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About the Course

This course is designed to teach you the foundations in order to write simple programs in Python using the most common structures. No previous exposure to programming is needed. By the end of this course, you will understand the benefits of programming in IT roles; understand basic Python syntax; explore different code editors and developer environments; be able to write simple programs using Python; figure out how the building blocks of programming fit together; and combine all of this knowledge to solve a complex programming problem. We'll start off by diving into the basics of writing a computer program. Along the way, you’ll get hands-on experience with programming concepts through interactive exercises and real-world examples. You’ll quickly start to see how computers can perform a multitude of tasks — you just have to write code that tells them what to do....

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FN

Nov 14, 2022

This is actually a really great start for beginners in python. I am an intermediate python developer so for me it was too basic, but still a nice refresher for all the basics that we sometimes forget.

AL

Nov 25, 2020

Very good crash course. Considering myself not a Python novice, maybe intermediate level, I even learned something new. Don't expect to be a Python expert after this, though, as it is a crash course.

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By Samarth S P

Jun 27, 2023

This is overalll a good course but i think google could teach more as there is so much to learn in python, even though its a crash course i think the tutor could explain more about how to implement the code in actual small projects. Also in the assignments the majority of the code is written as a fill in the blank type of problem rather than encouraging student to do it by themselves. Overall a 8.5 / 10 course.

By Eric L

May 29, 2020

It's really tough when you're a beginner to make it to the finish line. I think the encouragement from the presenter was very positive and the final assignment was just within my ability. I wish Jupyter Notebooks were introduced right at the start. I'm coming to grips with IDLE but I think an incremental approach using Jupyter Notebooks right from the start would have made the course easier and more enjoyable.

By Tyler C

Dec 19, 2020

Course was great overall! As an experienced Java developer going into Python, this course hits the main points for getting started with how to code in Python. My only issue was that some problems/instructions were explained a little unclearly, and that they didn't tech how to make a program, they just taught the basic syntax, however, they do plan on introducing that in another course. Overall great course!

By Crazy G

Aug 23, 2023

This course is perfect for beginners who are going to learn python for the very first time. It start slow and speed up pretty quickly. Obviously the student has to do his self study a lot. And he can only be a good programmer by practicing a lot and by not only completing this course. It also include optional content at the end which is very important in long term. As it include topics covered in OOP.

By Maria

Sep 16, 2021

Th course is great; however, the final assignment is such a waste of time. Nothing works! The forum is dead and there is no way to get help or get your question answered. I spent 2 days just googling trying to make the platform to work. I submitted my assignment with a provided submit button 5 times and it would give me 0/1 untill I tried to save my assignment in different formats and it got accepted.

By Uri P

Jul 3, 2022

Tha main instructor is very good , professional , eloquent & encouraging :-)

The main concepts taught are indeed fundamental & important.

What I was missing the most was way more practice & didactic division of the

more complex concepts to undertstand. Additionally, the gap between the lessons taught & the graded assessments can be quite big. It takes a lot of practice to internalize the new concepts.

By shivam p

Aug 14, 2020

The course was pretty good. Christine has explained all in a really good way. Easy to understand for beginners. One star missing is because there was times where in assessments we were supposed to use some functions not explained during videos. I know it won't be possible to explain all functions of a class but the important ones are necessary. Overall a good experience and a great start to python:)

By Gaston S

Feb 10, 2022

Un buen curso que se complica poco a poco, se puede hacer perfectamente con un leve conocimiento de inglés, aunque sería recomendable tenerlo algo fluido, algunas tareas falta algo de información en las clases y hay que buscarle la vuelta, en fin es un curso en el que hay que tener algo de conocimiento previo sobre habilidades informáticas simples, pero se aprende correctamente lo básico de python.

By Alvaro A

Aug 22, 2023

Useful course and covers fundamentals. I put 4* because I think videos are way to short and it is very annoying to receive an introduction and a wrap-up for a 4 minute video. They should be at least 10-15 min, less videos but longer. The "snake" introduction is also very annoying. It should be only at the beginning of a module, but not in EVERY single video. A waste of time and tiresome.

By Joshua M

Feb 29, 2020

I would give it a 5/5 but I feel like I had to go to the forums for learning from peers sometimes rather than re-watching the videos. Loops are tricky and I feel like the videos could have been more related to the questions that were going to be on the quizzes/assessments. Overall though, I liked the course and I felt accomplished when I finally didn't have to look up help anymore at the end.

By Julie “ P

Oct 14, 2021

Could be enhanced for visual learners by showing while telling more. The encouragement and self-pacing statements seemed rather excessive by the midpoint of the course. Some minor errors/issues. Final project was more a test of ability to parse discussion forum for solutions to import issues. But all in all, the course was good and did what it advertised. Good crash course on Python. Thanks!

