Jaclyn Cohen

Jackie Cohen is a Lecturer III at the University of Michigan School of Information. She teaches programming and computing courses of all levels, but her particular focus is on introductory programming courses. She builds course resources and designs curricula that help students with all kinds of goals learn computer programming skills, and help instructors support students.

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Data Collection and Processing with Python (Coursera)

This course teaches you to fetch and process data from services on the Internet. It covers Python list comprehensions and provides opportunities to practice extracting from and processing deeply nested data. You'll also learn how to use the Python requests module to interact with REST APIs and what to [...]

Python Basics (Coursera)

This course introduces the basics of Python 3, including conditional execution and iteration as control structures, and strings and lists as data structures. You'll program an on-screen Turtle to draw pretty pictures. You'll also learn to draw reference diagrams as a way to reason about program executions, which will [...]

Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries (Coursera)

This course introduces the dictionary data structure and user-defined functions. You’ll learn about local and global variables, optional and keyword parameter-passing, named functions and lambda expressions. You’ll also learn about Python’s sorted function and how to control the order in which it sorts by passing in another function as [...]