Python Basics - Interacting with the Internet

Overview

This Python Basics - Interacting with the Internet course offered by Coursera in partnership with UC Davis will teach you how to use existing Python code to interact with data on the Internet in fun new ways. Instruction focuses on the conceptual basics of the programming language as it relates to working with online data. You'll be introduced to Python arithmetic operators, variables, values, and modules. At a higher level, you'll experience what an API is and how it works by playing with cat memes.

Separate from the technical part of coding, there's the psychological part. Topic lectures will address the human side of code, and make you feel more prepared to see yourself as someone who uses code. You won’t code from scratch yourself, but will use prepared code to accomplish tasks and see how it works. Additional code demonstrations are available in the honors module of the course to provide broad exposure to Python interactions with internet data.

What you'll learn

• Learn why it's worth learning to code and what an API is by dealing in the basic currency of the social Internet.

• Run "code notebooks" and discuss the psychological part of learning code to make you feel more prepared to see yourself as someone who codes.

• Apply the programming language Python and bridge between the basics of a programming language and interacting with the Internet in fun new ways.

• Using Python, you'll learn how to say one phrase in over 100 languages in Google Translate, and take simple phrases by translating them.