Python 3 Programming Specialization – Coursera

Description

Python 3 Programming Specialization is a course to learn the basics of Python 3 and then become a professional independent Python programmer. This course series will teach you the basics of programming in Python 3. We start with the basics, including variable types, conditionals, loops, and get acquainted with some intermediate level topics, including the keyword parameters and the explanation of list, lambda, and class inheritance. If before this period Python for Everybody Specialization have passed, this course can help you learn the basics of Python more deeply.

What you will learn in the Python 3 Programming Specialization course:

How to review and understand third-party APIs and libraries for use in Python 3
How to use the Python image library (pillow) to open, view and manipulate the image, including cropping the image, changing the size and color, and placing text on the image.
How to use the Python tesseract library (py-tesseract) in Python 3 to recognize text in images using visual character recognition (OCR) technology.
How to use open source computer vision library (opencv) to recognize faces in images and how to cut and manipulate these faces into contact sheets

Course details:

Publisher: Coursera
teacher: Paul Resnick, Steve Oney, Jaclyn Cohen And Christopher Brooks
English language
Education level: introductory
Number of courses: 5

Courses available in the Python 3 Programming Specialization series:

COURSE 1
Python Basics

COURSE 2
Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries

COURSE 3
Data Collection and Processing with Python

COURSE 4
Python Classes and Inheritance

COURSE 5
Python Project: pillow, tesseract, and opencv

Course prerequisites:

it is also appropriate as a first set of courses in Python if you are already familiar with some other programming language, or if you are up for the challenge of diving in head-first.