Course description
Python 3 Programming Specialization
This specialization teaches the fundamentals of programming in Python 3. We will begin at the beginning, with variables, conditionals, and loops, and get to some intermediate material like keyword parameters, list comprehensions, lambda expressions, and class inheritance.
You will have lots of opportunities to practice. You will also learn ways to reason about program execution, so that it is no longer mysterious and you are able to debug programs when they don't work.
By the end of the specialization, you'll be writing programs that query Internet APIs for data and extract useful information from them. And you'll be able to learn to use new modules and APIs on your own by reading the documentation. That will give you a great launch toward being an independent Python programmer.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
No prior experience required.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What You Will Learn
- How to inspect and understand APIs and third party libraries to be used with Python 3
- How to apply the Python imaging library (pillow) to open, view, and manipulate images, including cropping, resizing, recoloring, and overlaying text
- How to apply the python tesseract (py-tesseract) library with Python 3 in order to detect text in images through optical character recognition (OCR)
- How to apply the open source computer vision library (opencv) to detect faces in images, how to crop and manipulate these faces into contact sheets
Training Course Content
- Python Basics
- Python Functions, Files, and Dictionarie
- Data Collection and Processing with Python
- Python Classes and Inheritance
- Python Project: pillow, tesseract, and opencv
Course delivery details
This course is offered through University of Michigan, a partner institute of Coursera.
Suggested pace of 7 hours/week
Expenses
Please visit the Institute website for more information about tuition fees