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Programming for Everybody: Python Data Structures (FutureLearn)

Offered by University of Michigan,

Discover data structures and learn how they’re used in the Python programming language with experts at the University of Michigan. Take your next step in learning Python from scratch. On this course, you’ll be introduced to the core data structures of the Python programming language and learn how they are used.

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Designed as the next step up from the Programming for Everybody: Getting Started with Python course, this course moves past the basics of procedural programming.
You’ll learn how to use the built-in data structures in Python, such as lists, dictionaries, and tuples, to perform more complex data analysis.

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

Explain the principles of data structures & how they are used
Develop programs that are able to read and write data from files
Demonstrate understanding of data storage using key/value pairs with Python dictionaries
Perform multi-step tasks like sorting or looping using tuples

Syllabus

Week 1: Welcome to Data Structures
Week 2: Chapter Six: Strings
Week 3: Chapter Seven: Files
Week 4: Chapter Eight: Lists
Week 5: Chapter Nine: Dictionaries
Week 6: Chapter Ten: Tuples

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