This Specialization builds on the success of the Python for Everybody course and will introduce fundamental programming concepts including data structures, networked application program interfaces, and databases, using the Python programming language. In the Capstone Project, you’ll use the technologies learned throughout the Specialization to design and create your own applications for data retrieval, processing, and visualization.



Python for Everybody Specialization
Learn to Program and Analyze Data with Python. Develop programs to gather, clean, analyze, and visualize data.

Instructor: Charles Russell Severance
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What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
- Databases
- Network Protocols
- Data Structures
- Database Systems
- Data Processing
- Database Design
- Web Services
- Data Store
- Web Scraping
- Relational Databases
- Computer Programming
- SQL
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Data Cleansing
- Data Modeling
- Data Visualization
- Restful API
- Programming Principles
- Python Programming
- JSON
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Specialization - 5 course series

Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
What you'll learn
- Install Python and write your first program 
- Describe the basics of the Python programming language 
- Use variables to store, retrieve and calculate information 
- Utilize core programming tools such as functions and loops 
Skills you'll gain

Python Data Structures
What you'll learn
- Explain the principles of data structures & how they are used 
- Create programs that are able to read and write data from files 
- Store data as key/value pairs using Python dictionaries 
- Accomplish multi-step tasks like sorting or looping using tuples 
Skills you'll gain

Using Python to Access Web Data
What you'll learn
- Use regular expressions to extract data from strings 
- Understand the protocols web browsers use to retrieve documents and web apps 
- Retrieve data from websites and APIs using Python 
- Work with XML (eXtensible Markup Language) data 
Skills you'll gain

Using Databases with Python
What you'll learn
- Use the Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations to manage databases 
- Explain the basics of Object Oriented Python 
- Understand how data is stored across multiple tables in a database 
- Utilize the Google Maps API to visualize data 
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
- Make use of unicode characters and strings 
- Understand the basics of building a search engine 
- Select and process the data of your choice 
- Create email data visualizations 
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