Academy / Data & Machine Learning

Path 2 · Course 1 · For beginners

Python for AI

Python from scratch with an AI focus: notebooks, variables, lists and dictionaries, functions, files and JSON, pandas for data, calling AI model APIs safely, and a hands-on project analysing customer reviews with AI.

📘 6 modules⏱ About 4 hours✅ Knowledge check per module🎓 Final assessment & certificate🎯 No prerequisites

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Modules

  1. 1

    Getting started with Python

    Why Python for AI, Google Colab, first code, variables and types, strings and f-strings, and reading errors.

    25 min
  2. 2

    Data structures, logic and functions

    Lists, dictionaries, conditions, loops, list comprehensions and functions.

    30 min
  3. 3

    Files, text and JSON

    Reading and writing files, JSON for AI APIs, try/except, cleaning text with regular expressions, and CSV files.

    30 min
  4. 4

    Working with data in pandas

    DataFrames, inspecting data, selecting and filtering, missing values, new columns, grouping, charts and saving results.

    35 min
  5. 5

    Calling AI model APIs

    How AI APIs work, keeping keys secret, a first API call, a helper function, structured JSON output, and handling errors, limits and cost.

    35 min
  6. 6

    Project: analysing reviews with AI

    An end-to-end project: a review dataset, AI classification, checking the AI's work, summarising for a manager, and good habits for growing projects.

    40 min