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Programming in Python - Meta¶

• Week 1: Getting started with Python
• Video: Introduction to the Course
• Video: How is Python used in the real world?
• Discussion Prompt: What do you hope to learn?
• Reading: Course syllabus
• Reading: How to be successful in this course
• Video: Introduction to Programming
• Video: Why Python?
• Reading: Visual Studio Code
• Reading: Installing Python paths (Optional for Windows Users)
• Reading: Installing Python paths (Optional for Mac users)
• Reading: Required dependencies
• Video: Environment check for Windows
• Video: Environment check for Mac
• Video: Running code - Command line VS IDE
• Video: Python syntax, spaces matter
• Reading: Python syntax cheat sheet
• Reading: Commenting code
• Video: Variables
• Video: Basic data types
• Video: Strings
• Reading: Basic Data type and Function Cheatsheet
• Video: Type casting
• Video: User input, console output
• Reading: Type casting, a deeper look
• Practice Quiz: Knowledge check - Welcome to Python Programming
• Reading: Additional resources
• Video: Math and logical operators
• Video: Control flow: If / else, else if
• Reading: Conditional statements
• Video: Switch statement
• Video: Looping constructs
• Reading: Looping Constructs: Practical Examples
• Reading: Practicing control flow and loops
• Video: Nested loops and the effect on algorithmic complexity
• Reading: Exercise: Use control flow and loops to solve a problem
• Reading: Use control flow and loops to solve a problem - solution
• Practice Quiz: Self-review: Use control flow and loops to solve a problem
• Video: Module summary: Getting started with Python
• Reading: Additional resources
• Week 2: Basic Programming with Python
• Video: Functions
• Video: Variable scope
• Reading: Function and variable scope
• Reading: What are data structures?
• Video: Lists
• Video: Tuples
• Video: Sets
• Video: Dictionaries
• Video: kwargs
• Practice Quiz: Functions, loops and data structures
• Reading: Choosing and using data structures
• Reading: Visual Studio Code on Coursera
• Practice Quiz: Knowledge check: Functions and Data structures
• Reading: Additional resources
• Video: What are exceptions
• Video: Exception handling
• Reading: Exercise: Exceptions in Python
• Reading: Exceptions in Python - solution
• Practice Quiz: Exceptions in Python
• Video: File handling in Python
• Video: Creating Files
• Video: Reading Files
• Reading: Storing file contents in data structures
• Practice Quiz: Read in data, store, manipulate and output new data to a file
• Video: Module summary: Basic Programming with Python
• Reading: Additional resources
• Week 3: Programming paradigms
• Video: What is procedural programming?
• Video: Algorithms
• Reading: Writing Algorithms
• Reading: Exercise: Make a cup of coffee
• Reading: Make a cup of coffee - solution
• Practice Quiz: Self-review: Make a cup of coffee
• Video: Algorithmic complexity
• Reading: Intro to Big-O notation
• Practice Quiz: Knowledge check: Procedural Programming
• Reading: Additional resources
• Video: What is functional programming?
• Video: Pure functions
• Video: Recursion
• Reading: Recursion example: Tower of Hanoi
• Video: Reversing a string on Python
• Video: Map & filter
• Reading: Comprehensions
• Practice Quiz: Mapping key values to dictionary data structures
• Practice Quiz: Knowledge check: Functional Programming
• Reading: Additional resources
• Video: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
• Reading: OOP Principles
• Video: Python classes and instances
• Reading: Exercise: Define a Class
• Reading: Define a Class - solution
• Practice Quiz: Self-review: Define a Class
• Video: Instantiate a custom Object
• Reading: Exercise: Instantiate a custom Object
• Reading: Instantiate a custom Object - solution
• Practice Quiz: Self-review: Instantiate a custom Object
• Video: Instance methods
• Video: Parent classes vs. child classes
• Reading: Inheritance and Multiple Inheritance
• Reading: Exercise: Classes and object exploration
• Video: Abstract classes and methods
• Practice Quiz: Abstract classes and methods
• Video: Method Resolution Order
• Reading: Working with Methods: Examples
• Reading: Exercise: Working with Methods
• Reading: Working with Methods - solution
• Practice Quiz: Self-review: Working with Methods
• Video: Module summary: Programming paradigms
• Reading: Additional resources
• Week 4: Modules, packages, libraries and tools
• Video: What is a module in Python?
