Data plays a crucial role in application development. It plays such a crucial role that there are people called Database Administrators that specialize in just organizing the data. The traditional database used to be, and often still is, a relational database. MongoDB is more flexible than a relational database, and as such provides the developer with a database that can easily be changed during the development phase.
Create a Python Application using PyMongo and MongoDB Database
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Instructor: David Dalsveen
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How to create a database and collection using PyMongo
How to populate a collection with documents
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Prepare JSON
Create Database
Insert Documents
Practice Task: Creating a MongoDB database and collection.
Query Collection
Update the Collection
Optional Capstone Task: Create and Query a MongoDB Users database Collection.
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Learners should be familiar with some Python, including variables and input/output, and the basic control constructs.
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