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Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries

Python 3 Programming,

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. For your final project, you’ll read in simulated social media data from a file, compute sentiment scores, and write out .csv files. It covers chapters 10-16 of the textbook “Fundamentals of Python Programming,” which is the accompanying text (optional and free) for this course. The course is well-suited for you if you have already taken the "Python Basics" course and want to gain further fundamental knowledge of the Python language. Together, both courses are geared towards newcomers to Python programming, those who need a refresher on Python basics, or those who may have had some exposure to Python programming but want a more in-depth exposition and vocabulary for describing and reasoning about programs. This is a follow-up to the "Python Basics" course (course 1 of the Python 3 Programming Specialization), and it is the second of five courses in the specialization.

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Rating 4.7 based on 181 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Starts Jun 19 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Michigan via Coursera
Instructors Paul Resnick, Steve Oney, Jaclyn Cohen
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Language English
Subjects Programming
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final project

I'd recommend a little bit of extra practice before the final project as it deals with material that may already have been forgotten.

Final project is a bit confusing at start, because it supposes some independence (for the first time in a course I had to google some information).

Final project will test you cumulative contents learned from the course 1.

It helps to apply concepts and I feel confident to write code in python A Great course, highly recommended , Never understood concepts that easy as i have with this course , High Quality Final project in this course though a bit difficult was satisfying to complete.

Very intuitive and puts to use all the concepts in the final project.

Now that I've completed this course and its final project I can confidently say I'm an advanced beginner and well on my way to being at an intermediate level Python programmer.

Great but should work well to complete final project.

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university of michigan

Awaiting more courses from University of Michigan.They deliver with real fluency and great interaction.Thank you for everything!

University of Michigan has the best online teaching program for Python using the Runestone interactive textbook.

The course material and videos are good, but it is impossible to get help from anyone from the University of Michigan if you have questions.

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check your understanding

Great course with a true hands-on approach Excellent lessons, check your understanding, e-book, practice, and quiz work.

I do feel however hat you need to do a lot of research and studying on your own as the test and check your understanding questions have some code and problems that isn't covered in the reading and videos.

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little bit

Very good interface really started to enjoy developing code in Python,Thank you all instructors... Great Course and content, only the explanantion of the final test is a little bit confusing.

This course is short but very informative Very nice course, it could be a little bit challenging if you have no programming experience, but if you have done the past course and you put your attention you will definitely be able to pass it.

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interactive book

Superb, specially the interactive book is really awesome.

the interactive book is very useful to learn and practice the material.

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peer review

Very good method of peer review Usefullcourse Very well documented.

The peer review is useless and doesn't make any sense due you have to wait until other decided to pick your work what can be ages.

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will definitely

And you will definitely learn the basics and fundamentals that you need for the future.

Once you write project on your code, you , you will definitely feel like you have made a quantum jump.

know how

You must know how to implement the instructions and be a bit clever as well.

Finally know how to handle some datastructures Great course with lecture and good amount of exercises The course is good and the material is good too.

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final assignment

The final assignment is far more complex (as in having multiple stages) but still manageable.

Also the final assignment puts most of the material together.

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first country name

: it asks "sort-5-1: What will the sorted function sort by?and says: "first country name (alphabetically), then temperature (lowest to highest)" but in the task script are "Reykjavik, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Berlin and Caloocan "Since when Reykjavik, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Berlin and Caloocan are countries?!

and among options:A. first country name (reverse alphabetically), then temperature (lowest to highest) C. first country name (reverse alphabetically), then temperature (lowest to highest) The answers A and C are exactly the same.

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helps to understand

Very good course This course helps to understand how to use context manager to prevent you from forget to close files that are opened for write, nicely explains how you can iterate through files directly.

It helps to understand why using a local variable inside a function is a good idea.

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Rating 4.7 based on 181 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Starts Jun 19 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Michigan via Coursera
Instructors Paul Resnick, Steve Oney, Jaclyn Cohen
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming
Tags Computer Science Software Development

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