By Diego A C

Jul 28, 2020

Sometimes is needed to apply some concepts when they are explained, in some stages, they provide alternatives that confuse me because are part of next stages during the development of the course, and sometimes when you put the code in your own console it works but in the proper environment of the course it produces as an output a mistake that sometimes you have to look for how to solve

By Daniel Y

Jun 22, 2022

Great course! I am giving 4 stars, not 5, only because there was minimal help on how to practice outside of repeating the same mini quizzes and rewatching videos. Fantastic explanations and examples of what Python can do and how to apply it in real scenarios. I would only hope to see some more practice work, or at least some direction on where a student could go for such practice.

By Ridham A S

Jun 27, 2020

The instructor was very good at what she was teaching...it was visible...i haven't given 5 starts because concepts like sets and composition weren't explained in depth but made use of later in the exercise part. But overall this crash course is very complete on its own and definitely one of the best available on the internet. Thanks for providing such professional expertise online.

By Roger F

Jun 23, 2022

Nice intro, Coursera is a little bumpy-grindy at times - lost the entire Final Assignment code base just before they went offline for (much needed) maintenance. But, I learned from that episode and fortunately I had already copied the code to my local computer.

I'm glad to get the basic course behind me, as the remainder of the course promises to be far more interesting.

By Carson F

Oct 25, 2021

Challenging especially if you are new to programming, you will have to do some practice and reading outside of what is given to you in the course. It is also not the greatest experience when using the provided integrated programming environment and thus I recommend using an IDE when trying your own scripts in this course. This course will allow you to grasp the foundation.

By Maurizio M

Sep 13, 2022

The Course could be easy for someone who has already a certain knowledge of programming. I personally found it well structured and some exercises helped me to better understand Python. The main advantage is to have to solve guided problems which gradually require more and more knowledge of the language. For me personally this was a good way to start to learn Python.

By Thomson L

Apr 16, 2023

I really enjoy this course on Coursera.it is both challenging and doable for beginners like myself. The first few weeks the tests are relatively easy but once the topic of loops and dictionary are involved it gets much harder. I really took my time to complete this course and I am glad I completed it. 9/10 and I will probably review the materials when I get stuck

By Deepak

Sep 11, 2020

Really fascinating course and I say, one of the best courses on Coursera. Even if you have no prior knowledge of python or any programming languages, you won't find it hard to understand the course material. It does get a bit hard in the end when OOP is introduced but with a little practice you'll do just fine. I highly recommend this to everyone. Happy Learning.

By Pratyush K

Apr 20, 2021

I've learnt a lot in this course and very happy because I can use this knowledge to boost up my IT career and get a job of my dreams. But I would like to point out one thing that affected me in some way, that is the course felt a little fast and hurried up in the last and the project was a lot to take up at the end. Otherwise the course is well written and good

By Steff W

Nov 16, 2022

The course material was fairly clear and easy to follow. I, personally, had a few issues using the jupyter notebook in the final assessment, as I hadn't worked out how to get the notebooks to give informative debug messages. I think a bit of a manpage or help text about what the WordCloud module routines require as inpute and give as outputs might be useful.

By Dmitry A R

Sep 28, 2021

Мне понравился этот курс. Но я уже немного знал Python. Если бы не знал, то было бы сильно тяжелее его освоить. Остались вопросы по ООП, но это была дополнительная тема и в зачет она не шла, как я понял.

Не могу не отметить реально крутую подачу материала. Google очень постарался.

Понравилось, что задания похожи на настоящие задачи, которые решают сисадмины.

By Daniel E

Nov 16, 2020

Course was good. Explanation of concepts and examples was good. The exercises got a little lost in the weeds at times though; which is to say, I spent more time trying to figure out what I was supposed to do rather than how to do it. That to me says, the exercises could use some refinement, which is the reason for losing 1 star in the review (4 star review)

By Midas L

May 26, 2020

The Instructor is one of the best few tutors that are amazing and good at what they do. In all my life i have meet lots of tutors and she is the third tutors that i will say best in all my tutors.

She is really amazing and made the all course very interesting and fun to study. Never a dull moment nor did i ever fell asleep while she was teaching.

She is A++

By James L

Sep 2, 2021

I really enjoyed the course. The instructor in the videos did an outstanding job explaining concepts. I also like how she inspired confidence by stating it was OK if you didn't understand certain concepts right away. I think that's an important piece that is often times left out, especially for folks highly critical on themselves. Thanks for the course!