Programming 103: Saving and Structuring Data (FutureLearn)

You will explore various common types of structured files, including CSV and JSON, and also find out how to connect to a SQL database to use it in your Python programs.

This course is part of the Start Programming with Python program, which will enable you to in these three short courses you’ll discover how to start programming using Python.

Syllabus

Week 1: Persistent Data

Week 2: Structuring data

Week 3: Interacting with databases

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Demonstrate how to use Python to store and retrieve persistent data

- Describe the importance of data persistence and where it is used

- Compare different types of structured data

- Modify a program to store data in a JSON file

- Perform operations on a database using SQL statements