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About the Course

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to manipulate files and processes on your computer’s operating system. You’ll also have learned about regular expressions -- a very powerful tool for processing text files -- and you’ll get practice using the Linux command line on a virtual machine. And, this might feel like a stretch right now, but you’ll also write a program that processes a bunch of errors in an actual log file and then generates a summary file. That’s a super useful skill for IT Specialists to know. We’ll kick off by exploring how to execute Python locally, and organize and use code across different Python files. We'll then learn how to read and write different types of files, and use subprocesses and input streams. We'll also dive into Bash scripting and regular expressions -- both very powerful tools for anyone working with systems. We'll even touch on automatic testing, which allows us to automate how we check if our code is correct. To finish, we’ll put all this together by using the tools that we’ve acquired to process data and generate automatic reports. We’ll also explain how to set up your own developer environment in your machine. This is a key step in being able to write and deploy powerful automation tools....

Top reviews

GK

Oct 6, 2022

Expalined the concepts missed from the previous course a lot well. Only thing I would change is to add more about using commands in windows and other platforms as well. Overall it was a great course!

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Jun 15, 2020

In starting five weeks , all answers were directly provided and week 6 and 7 were very tough. So i suggest to equalize the toughness level in all weeks ,ie, no direct spoon feed nor abrupt toughness

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By jeremy j

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Feb 17, 2022

The course was pretty good, theres some rough edges to be worked out, and some issues with the quiklabs, but overall pretty informative.

By Eric W

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Nov 17, 2020

This course was fun and challenging. The last two assignments were very interesting and allowed me to test out quite a few new skills.

By Thomas H

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Oct 8, 2020

While the information was definitely helpful and interesting, I felt it was lacking enough exercises for the material to really stick.

By Jessica M

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Apr 17, 2022

Great course, it felt more intentional but a bit more complicated. Truly appreciated the effort and the critical thinking we did

By S S

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Mar 25, 2020

the first graded exercises should have been more challenging(maybe do a few easy ones, but let me think for myself a little bit)

By Michael H

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Apr 21, 2021

Not a bad one overall. Had a lot of trouble with the final project in week 7 even after going through the starting exercises.

By Thiago F N

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Feb 16, 2020

Some lessons seems a little too long, maybe it's the material or maybe it's the instructor, but they seem too long at times.

By Calvin H

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Sep 25, 2020

I found it just challenging enough to keep my trying, although I wasn't as interested in the testing section of the course

By Jonas B

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Dec 18, 2021

The course touched on a bunch of useful sysAdmin skills and gave me a good idea of what further skills I need to learn!

By Luis V

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Sep 18, 2020

en las "hojas de apuntes", necesitan incluir ejemplos de codigo, en lugar de solo añadir las urls de la documentacion.

By tanmay u

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May 26, 2020

Material was fine but didn't like Qwiklab's PuTTY. I use VScode for python on my personal PC. So, PuTTY is just ugly.

By Madhur N

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Mar 23, 2021

some of the assignments could have been a bit more challenging, but overall it was a good and well conducted course

By Eva T

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Sep 19, 2020

Verify difficult course but I got through it. Learned alot of good things that I could apply in my day to day job.

By Margarito A D

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Feb 28, 2021

I had problems with the grading algorithhm and also had to edit my code to comply with the old 3.5 python version

By Surya M

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May 7, 2023

Very difficult concepts, but still managed to get on my own legs and solve it! Pretty Challenging I guess

By Krishnaraj S B

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Jan 7, 2023

very hard course but i am learn from this course thankyou google and coursera for providing this course

By Santiago B R

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Jan 18, 2021

What a good topics. Although the nano editor is so unconfortable to work with it to script complex code

By Syed Z A

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Nov 16, 2020

Course was very well design, but instructions for lab was not properly given. But it was fun learning.

By Alvern T

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May 27, 2020

There were a lot of concepts covered and was kind of overwhelming. Still a lot to learn along the way.

By Antonio J D

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Dec 11, 2020

a lot to learn in this course. pretty hard to keep up but if you do it gets you on the right track.

By AARON M S

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May 11, 2020

It felt too rushed and difficult to comprehend in most parts...

but still made it through somehow :)

By ankit d

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Apr 18, 2020

user of variable{1] and variable.groups()[0] in variable=re.search(r'pattern',line) not explained

By Kristjan L

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Sep 10, 2020

Super fun course! The only thing I was dissatisfied with was the subtitles being mistranscribed.

By Tsung I W

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Aug 20, 2020

some of my computer can do some work because I use windows

That is too bad for me to learn :(

By Julian D M V

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Mar 8, 2021

It was good but I think there are some course modules such as Bash that need another course