Using Databases with Python (Coursera)

This course will cover Chapters 14-15 of the book “Python for Everybody”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-13 of the textbook and the first three courses in this specialization. This course covers Python 3.

Course 4 of 5 in the Python for Everybody Specialization.

What You Will 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

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Object Oriented Python

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.

WEEK 2

Basic Structured Query Language

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

WEEK 3

Data Models and Relational SQL

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.

WEEK 4

Many-to-Many Relationships in SQL

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.

WEEK 5

Databases and Visualization

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