Certifications in Python language

Improve your Python knowledge and advance in your developer career with Python certifications

It has been a long time since the last post, but sometimes life rushes over you. I have been busy building a new product -soon we will also talk about it, wait a little more-, working hard at the office and being a father as many times as I can. And sleeping too few hours...

Is time to certificate our knowledge

Lately, I was thinking that may be useful to have a certification in Python. I searched a bit and I found the Python Institute at https://pythoninstitute.org/. The describes themselves like this:

The Python Institute is an independent non-profit project venture set up, run, and managed by OpenEDG, the Open Education and Development Group, to promote the Python programming language, train a new generation of Python programmers, and support professional careers in programming in Python and related technologies. In line with the strategic goals associated with the enhancement and development of careers in Python programming, OpenEDG Python Institute provides an independent global framework for curriculum development, skills assessment, and Python programming high-stakes examinations.

Sounds good to me 🙂

My intention with this series of ports is to document the process of learning and pass this Python certification (and may be others in the future). Certifications are a very useful way to probe our knowledge, and a good tool for advancing our career as developers.

So, I’ll post the topics we need to study to have the knowledge necessary during the different certification exams, with as many additional resources as I can find to help everyone to be fully prepared to be successful in this feat.

Certification tracks

The Python Institute has several certification tracks, as described in https://pythoninstitute.org/certification-tracks. I have chosen to start from the beginning, the initial course abut generic Python, from beginner to advance.

Is a series of four certifications, with the last certification still in preparation:

So, it’s time to begin with the first certification:

PCEP™ – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

The first step in this travel is the PECP certification, described here: https://pythoninstitute.org/pcep. This certifications probes that:

The PCEP™ certification shows that the individual is familiar with the following concepts: fundamental terms and definitions (e.g. compilation vs. interpretation), Python’s logic and structure (e.g. keywords, instructions, indentation), literals, variables, and numeral systems, operators and data types, I/O operations, control flow mechanisms (conditional blocks and loops), data collections (lists, tuples, dictionaries, strings), functions (decomposition, built-in and user-defined functions, organizing interaction between functions and their environment, generators, recursion), exceptions (exception handling, hierarchies), as well as the essentials of Python programming language syntax, semantics, and the runtime environment.

It’s a good start, isn’t it?. In the next post we will summarize the contents covered by this certification, and talk about each one to be ready to successfully pass the certification exam.

Come aboard and follow me in this amazing journey!