Course Overview
Uncover the Agency's secrets by completing Smith's top-secret assignments, while learning Python and getting a glimpse into the field of data science.
Do you have a knack for details? Or dreams of following in the steps of a great detective? Well, you're just the person we're looking for. In this follow up course to Intro to Data Science, you'll decryptic messages from mysterious beacons, delve into ciphers and string substitutions and tail the vaultBreakers by tracking their movements. And... has anyone seen Agent Smith?
This course contains over 65 activities.
Course Topics
- How to program in Python
- How to use dictionaries
- How to write and consume JSON
- How to go from design to implementation
- How to format large datasets
Projects
Each project of the course contains many video micro-lessons and practical exercises.
A Strange Beacon
13 activities
Break open the beacon stolen from the vaultBreakers and solve its puzzle.
Password Screen
8 activities
Build a secure login interface for the agents of the Agency.
Hiding in Plain Sight
7 activities
Hide a message in plain sight by building a cipher algorithm.
Track the vaultBreakers
8 activities
Banks have been robbed. Now it's your job to find who did it.
Data Filtration System
7 activities
Help Smith escape a grim fate by finding a safe city for him.
Data Formatting System
7 activities
Format the safest city data so the agents can parse it correctly.
Smith Is Gone
7 activities
Something has gone horribly wrong…
A World in Chaos
8 activities
Smith needs to be found. Alive.