• Video: Accessing modules
• Video: The import statement
• Video: Writing import statements
• Video: Namespacing and scoping
• Video: reload() function
• Reading: Module Use-cases
• Practice Quiz: Knowledge check: Modules
• Reading: Additional resources
• Video: Popular packages: NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, etc
• Reading: Popular Packages: Examples
• Video: Data analysis packages
• Video: Machine learning, deep learning and AI: PyTorch, TensorFlow
• Reading: Big Data and Analysis with Python
• Discussion Prompt: What do you consider to be the difference between machine learning and AI?
• Video: Python web frameworks
• Practice Quiz: Knowledge check: Popular Packages, Libraries and Frameworks
• Reading: Additional Resources
• Video: What is testing?
• Video: Types of testing
• Practice Quiz: Testing quiz
• Video: Test automation packages
• Video: Writing tests with PyTest
• Reading: PyTest cheat sheet
• Video: Test-driven development (TDD)
• Video: Applying TDD
• Video: Module summary: Modules, packages, libraries and tools
• Reading: Additional resources
• Week 5: End-of-Course Graded Assessment
• Video: Course Recap: Programming in Python
• Reading: About the End-of-Course Graded Assessment
• Discussion Prompt: Discuss challenges that you had with your fellow learners
• Video: Congratulations, you have completed Programming in Python
• Discussion Prompt: What did you find most challenging about learning to program in Python?
• Reading: Next steps after Programming in Python

Crash Course on Python - Google¶

• Week 1: Hello Python!
• Video: Specialization Introduction
• Video: Course Introduction
• Ungraded Plugin: Take a Minute to Set Yourself up for Success
• Reading: Welcome to the Course!
• Reading: Program Surveys
• Ungraded Plugin: Automation with Python Participant Entry Survey
• Discussion Prompt: Meet & Greet
• Video: The Beginning of Your Programming Journey
• Video: What is programming?
• Video: What is automation?
• Video: Getting Computers to Work for You
• Discussion Prompt: Your Hopes for Automation
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Introduction to Programming
• Video: What is Python?
• Reading: Python Resources
• Reading: A Note on Syntax and Code Blocks
• Video: Why is Python relevant to IT?
• Video: Other Languages
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Introduction to Python
• Video: Hello, World!
• Video: Getting Information from the User
• Video: Python Can Be Your Calculator
• Reading: First Programming Concepts Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Hello World
• Video: First Steps Wrap Up
• Video: Meet Marga, the Curriculum Developer
• Discussion Prompt: Your First Programming Code
• Week 2: Basic Python Syntax
• Video: Basic Python Syntax introduction
• Video: Data Types
• Reading: Data Types Recap
• Video: Variables
• Video: Expressions, Numbers, and Type Conversions
• Reading: Implicit vs Explicit Conversion
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Expressions and Variables
• Video: Defining Functions
• Reading: Defining Functions Recap
• Video: Returning Values
• Reading: Returning Values Using Functions
• Video: The Principles of Code Reuse
• Video: Code Style
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Functions
• Video: Comparing Things
• Reading: Comparison Operators
• Video: Branching with if Statements
• Reading: if Statements Recap
• Video: else Statements
• Reading: else Statements and the Modulo Operator
• Video: elif Statements
• Reading: More Complex Branching with elif Statements
• Reading: Conditionals Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Conditionals
• Video: Basic Syntax Wrap Up
• Video: In Marga's Words: Why I Like Python
• Discussion Prompt: Basic Python Syntax Review
• Week 3: Loops
• Video: Introduction to Loops
• Video: What is a while loop?
• Reading: Anatomy of a While Loop
• Video: More while Loop Examples
• Video: Why Initializing Variables Matters
• Reading: Common Pitfalls With Variable Initialization
• Video: Infinite Loops and How to Break Them
• Reading: Infinite loops and Code Blocks
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: While Loops
• Video: What is a for loop?
