Introduction

I recently saw my friend copy down emails of 1500+ people who attended a conference to have a chat with them. Since sending cold emails manually to so many people is time consuming, I suggested him to use something more creative and intuitive to reduce his workload. As he shrugged and continued to do what he was doing, I wrote a Python script in 15 minutes to scrape emails of the attendees from the conference website. He was surprised, but said emailing them using the same method would be impossible. Once again, I wrote a Python script in 15 minutes to send emails to all those people, and gave it to him. I hope he got a few replies, at least.

This is how powerful Computer Programming is in this age. Many people do things repeatedly for long hours, unaware of the computer's power in performing the same task in a much shorter time frame. Words like script, scrape or Python might seem new right now, but in a few weeks you will be a pro!

Welcome to this course on Python! You have successfully cleared the first hurdle in being equipped with some extremely practical and handy skills. Lets get cracking.