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Programming 103: Saving and Structuring Data (FutureLearn)

Offered by Raspberry Pi Foundation, National Centre for Computing Education,

Learn how to save and structure data in external files, and import files back into your Python programs. Supported by Google. Discover how to save data to use it across multiple runs of your program. On this course, you will learn how to save text and binary files, and how to structure data so that programs can interpret it correctly.

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You will explore various common types of structured files, including CSV and JSON, and also find out how to connect to a SQL database to use it in your Python programs.
This course is part of the Start Programming with Python program, which will enable you to in these three short courses you’ll discover how to start programming using Python.

Syllabus

Week 1: Persistent Data
Week 2: Structuring data
Week 3: Interacting with databases

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Demonstrate how to use Python to store and retrieve persistent data
Describe the importance of data persistence and where it is used
Compare different types of structured data
Modify a program to store data in a JSON file
Perform operations on a database using SQL statements

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