This course will be a fast-paced introduction to Python, the popular programming language, delivered in a context relevant to professionals (for example, accountants, management executives and legal professionals for whom we have previously conducted this course). Python is at once a beginner-friendly language used in introductory Computer Science courses all over the world, while also being powerful and flexible enough to be used in a variety of professional settings e.g. data science, artificial intelligence, and web development. In this course, participants will look at how Python can be used to consolidate data from reports of varying templates, crawl data from e-commerce sites to evaluate an organisation's pricing strategy, and make documents in the workplace secure from prying eyes.nil