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Christopher Brooks, Paul Resnick, Jaclyn Cohen, and Steve Oney

This specialization teaches the fundamentals of programming in Python 3. We will begin at the beginning, with variables, conditionals, and loops, and get to some intermediate material like keyword parameters, list comprehensions, lambda expressions, and class inheritance.

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This specialization teaches the fundamentals of programming in Python 3. We will begin at the beginning, with variables, conditionals, and loops, and get to some intermediate material like keyword parameters, list comprehensions, lambda expressions, and class inheritance.

You will have lots of opportunities to practice. You will also learn ways to reason about program execution, so that it is no longer mysterious and you are able to debug programs when they don’t work.

By the end of the specialization, you’ll be writing programs that query Internet APIs for data and extract useful information from them. And you’ll be able to learn to use new modules and APIs on your own by reading the documentation. That will give you a great launch toward being an independent Python programmer.

This specialization is a good next step for you if you have completed Python for Everybody but want a more in-depth treatment of Python fundamentals and more practice, so that you can proceed with confidence to specializations like Applied Data Science with Python.

But it is also appropriate as a first set of courses in Python if you are already familiar with some other programming language, or if you are up for the challenge of diving in head-first.

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Five courses

Python Basics

This course introduces the basics of Python 3, including conditional execution and iteration as control structures, and strings and lists as data structures. You'll program an on-screen Turtle to draw pictures. You'll also learn to draw reference diagrams to reason about program executions, building debugging skills.

Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries

This course introduces the dictionary data structure and user-defined functions. You’ll learn about local and global variables, optional and keyword parameter-passing, named functions and lambda expressions. You’ll also learn about Python’s sorted function and how to control the order in which it sorts by passing in another function as an input.

Data Collection and Processing with Python

This course teaches you to fetch and process data from services on the Internet. It covers Python list comprehensions and provides opportunities to practice extracting from and processing deeply nested data. You'll also learn how to use the Python requests module to interact with REST APIs.

Python Classes and Inheritance

This course introduces classes, instances, and inheritance. You will learn how to use classes to represent data in concise and natural ways. You'll also learn how to override built-in methods and how to create "inherited" classes that reuse functionality. Finally, you will be introduced to the good programming habit of writing automated tests for their own code.

Python Project: pillow, tesseract, and opencv

This course will guide you through a hands-on project suitable for a portfolio. You will learn to manipulate images with pillow, apply optical character recognition with tesseract and py-tesseract, and identify faces with opencv. By the end, you will have worked with three Python 3 libraries to create a real-world data-analysis project.

Learning objectives

  • Learn python 3 basics, from the basics to more advanced concepts like lists and functions.
  • Practice and become skilled at solving problems and fixing errors in your code.
  • Gain the ability to write programs that fetch data from internet apis and extract useful information.

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