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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries by University of Michigan

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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 "Py...
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    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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    The course content and the instructions was awesome and the step by step approach of guidance in the project helped me a lot in the fact that I have learned how to approach any problems statements.

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