Python for Everybody Specialization

This course will introduce the core data structures of the Python programming language. We will move past the basics of procedural programming and explore how we can use the Python built-in data structures such as lists, dictionaries, and tuples to perform increasingly complex data analysis. This course will cover Chapters 6-10 of the textbook “Python for Everybody”. This course covers Python 3.

100% online course

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Approx. 8 hours to complete

Suggested: 2-4 hours/week

English

Subtitles: English, Chinese (Simplified)

What you will learn

Accomplish multi-step tasks like sorting or looping using tuples

Create programs that are able to read and write data from files

Explain the principles of data structures & how they are used

Store data as key/value pairs using Python dictionaires

Skills you will gain

Python ProgrammingData StructureProblem SolvingData Analysis

100% online course

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Approx. 8 hours to complete

Suggested: 2-4 hours/week

English

Subtitles: English, Chinese (Simplified)

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

1

Section

3 hours to complete

Chapter Six: Strings

In this class, we pick up where we left off in the previous class, starting in Chapter 6 of the textbook and covering Strings and moving into data structures. The second week of this class is dedicated to getting Python installed if you want to actually run the applications on your desktop or laptop. If you choose not to install Python, you can just skip to the third week and get a head start....

7 videos (Total 57 min), 6 readings, 2 quizzes

7 videos

Video Welcome - Dr. Chuck1m

6.1 - Strings15m

6.2 - Manipulating Strings17m

Worked Exercise: 6.58m

Bonus: Office Hours New York City2m

Bonus: Monash Museum of Computing History7m

Fun: The Textbook Authors Meet @PyCon3m

6 readings

Reading: Welcome to Python Data Structures10m

Textbook10m

Welcome to Python 310m

Submitting Assignments10m

Notice for Auditing Learners: Assignment Submission10m

Audio Versions of All Lectures10m

1 practice exercises

Chapter 6 Quiz20m

2

Section

4 hours to complete

Unit: Installing and Using Python

In this module you will set things up so you can write Python programs. We do not require installation of Python for this class. You can write and test Python programs in the browser using the "Python Code Playground" in this lesson. Please read the "Using Python in this Class" material for details....

5 videos (Total 23 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

5 videos

Demonstration: Using the Python Playground3m

Windows 10: Installing Python and Writing A Program8m

Windows: Taking Screen Shots2m

Macintosh: Using Python and Writing A Program4m

Macintosh: Taking Screen Shots4m

2 readings

Important Reading: Using Python in this Class10m

Notes on Choice of Text Editor10m

3

Section

3 hours to complete

Chapter Seven: Files

Up to now, we have been working with data that is read from the user or data in constants. But real programs process much larger amounts of data by reading and writing files on the secondary storage on your computer. In this chapter we start to write our first programs that read, scan, and process real data. ...

5 videos (Total 46 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes

5 videos

7.1 - Files8m

7.2 - Processing Files11m

Demonstration: Worked Exercise 7.19m

Bonus: Office Hours Barcelona1m

Bonus: Gordon Bell - Building Blocks of Computing15m

1 readings

Where is the 7.2 worked exercise?10m

1 practice exercises

Chapter 7 Quiz20m

4

Section

3 hours to complete

Chapter Eight: Lists

As we want to solve more complex problems in Python, we need more powerful variables. Up to now we have been using simple variables to store numbers or strings where we have a single value in a variable. Starting with lists we will store many values in a single variable using an indexing scheme to store, organize, and retrieve different values from within a single variable. We call these multi-valued variables "collections" or "data structures"....

7 videos (Total 48 min), 3 quizzes

7 videos

8.1 - Lists10m

8.2 - Manipulating Lists9m

8.3 - Lists and Strings7m

Fun: Python Lists in Paris0m

Worked Exercise: Lists11m

Bonus: Office Hours - Chicago0m

Bonus: Rasmus Lerdorf - Inventing the PHP Language7m

1 practice exercises

Chapter 8 Quiz20m

5

Section

3 hours to complete

Chapter Nine: Dictionaries

The Python dictionary is one of its most powerful data structures. Instead of representing values in a linear list, dictionaries store data as key / value pairs. Using key / value pairs gives us a simple in-memory "database" in a single Python variable....

7 videos (Total 77 min), 2 quizzes

7 videos

9.1 - Dictionaries9m

9.2 - Counting with Dictionaries11m

9.3 - Dictionaries and Files13m

Worked Exercise: Dictionaries24m

Bonus: Office Hours - Amsterdam3m

Bonus: Brendan Eich - Inventing Javascript11m

Fun: Dr. Chuck Goes Motocross Racing2m

1 practice exercises

Chapter 9 Quiz20m

6

Section

2 hours to complete

Chapter Ten: Tuples

Tuples are our third and final basic Python data structure. Tuples are a simple version of lists. We often use tuples in conjunction with dictionaries to accomplish multi-step tasks like sorting or looping through all of the data in a dictionary....

6 videos (Total 49 min), 2 quizzes

6 videos

10 - Tuples17m

Worked Exercise: Tuples and Sorting10m

Bonus: Office Hours - Puebla, Mexico1m

Bonus: John Resig - Inventing JQuery10m

Douglas Crockford: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)7m

Fun: The Greatest Taco in the World2m

1 practice exercises

Chapter 10 Quiz20m

7

Section

17 minutes to complete

Graduation

To celebrate your making it to the halfway point in our Python for Everybody Specialization, we welcome you to attend our online graduation ceremony. It is not very long, and it features a Commencement speaker and very short commencement speech....

1 video (Total 7 min), 1 reading

1 videos

Graduation Ceremony7m

1 readings

Please Rate this Course on Class-Central10m

Instructor

Charles Severance

Associate Professor

About University of Michigan

The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future....

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Python for Everybody Specialization