Description

PCEP certification is a professional Entry-Level Python Programmer Exam to test a person’s ability to understand basic coding.

1: Basic Concepts Of PCEP

• Basic concepts
• Interpreter, compiler, lexis, semantics, syntax, Keywords, etc.
• Literal – Integer, Boolean, Floats, scientific notation, string
• comment
• print()
• input()
• Other numeral systems – binary, decimal, octal, and hexadecimal
• Arithmetic(numeric) operators -> +, -, *, /, //, %, **
• String Operators: +, *
• assignments and shortcut operators

2: Data Types, Evaluations, and Basic I/O Operations

• operators: unary and binary, priorities and binding
• bitwise operators: ~ & ^ | << >>
• Boolean operators: or, and, not
• Boolean expressions
• relational operators ( == != > >= < <= ), building complex Boolean expressions
• accuracy of floating-point numbers
• basic i/o (input and output) operations using – input(), print(), int(), float(), str(), len() functions
• format print() output with end= and sep= arguments
• type casting
• basic calculations
• simple strings: constructing(create), assigning, indexing, immutability.

 3: Control Flow – loops and conditional blocks

• conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif, if-elif-else
• multiple conditional statements – multiple if statement
• the pass instruction
• Loops: while, for, range(), in
• Iteration – iterating through sequences
• loops continued: while-else, for-else
• nesting loops and conditional statements
• controlling loop execution: break, continue

4: Data Collections – Lists, Tuples, and Dictionaries

• simple lists: constructing vectors, indexing, and slicing, the len() function
• lists in detail: indexing, slicing, basic methods (append(), insert(), index()) and functions (len(), sorted(), etc.), del instruction, iterating lists with the for loop, initializing, in and not in operators, list comprehension, the difference between copying and cloning
• lists in lists: matrices and cubes
• tuples: indexing, slicing, building, immutability
• tuples vs. lists: similarities and differences, lists inside tuples and tuples inside lists
• dictionaries: building, indexing, adding and removing keys, iterating through dictionaries as well as their keys and values, checking key existence, keys(), items(), and values() methods
• strings in detail: escaping using the \ character, quotes, and apostrophes inside strings, multi-line strings, basic string functions.

5: Functions

• define and call(invoking) your own functions(user-defined functions) and generators
• return and yield keywords, returning results,
• the None keyword,
• recursion
• parameters vs. arguments,
• positional keyword and mixed argument passing,
• default parameter values
• converting generator objects into lists using the list() function
• name scopes, name hiding (shadowing), the global keyword.

PCEP certification is a professional Entry-Level Python Programmer Exam to test a person’s ability to understand basic coding related to Fundamentals of Python Programming. The candidate will gain all the necessary knowledge of Python Programming, its syntax, semantics, and basic concepts like the below –

• Concepts like – literals, print(), input(), numbers, strings, etc.
• knowledge of operators – unary, binary, bitwise, boolean, relational operators, simple strings, data type, evaluation, I-O, etc.
• Control Flow – Loops, If, While, for, break, continue, pass
• Data collections – Lists, tuples, dictionaries, strings
• Functions – Arguments, Parameters, recursion, scope, global, positional arguments, Keyword arguments, None, yield, default parameter, etc.

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Locus Academy has more than a decade experience in delivering the training/staffing on PCEP for corporates across the globe. The participants for the training/staffing on PCEP  are extremely satisfied and are able to implement the learnings in their on going projects.