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About the Course

This course introduces classes, instances, and inheritance. You will learn how to use classes to represent data in concise and natural ways. You'll also learn how to override built-in methods and how to create "inherited" classes that reuse functionality. You'll also learn about how to design classes. Finally, you will be introduced to the good programming habit of writing automated tests for their own code. The course is best-suited for you if you are already familiar with Python fundamentals, which are covered in the "Python Basics" and "Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries" courses (courses 1 and 2 of the Python 3 Programming Specialization). It is optional to have taken the "Data Collection and Processing with Python" course (course 3 of the specialization), but knowledge of retrieving and processing complex nested data is helpful. This is the fourth of five courses in the Python 3 Programming Specialization....

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SK

Dec 6, 2020

As always like how I told, there's no doubt about this being the best python course that you will ever find, and take it from a guy who never found interest in studying until now.

Thank you.

MS

Jun 24, 2023

An amazing course! Thank you so much. Everything about this course was incredible, especially the final project. As always, I thoroughly enjoyed solving problems in the Runestone environment.

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By Mark G

Feb 4, 2019

Well done course. Learned quite and reinforced things that I have learned in the pass.

By Shiang-ping H

Feb 21, 2019

Great Intro course into Python OOP.

By Jaime G

Sep 20, 2021

The course itself is well organized. I liked the interactive textbook and the videos. The textbook could be lengthy and not well written in parts, but generally helpful. This course is better than most of the online courses that I have participated in. The reason that I will not rate this a 5 is the ease of use in coursera in general. I could not figure out how to join the forum and how to get help on assignments. I have finished this course 99% and I got a 87.5% on one assignment, so it will not consider it complete. I have no one to ask what is going on. It is very difficult to figure out how to get help on the programming itself. I can get answers using google, but this is considered not within the code of ethics? I think it is cool to do a course like this online, because of the convenience, but good luck in getting the "official" certification!

By Cevat A S

Aug 17, 2019

Could have been more comprehensive like multi-inheritance

By Zahid U R

Apr 24, 2022

While the course materials are okay, this is a complicated topic and more focus should have been placed on classes and inheritance. Last week of the course did not go into that at all. And the final exam is extremely poorly designed. It is almost impossible to understand what we are supposed to do. This exam needs to be revamped completely. Overall a disappointing experience.

By Enrique G

Nov 30, 2021

How would you learn to code with almost no coding exercises? Unfortunately, that's the case here as quizzes are just not enough to get you prepared for programming.

I do not really understand the course structure either, it feels a bit messy as the instructors seem to jump on the topics randomly.

By Yun Y

May 30, 2020

我觉得这门课老师几乎在对着代码重读,无法提供深入理解 那我不如自己找一段代码学?

By Ali D

Jun 18, 2021

This was the worst out of all of the courses so far. It was rushed and it didn't teach anything about the super keyword. Also, they could have done a better job with the end of course project , to make it more exciting. They should have made us write the Tamagotchi game from scratch, and never showed it to us in the first place. Hoping I won't get disappointed with the next course in this specialization.

By Nipun D N

May 6, 2020

The name of the course is misleading. The third week mostly talks about test and exception which is not entirely related to class or inheritance. Also, sometimes the instructor talked about something that was not introduced yet (e.g., class and instance variables, __str__() method). Overall, it seems disorganized and disappointing. I hope the organizers will improve the course in the near future.

By Mohammad H

Dec 7, 2020

Awful. Not expected. Very poorly explained. Didn't understand anything.

By Louie Y

Sep 27, 2020

project this course is so bad!

By Nicoletta H

Jan 24, 2020

This has been fourth course I completed in the specialization and I finished the whole thing in the meantime. Like the courses before and also other courses by the Michigan School of Information, the course materials are perfectly thought through and produced. The course is challenging as it should be, but totally doable. I never felt overwhelmed (though I admit I had some basic prior programming knowledge in in a different language). All in all, I highly recommend everyone to push through the specification. Thanks to Professor Resnick and his team!

