Python Foundations

Data Analytics & AI Courses

2 sessions/week
This is a FREE course

ReDI Career Track: Data Analytics & AI

Course Overview

Start your journey into Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI with the Python Foundations course! This beginner-friendly course helps you build a strong foundation in Python programming, perfect for analyzing data and solving real-world problems.

Over 14 weeks, you’ll learn essential programming concepts, work with popular data tools like Pandas and NumPy, and explore basic visualizations to bring your data to life. By the end of the course, you’ll have practical experience, completed projects, and the confidence to continue your path in Data Analytics or AI. Join us and take the first step toward an exciting tech career! This is the beginner course of the Data Analytics & AI track.

1. Tools & Techniques: Use libraries and manage code with Git & GitHub.
2. Python Basics: Learn syntax, operators, conditional logic, functions, and error handling.
3. Introduction to Data Analysis: Work with Pandas, NumPy, SQL, and create basic visualizations.
4. Final Project: Apply your knowledge to a real-world data analysis project. You have the chance to present your project to your colleagues in the course.
5. Career Readiness: Build job application skills and prepare for the tech industry.
- You are interested in Data Analytics and programming
- You have some first Python experience with online courses
- you are interested in self-study and independent project work.
- you can understand and speak English
- You can commit at least 15 hours a week
- Sessions: Two sessions a week. It is essential that you attend both sessions. 80% of attendance and homework completion is required for graduation.
- Hybrid: Depending on whether you are based in Hamburg, Berlin, or NRW, different on-site activities occur. In Hamburg, one session a month is on-site. In Berlin and NRW, you can join on-site community events. All other sessions are online via Zoom.
- Teachers: Your teachers are experts in the industry and volunteer to support your learning journey.
- Learning Style: At ReDI, we believe in learning by coding. You are asked to apply the newly learned concepts in weekly homework and in a final project. This requires a lot of independent self-study. The teachers help you explain the concepts only at a high level. You are putting them into practice in your homework and project.
- Active Work: Note this is NOT a passive, lecture-style environment. Each learner is expected to be self-driven and motivated to code and work hands-on each week on the assignments. ReDI to start coding? Then join us!
- Monday: Every Monday from 19:00 to 21:00, you have an online session in which you discuss your homework and where you will be introduced and practice new concepts.
- Wednesday: Every Wednesday from 19:00 to 21:00, you have an online session where the volunteer teachers introduce you to new concepts. They will share the weekly homework with you in this session.
- Thursday - Sunday: You work on your weekly homework. That means you will be coding hands-on by yourself! If you run into problems, you can contact your class on Slack. You upload your homework before the Monday session.
- You will have written a first program with Python, including loops, variables and functions
- You have received an introduction to Data Analytics
- You are prepared to continue with the Data Analytics course
- Career & Soft Skills Workshops & Trainings, Company Visits
- ReDI Mentorship Program (mentors in the IT industry)
- ReDI Talent Pool (job listing platform)
- Further Online Learning resources such as IBM SkillsBuild self-paced eLearning (by IBM & ReDI)

Course Impressions

Testimonials

“The ReDI School has had a tremendously positive impact on my career path. I'm still wondering what to do next, but I know that integrating digital skills definitely opens doors.”

“I am just a newbie to Tech and I see a long way ahead, but I always feel motivated. Thank you and I am glad that ReDI is always by my side throughout this journey.”

“When I say the opportunity I had at ReDI School was life changing, it was because I saw that it was worth coming here, betting my last coins and actually staying in Berlin and bulding my life here. Everything is still in a process. But for the first time, I feel strong enough and useful with the skill I learned this semester. Thank you”

Available in Berlin, NRW, Hamburg
Hybrid Format: Online with on-site events
Level: Beginner Friendly
Monday and Wednesday, 19:00 - 21:00
Spring Semester: 10.03.2025 to 19.06.2025 (14 weeks in total)
Time Invest: 15 hours per week
Teaching language: English