• Reading: For Loops Recap
• Video: More for Loop Examples
• Reading: A Closer Look at the Range() Function
• Video: Nested for Loops
• Video: Common Errors in for Loops
• Reading: Loops Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: For Loops
• Video: What is recursion? (Optional)
• Video: Recursion in Action in the IT Context
• Reading: Additional Recursion Sources
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Recursion
• Video: Loops Wrap Up
• Video: In Marga's Words: How I Got Into Programming
• Discussion Prompt: Solving Problems with Loops
• Week 4: Strings, Lists and Dictionaries
• Video: Basic Structures Introduction
• Video: What is a string?
• Video: The Parts of a String
• Reading: String Indexing and Slicing
• Video: Creating New Strings
• Reading: Basic String Methods
• Video: More String Methods
• Reading: Advanced String Methods
• Video: Formatting Strings
• Reading: String Formatting
• Reading: String Reference Cheat Sheet
• Reading: Formatting Strings Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Strings
• Video: What is a list?
• Reading: Lists Defined
• Video: Modifying the Contents of a List
• Reading: Modifying Lists
• Video: Lists and Tuples
• Reading: Tuples
• Video: Iterating over Lists and Tuples
• Reading: Iterating Over Lists Using Enumerate
• Video: List Comprehensions
• Reading: List Comprehensions
• Reading: Lists and Tuples Operations Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Lists
• Video: What is a dictionary?
• Reading: Dictionaries Defined
• Video: Iterating over the Contents of a Dictionary
• Reading: Iterating Over Dictionaries
• Video: Dictionaries vs. Lists
• Reading: Dictionary Methods Cheat Sheet
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Dictionaries
• Video: Basic Structures Wrap Up
• Video: In Marga's Words: My Most Challenging Script
• Discussion Prompt: Discussion Prompt
• Week 5: Object Oriented Programming (Optional)
• Video: OOP Introduction (Optional)
• Video: What is Object-oriented programming? (Optional)
• Reading: Object-Oriented Programming Defined
• Video: Classes and Objects in Python (Optional)
• Reading: Classes and Objects in Detail
• Video: Defining New Classes (Optional)
• Reading: Defining Classes (Optional)
• Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz: Object-oriented Programming (Optional)
• Video: Instance Methods (Optional)
• Reading: What Is a Method?
• Video: Constructors and Other Special Methods (Optional)
• Reading: Special Methods
• Video: Documenting Functions, Classes, and Methods (Optional)
• Reading: Documenting with Docstrings
• Reading: Classes and Methods Cheat Sheet (Optional)
• Video: About Jupyter Notebooks (Optional)
• Reading: Help with Jupyter Notebooks (Optional)
• Ungraded Lab: Methods and Classes (Optional)
• Video: Inheritance (Optional)
• Reading: Object Inheritance
• Video: Composition (Optional)
• Reading: Object Composition
• Video: Python Modules (Optional)
• Reading: Augmenting Python with Modules
• Reading: Supplemental Reading for Code Reuse (Optional)
• Ungraded Lab: Code Reuse (Optional)
• Video: OOP Wrap Up (Optional)
• Video: In Marga's Words: My Favorite Course (Optional)
• Ungraded Lab: Practice Notebook: Object Oriented Programming (Optional)
• Discussion Prompt: Object Oriented Programming Assignment (Optional)
• Week 6: Final Project
• Video: Final Project Introduction
• Video: Problem Statement
• Video: Research
• Video: Planning
• Video: Writing the Script
• Video: Putting It All Together
• Video: Using Graded Jupyter Notebooks
• Ungraded Lab: Putting It All Together
• Video: In Marga's Words: Developing an Inclusive Curriculum
• Video: Final Project Overview
• Reading: Final Project Help
• Ungraded Lab: Final Project: WordCloud
• Discussion Prompt: Share your word cloud!
• Video: Congratulations!
• Discussion Prompt: Your Learner Journey
• Video: Sneak Peek of the Next Course