to interact with API endpoints

API dev keys

SSH and Python

Secure password retrieval

Tokens and APIs

Module 4: Python Protocol Clients

Scripting the browser

Scripting with HTTP

Creating an HTTP Client & Server

Python and SSH

Building an SFTP Client & Server

Python and SFTP limitations

Paramiko for SSH

Netmiko and Major Network Vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Arista)

Module 5: JSON, YAML, XML, CSV and Excel

JSON RFC 7159

JSON Formatting

YAML intro

YAML lists

YAML dictionaries

YAML line spanning

Reading YAML is easy

XML

CSV

Import json

Import yaml

Decoding json and yaml to use

Using python to decode data structures like YAML, XML, CSV, and JSON

Reading from Excel

Writing to Excel

Module 6: Generating and Sending Emails

Overview of email modules

Creating simple emails

Interfacing with your email account

Module 7: Dates and Times

Python and Cron

Import time and time.time()

Suspending with sleep()

Dealing with time

Time formatting

Time tuples

Creating Calendars

Module 8: Python Regular Expression (Regex)

Metacharacter review

Re modules

search() and match()

findall()

Compiling regex search patterns

Creating highly efficient searches

Sorting data sets

Complex sorts

sort() vs sorted()

Sorting with functions

Applying Regex to file searches

Applying Regex to API results

Module 9: Code Review

Best practice

Using pylint

Conventions

Underscore

Double underscore

Monkey Patching

Module 10: Web API Design with Flask

Flask Overview

Decorators

Building APIs with Python and Flask

APIs returning Jinja2 templating

Returning a ‘cookie’

Building Sessions

Redirecting from URIs

Build an API to accept a file upload

Module 11: SQLlite

Overview

Connecting to Python

Read / Write operations

Other useful instructions

Connecting APIs and SQLite

Reading and Writing to Databases with APIs

Module 12: Processes and Threads

Threading

Context change

Deadlock errors

Thread starvation

Racing conditions and racing specifics

Working with Locks

With Microtek Learning, you’ll receive:

Certified Instructor-led training
Industry Best Trainers
Official Training Course Student Handbook
Pre and Post assessments/evaluations
Collaboration with classmates (not available for a self-paced course)
Real-world knowledge activities and scenarios
Exam scheduling support*
Learn and earn program*
Practice Tests
Knowledge acquisition and exam-oriented
Interactive online course.
Support from an approved expert
For Government and Private pricing*

* For more details call: +1-800-961-0337 or Email: info@microteklearning.com

Our Clients

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