Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries

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 an input. For your final project, you’ll read in simulated social media data from a file, compute sentiment scores, and write out .csv files. It covers chapters 1

• Explore dictionary data structures and user-defined functions
• Understand local and global variables and parameter passing techniques
• Apply sorted function and customize sorting order
• Complete a project analyzing social media data and exporting CSV files

• Basic knowledge of Python programming