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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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    May 17, 2020

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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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    Sep 5, 2020

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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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    Jun 12, 2021

    Not only does the course make python easy to learn and understand, but the professors have an amazing ability to transcend space and time and make the student feel valued and cared for.

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    By Amanullah S

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    May 13, 2020

    Loved the course curriculum and lot of exercises to practice although it was tough during the project making . Any one should try this course to gain insights to Files , Dictionary .

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    By José E D V L

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    Jan 21, 2023

    PURE GOLD! the explanations and excercises were clear and easy to undersyand (but challenging hehe), the instructor teached very well. This is the best course of Python for begginers

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    By Oriana P P

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    Jul 12, 2020

    Excelente curso, contiene material de muy buena calidad, la plataforma para practicar es una maravilla ademas que se cuenta con interacción con otros estudiantes, recomiendo el curso

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    By Muhammad A

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    Apr 12, 2020

    Great introduction to functions and different data structures within Python! Gives you practical skills which you can use to make real-world (small) scripts to improve your workflow.

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    By Gary H

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    Feb 7, 2022

    Good course for proceding with a bioinformatics programming course. The mechanics of the final peer-reviewed project could be improved, but the instruction was organized and useful.

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    By VARUN S

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    Dec 16, 2020

    It is a very organized course. The only problem is the limitation of the inbuilt python interface. I have been using Jupyter notebook.. New students may not be aware of that option.

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    By Aditya B

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    Dec 13, 2020

    Great Course! Highly recommend this course. Runestone environment helped me so much in understanding the concepts and putting them to practice at the same time. Codelens is awesome.

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    By Sudeep K K V

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    Jul 13, 2020

    Amazing course to be honest,learned a lot and also enjoyed along the way.The course material was perfectly structured. Looking forward to the further courses in this specialization.

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    By Manuel I S M

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    Jul 22, 2020

    I really enjoy this course, the guidelines they put in for the final project were too useful, with that I was able to guide myself and have a better vision to carry out the program

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    By Ammar P

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    Aug 7, 2020

    the runestone textbook is do good. i did not even think learnng coding could be actually so interactive. the codelens also helps alt to undertand how python actually sees our code

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    By Luis F R C

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    Apr 22, 2020

    Great interactive course. The online coding platform makes learning easy and convenient. Teachers are very good as well, thoroughly explaining topics and giving lots of examples.

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    By Edwin L Q C

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    Oct 6, 2020

    Es de los mejores cursos que he tenido en Python en manejo Funciones y Diccionarios. Me llenó las expectativas en cuanto a poder practicar y entender el trasfondo. Lo recomiendo

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    By Andy S

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    Jun 3, 2019

    The instructors presentation is clear and concise. The pace is perfect for beginners in Python and the exercises and practice questions help reinforce the content in the course.

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    By Mary S

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    Sep 25, 2019

    Now that I've completed this course and its final project I can confidently say I'm an advanced beginner and well on my way to being at an intermediate level Python programmer.

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    By Lauren D

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    Jan 4, 2021

    I am feeling more confident as I write longer programs! The final project was a fun and challenging culmination of everything I learned in the course. Ready for course 3!

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    By pietro v

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    Nov 6, 2020

    Excellent instructors. The online interactive python interpreter is really useful to practice.

    I will definitely go on with this series of courses by the same instructors

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    By Alexandra K L

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    Jun 20, 2020

    Great course! Why? Because of the combination of videos, runestone environment and practice quizzes. It is a great course for anyone who want to learn Python programming

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    By Hyelda D

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    Jul 23, 2020

    Great and professional instructors, ample practice tools, and easy to follow materials. Would recommend this course for anyone looking to advance their Python knowledge

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    By atul k s

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    Aug 16, 2019

    its amazing learn for beginner . i am very thank full coursera and michigan family . but your support not easy possible to learn python.........so very very thank you

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    By Dimitrios G K

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    Aug 22, 2021

    Wonderful course with the help of interactive textbook I solved a lot of problems I faced since now. The assignment in the end was very instructive and useful also.

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    By BISHWANATH S

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    Jul 26, 2020

    It's a very helpful course in building knowledge of files, dictionaries and function also. I have learned sorting based on some particular property of a sequence.

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    By patrick F

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    Jan 23, 2023

    This is the best way to learn coding (at least for python, but also a good understanding for coding in general). The way they have you practice things is perfect.

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    By David L

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    Oct 7, 2019

    Great continuation of the first course. Clear, well-ordered lectures and practice-problems/exercises. Especially like the textbook as a companion to the lectures.

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    Aug 9, 2019

    This course will teach you how to write simple functions, how to work with dictionaries and files. And there are some good dad jokes in there as well. 5 out of 5

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