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This course is part of Computational Thinking with JavaScript Specialization
Instructors: Quintin Cutts
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Beginner level
An initial understanding of JavaScript, ideally from the Computational Thinking in JavaScript 1: Draw and Animcate course.
Recommended experience
Beginner level
An initial understanding of JavaScript, ideally from the Computational Thinking in JavaScript 1: Draw and Animcate course.
Learners will discover how to process, analyse and visualize data using simple JavaScript libraries and data structures.
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This is the second course in a sequence of four courses that develops essential 21st century computational thinking (CT) skills using the popular JavaScript programming language.
At the end of this second course you will: know a framework for CT to help you model the real world using abstract data structures; have developing CT skills so that you can perform comon data analytics tasks; be able to read and write programs in JavaScript that involve processing, analysing and visualizing data, using a specialised library; and post your creations on the web to share your code with others. This course is suitable for: learners who have taken the first course in this specialization 'Computational Thinking in JavaScript 1: Draw and Animate' or for those who have basic JavaScript skills and want to learn about simple data analytics.
We introduce the array data structure in JavaScript, which is used to represent an ordered sequence of data values.
6 videos2 readings2 assignments1 programming assignment3 discussion prompts3 ungraded labs
We introduce JavaScript objects, which are named collections of values, used to model real-world entities.
4 videos5 assignments1 discussion prompt3 ungraded labs
Data structures can be embedded inside other data structures, to model more complex real-world entities.
4 videos1 reading2 assignments2 discussion prompts4 ungraded labs
We integrate the various concepts we have introduced throughout this course, to build a data processing system to cluster data into similar groups
3 videos2 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt1 ungraded lab
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