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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

SG

Sep 16, 2019

It's amazing learn for beginner .A wonderful learning resource and very simple way explains everything . Excellent lessons ,check your understanding ,e-book ,practice, and quiz work and lot of thing

DA

Sep 5, 2020

The Course was really great. Learnt a lot.The final project was really challenging and took my whole brain (sarcasm), completed though after a great effort.Liked those kind of challenging questions.

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By Dustin L

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Jan 22, 2022

This was a very good way of refreshing more advanced Python fundamentals. I really like the textbook environment.

By Vivekraja

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Nov 18, 2020

Before starting the course i dont have the confidence in programming but now i gained the confidence!! Thank you!!

By Abdelhamid I

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Jan 4, 2020

A Great course, highly recommended , Never understood concepts that easy as i have with this course , High Quality

By Debby A

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Jan 9, 2020

the interactive book is very useful to learn and practice the material. This course is short but very informative

By SHEFFIELD C L

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Nov 21, 2021

Comprehensive videos, lectures, activities and assessment that enables the student to deeply learn the concepts.

By Srushti S

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Jun 10, 2020

Runestone environment developed by UMich faculty helped my learning to great extent! easy to use and comprehend.

By RAMKUMAR R

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Jun 8, 2020

This course was good and really i got better understand . Thank you sir and Thank you for Michigan University .

By Allen F

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Apr 4, 2019

Very good course where I learned lots about dictionaries, tuples, functions and made my first project in Python.

By claudio c

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Dec 23, 2019

Very good course. Lots of practice and exercises. Also the final assignment puts most of the material together.

By Arjun V

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Aug 4, 2020

Great course. Go for it if u want to learn about Named & Anonymous Functions, Files, Dictionaries, Sorting etc

By Shivam S

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Jul 24, 2020

Very Happy with completing this course, specially thanks to Paul Resnick sir for his teaching style and jokes.

By Oleksandr K

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May 23, 2020

great courses: provide very useful knowledge about functions, dictionaries and basic skills for files creation

By Spiro H

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Mar 20, 2020

A truly excellent course! I thouroughly enjoyed it, including the jokes!! Congratulations to the instructors!!

By Federico R

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Oct 8, 2020

Excelente material, se aprenden conceptos básicos fundamentales para programar, me parece un curso muy bueno.

By Maryam M

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Oct 6, 2020

I really loved the course and deeply appreciate it for providing the opportunity to learn everything in depth

By Heiner L

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Dec 29, 2024

With simple and clear explanations, this course is perfect to deepen your knowledge in Python related Topics

By VISHAL P

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Jun 14, 2021

This course very helpful and suitable for beginner level learners. I learn a lot of things from this course.

By David A G A

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May 24, 2020

This is a very nice and practical course. I found the final assignment very challenging but I liked it a lot

By Shahriar H F

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May 19, 2020

Excellent course material and course instructor. Definitely I'll try to finish to finish the specialization.

By Jeff J

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Aug 25, 2021

Thorough coverage of Python basics. The course really helped me achieve a deeper understanding. Thank you!

By Yauheni K

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Aug 31, 2020

I like this course very much! Actually, I am from BY and I feel a great difference in education approaches!

By Gaurav T

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Jun 10, 2021

This specialization is by far one of the best sources for learning a programming language on the internet.

By Aquib J T

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Aug 3, 2020

superb superb superb.........................lots of love from india.....need more classes from steve oney

By yangxin m

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Feb 28, 2019

i like the first part of the final course project. expect you can't donwload the CSV file that you created

By Durgesh S

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Aug 17, 2024

Amazing series ! Such a great learning environment through videos, hands-on tutorials and a mini project.