University of Michigan

Using Databases with Python

This course is part of Python for Everybody Specialization

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What you'll learn

  • Use the Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations to manage databases

  • Explain the basics of Object Oriented Python

  • Understand how data is stored across multiple tables in a database

  • Utilize the Google Maps API to visualize data

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There are 5 modules in this course

To start this class out we cover the basics of Object Oriented Python. We won't be writing our own objects, but since many of the things we use like BeautifulSoup, strings, dictionaries, database connections all use Object Oriented (OO) patterns we should at least understand some of its patterns and terminology.

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12 videos4 readings2 quizzes

We learn the four core CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) to manage data stored in a database.

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6 videos1 quiz2 app items

In this section we learn about how data is stored across multiple tables in a database and how rows are linked (i.e., we establish relationships) in the database.

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8 videos1 quiz1 app item

In this section we explore how to model situations like students enrolling in courses where each course has many students and each student is enrolled in many courses.

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4 videos1 quiz1 app item

In this section, we put it all together, retrieve and process some data and then use the OpenStreetMaps API to visualize our data.

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5 videos3 readings1 app item

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Charles Russell Severance
University of Michigan
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