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About the Course

This course provides an introduction to programming and the Python language. Students are introduced to core programming concepts like data structures, conditionals, loops, variables, and functions. This course includes an overview of the various tools available for writing and running Python, and gets students coding quickly. It also provides hands-on coding exercises using commonly used data structures, writing custom functions, and reading and writing to files. This course may be more robust than some other introductory python courses, as it delves deeper into certain essential programming topics....

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IN

Jun 29, 2023

All the contents are expressed direct and clear and no previous experience is needed, that's why I really enjoy this course. I would like to also understand Python comprehension lists in this course.

SB

Mar 26, 2021

Great explanations and lots of examples to follow on. The course built throughout so I had confidence in completing assignments though they were not easy. Great interaction in discussion forums.

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By Ayesha C

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Sep 8, 2022

It was amazing

By Sauleh K

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Aug 13, 2023

amazing course

By Narvelle F

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Sep 8, 2021

Great content

By Solden S

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Jul 23, 2021

Great course!

By Augustin W

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Apr 11, 2021

Learned a Ton

By ARINDAM R

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Mar 24, 2022

good section

By Branislav B

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Jun 6, 2022

Very nice!

By Oliver C

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Jan 13, 2022

Excellent!

By Muhammad B

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Aug 24, 2023

Excellent

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Jun 6, 2022

AMAZING

By ADITYA S

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Jan 17, 2022

awesome

By Nikhil

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Jun 15, 2021

goodddd

By Ruinan C

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Sep 7, 2022

Great!

By Cristina M

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Sep 12, 2021

Great!

By Jiahao H

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Jul 27, 2021

great!

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Apr 7, 2021

great

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Oct 15, 2023

good

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Jun 16, 2023

nice

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Aug 11, 2022

Good

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Jun 27, 2022

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May 1, 2022

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Jan 12, 2022

Good

By HARSHAL P

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Nov 2, 2021

Nice

By Arshdeep S

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Oct 27, 2021

good

By Richard C

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Sep 9, 2022

This is a good course for someone who has already spent some time using Python and needs a refresher. It will not be a fun experience if it is your first time using Python. The course dumps a lot of information on you very fast--it can overwhelm you if you don't already have a grasp on Python. My worry is that if you don't already know most of the material, it comes at you too fast for it to really stick.

I find the quizzes really easy. The exercises are difficult. I found the last assignment in the fourth week to be absolutely miserable. The exercise asks you to build a banking system, but it requires you to define large numbers of overly complicated functions. Pseudocode directions are provided to help, but it's just so much at once that it's really hard. It is passable, but it is really difficult and probably needlessly so. I probably spent more time working on the final assignment than I spent on the entire course prior to that. I think that's kind of ridiculous. The same material could be broken up into smaller exercises and it would be a lot less daunting. I don't know why so many programming courses do this, but it would be unfair to pretend that this is the only one with this difficulty. It's still a decent course and you'll learn the material, even if it's not as fun as it could be.

I really like the instructor and the quality of the lecture videos. I'm probably going to take the rest of the courses.