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Software Engineering Principles in Python

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Updated 02/2025
Learn about modularity, documentation, and automated testing to help you solve data science problems more quickly and reliably.
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Data scientists can experience huge benefits by learning concepts from the field of software engineering, allowing them to more easily reutilize their code and share it with collaborators. In this course, you'll learn all about the important ideas of modularity, documentation, & automated testing, and you'll see how they can help you solve Data Science problems quicker and in a way that will make future you happy. You'll even get to use your acquired software engineering chops to write your very own Python package for performing text analytics.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Functions in Python
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Software Engineering & Data Science

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Writing a Python Module

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Utilizing Classes

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Maintainability

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  • Lorenzo A.
    18 days

    good

  • lucas i.
    3 months

    It was amazing

  • Erich H.
    6 months

    This is a great course on class and package creation!! Definitely take it!

  • Sascha H.
    9 months

    It gave me a good first impression on the structures for libries.

  • Afnan Y.
    9 months

    Fantastic

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Lorenzo A.

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lucas i.

"This is a great course on class and package creation!! Definitely take it!"

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