Seth Frey

Dr. Seth Frey is a Communication professor at the University of California Davis and Senior Faculty at the UC Davis Datalab. He is also a contributor to Coursera's top-ranked specialization in Computational Social Science. He was a behavioral economist at Disney Research, a part of Walt Disney Imagineering, where he studied theme parks, team sports, and video games. His research now uses online communities as laboratories for the study of self-governance. Dr. Frey earned his B.A. from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Indiana University.

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Python Basics: Problem Solving with Code (Coursera)

A lot of code is building up from the most basic primitive elements of the language to increasingly faithful and meaningful things. In this course we will learn to author more complex ideas and capabilities in Python. In technical terms, you will learn dictionaries and how to work with [...]

Python Basics: Automation and Bots (Coursera)

Manipulating the flow of how your code runs is the major part of coding and learning to think in code. We'll experience turning logic into useful work by automatically reading all of Shakespeare, and by setting Python up to give you a call on the phone. In technical terms, [...]

Python Basics: Interacting with the Internet (Coursera)

Students will begin in Python by bridging between the basics of a programming language and interacting with the Internet in fun new ways. In technical terms, the parts of Python you'll learn are arithmetic, variables, values, and modules. At a higher level, we'll learn what an API is by [...]

Python Basics: Retrieving Online Data (Coursera)

Python doesn't just represent numbers, but also text and other kinds of things. In technical terms, the parts of Python you'll learn are strings, lists, Booleans, errors, lists, and list manipulation. At a higher level you will learn how people use code to represent real-world ideas. In the process [...]