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Programming Concepts in Python
In this course, you'll learn the higher-level concepts and techniques you'll need to be a successful data engineer.
- Beginner friendly
- 4 hrs
- 4 lessons
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Course overview
Develop a practical understanding of how Python represents data, encodes text, and works with files to optimize memory and disk usage.
What's inside
4 lessons
- 01 41 minBinary and Positional Number Systems
Learn how computers represent data internally, and how to represent numbers.
- 02 58 minEncodings and Representing Text in a Computer
Learn about encodings, unicode, bytes objects, how to encode and decode strings, and how these mechanisms help represent characters in a computer.
- 03 52 minReading and Writing to Files
Explore reading data from files, learn how to write to files, learn about the importance of encodings when reading files, and learn useful workflows when dealing with files.
- 04 70 minMemory and Disk Usage
Learn how to minimize and estimate how much size different types of data occupy.
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