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Python Dictionaries, APIs, and Functions
In this course, you'll continue to learn the fundamentals of Python for development with dictionaries, APIs, and Python functions. You'll not only learn these concepts to organize your Python program for future analysis, you'll also break it down into smaller units to make it more manageable when your program becomes larger and more complex.
- Beginner friendly
- 6 hrs
- 4 lessons
- 1 project
- Premium
Course overview
Structure Python programs by working with dictionaries, functions, and APIs to retrieve data, organize logic, and support larger application workflows.
What's inside
4 lessons · 1 project
- 01 92 minDictionaries
<p>Learn to build frequency tables using dictionaries.</p>
- 02 77 minFunctions: Fundamentals
<p>Learn how to speed up your workflow using functions.</p>
- 03 47 minFunctions: Intermediate
<p>Learn more about using functions to write better code, while avoiding common pitfalls.</p>
- 04 66 minGuided Project: Build a Food Ordering App Project
For this project, you'll become a restaurant owner building a Python food ordering app. You'll use dictionaries, loops, and functions to create an interactive system for viewing menus, modifying carts, and placing orders.
- 05 71 minAPIs and the Requests Library
<p>This lesson introduces the term API (Application Programming Interface) and explains how it is used in Python. We discuss the <span style="color: rgb(235,87,87);background-color: rgba(135,131,120,0.15);font-size: 85%;">requests</span> library as an option for executing API endpoint calls, as well as the GET and POST endpoints and how they differ. Additionally, we explain JSON so you can understand how data is returned within a request response. By the end of the lesson, you will be able to make simple API calls using the <span style="color: rgb(235,87,87);background-color: rgba(135,131,120,0.15);font-size: 85%;">requests</span> library. </p>
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