Automation Fundamentals 2.0
The planned technical bridge: files, terminal, Python, data and APIs, leading to your first report in the Professional Workspace.
Who is this for?
For learners ready to build on the basics with more structured technical practice.
Before you begin
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What the course is designed to teach
This is the full course direction, including planned lessons. Check the outline below for what is available today.
- Navigate a project and run a small Python script with decisions, records and loops.
- Read JSON and YAML, supply environment values and handle secrets carefully.
- Make simple simulated API calls and use errors, logs and tests to check results.
- Understand basic Git history and scheduling, then repair a daily report in the Professional Workspace.
JSON: The Language of Data
Read nested JSON and identify its value types.
Available lesson · Controlled exercises and simulated services. No real customer data or paid API keys required.
Inside the course
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01 · Working Like a Technical Builder2/2 available
Find your way around a project and command interface.
Inside a Technical Project
Find the source, data, configuration and tests in a small automation project.
AvailablePro45–60 minMeet the Terminal
Navigate a supplied project and explain commands, output and path errors.
AvailablePro45–60 min
02 · Scripts & Python for Automation3/3 available
Read, change and repeat useful instructions.
Your First Script
Change and run a Python script that prints a customer message.
AvailablePro45–60 minMake Scripts Decide
Route a Pro customer to a priority message using a checked if/else rule.
AvailablePro50–65 minWork With Lists and Records
Read customer dictionary fields and process each customer in a list.
AvailablePro55–75 min
03 · Data & Configuration1/2 available
Read structured data and separate settings from code.
JSON: The Language of Data
Read nested JSON and identify its value types.
AvailablePro55–75 minConfiguration With YAML
Change a report setting without rewriting the script.
PlannedPro (planned)
04 · Environment & Secrets0/2 available
Supply environment values without exposing credentials.
Variables Outside Your Code
Explain how one script reads different settings in development and production.
PlannedPro (planned)Secrets & Credentials
Keep a credential outside code, logs and shared history.
PlannedPro (planned)
05 · APIs & HTTP0/3 available
Exchange structured data with a controlled service.
How Systems Talk
Trace a script request to an endpoint and explain the response.
PlannedPro (planned)GET, POST and Status Codes
Choose GET or POST and interpret common HTTP results.
PlannedPro (planned)Call an API From a Script
Retrieve customers and send a JSON record through a controlled Python API example.
PlannedPro (planned)
06 · When Things Break0/2 available
Diagnose errors and repair behavior with evidence.
Reading Errors
Locate a failure and compare its input with the expected result.
PlannedPro (planned)Logs & Debugging
Use ordered logs to repair a failed report and verify the rerun.
PlannedPro (planned)
07 · Automation That Runs Without You0/1 available
Specify recurring work with an explicit timezone.
Scheduling Work
Specify a daily 16:00 report with a timezone and check the next run.
PlannedPro (planned)
08 · Trust Your Automation0/1 available
Check behavior across useful test cases.
Tests
Choose useful test cases and distinguish running successfully from behaving correctly.
PlannedPro (planned)
09 · Versioning Your Work0/1 available
Review safe changes and understand local history.
Git Without the Headache
Rehearse saving a safe project change into inspectable history.
PlannedPro (planned)
10 · Enter the Professional Workspace0/2 available
Combine the skills in a guided project and independent report repair.
Your Professional Workspace
Open, edit, save and rerun a project while navigating its files and evidence.
PlannedPro (planned)Your First Technical Automation
Repair and verify a scheduled customer report using files, environment, logs and tests.
PlannedPro (planned)
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