By Habib H S

Jul 3, 2019

Already completed past three courses of this specialization.

This 4th one is also awesome. <3

facing some problems. In past courses all the assignments code was explained in videos .But in this course's assignments contain huge lines of code & its hard to understand all the line by line code with a long time.

I think they should provide some videos explaining those lengthy codes :(

Though its tough for beginner, but who are used to with coding before they will enjoy.

By hrushikesh p

Jul 13, 2020

first of all i thank to all facalty for this course and also all members of the course to provide free course to all. I had a great experience in following course from start till end , and i enjoyed a lot during course duration . I enjoyed watching videos and solving exemples side by side.

lastly i again thank all the members for providing me this course that to free of cost.

thank you

By 王志诚

Aug 21, 2023

Dear teacher

I am a high school student from Adecot, Shanghai, and I enjoy computer programming.

I found this course through searching and browsing Python programming courses, and have already studied two courses in this series, which deeply attracted me. The teacher's explanation was very detailed, and many of the problems I encountered have been perfectly solved.

Thank you.

By Stella B

Aug 12, 2019

Amazing course! though the instruction in the last assessment are very vague and could be interpreted in couple of ways. I wish the Staff would have dedicate more time for the final assessment instructions and further breakdown each task. Some the things in the last assessment didn't make any sense and I had to trial and error many times until I solved the issue.

By Shubham T

Apr 24, 2020

This course, being a part of the specialization course, has made my several concepts clear.

I'm don't consider myself a coder, but yeah now i can cosider myself a programmer, a programmer who can think and analyze, what is happening inside the code. All thanks to University of Michigan.

Thankyou, instructors and a big thanks to all community members

By AMIT N 1

May 17, 2020

Honestly, enjoyed the teachers as much as the content I was learning. Little intimidating at first, I avoided it for a while before I decided to dedicate myself to it, and now it's like, the three weeks are up? Already? Was super comfortable with Java, and Python always felt foreign, but this course has now added a very personal element to it.

By MERVIN J

Jun 9, 2019

There was a big issue with the week three final project. Several blog post about the attribute type error for the getMove method for WOFComputerPlayer class. We should have better clues about what test case was run to generate that failure. Spent several hours of cleaning up the code and making sure the getMove method does not return None.

By Bikash D

Sep 8, 2019

The course is awesome. It deals with Python Classes and Inheritance and it also gives a taste of Unit Testing in Python and how it is done.

The course ends with a project 'Wheel of Fortune' where the students are made to write classes also use Inheritance so not to repeat code.

Overall it's a fantastic course and i loved it.

By Santiago A

Jul 7, 2020

Great course! It really complemented what I learnt in the Python for Everybody Specialization and it goes deeper on classes and inheritance. By no means you become an expert, but you get more practice and a project or two where you have to use it. The professors have a great pedagogic style and are very supportive.

By Jorus T

Aug 26, 2020

Nice way to help understand classes and inheritance, practices in between are very nice and helpful, as is the last, although not an easy one. All of the python courses are giving an excellent overview and detailed information on how python is working, how to use and what can be done with it. Thanks.

By Jinesh S

Jul 18, 2020

This is an excellent course when accompanied by the previous 3 courses in the specialization, this course provides in-depth knowledge about classes and their inheritance from Superclass. Really like the way that the instructors have given the information and knowledge about the subject!

By PANIDAPU H C

Apr 6, 2020

FIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PROFESSORS AND INSTRUCTORS FOR THIS COURSE.THIS COURSE IS EXCELLENT. THE WAY OF TEACHING IS VERY VERY NICE.I LIKE PROFESSOR PAUL RESNICK VIDEOS.AND ALSO PROFESSOR STEVE ONEY'S TEACHING.I WOULD LIKE TO DO MORE AND MORE COURSES IN FUTURE.

By Ashok Y

Jul 16, 2023

This course taught me the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Python, including how to create classes, define methods, and use inheritance. I also learned about polymorphism. Runestone Interactive textbook environment is very helpful in practicing concepts.