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About the Course

Kickstart your Python journey with this beginner-friendly, self-paced course taught by an expert. Python is one of the most popular programming languages, and the demand for individuals with Python skills continues to grow. This course takes you from zero to programming in Python in a matter of hours—no prior programming experience is necessary! You’ll begin with Python basics, including data types, expressions, variables, and string operations. You will explore essential data structures such as lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets, learning how to create, access, and manipulate them. Next, you will delve into logic concepts like conditions and branching, learning how to use loops and functions, along with important programming principles like exception handling and object-oriented programming. As you progress, you will gain practical experience reading from and writing to files and working with common file formats. You’ll also use powerful Python libraries like NumPy and Pandas for data manipulation and analysis. The course also covers APIs and web scraping, teaching you how to interact with REST APIs using libraries like requests and extract data from websites using BeautifulSoup. You will practice and apply what you learn through hands-on labs using Jupyter Notebooks. By the end of this course, you’ll feel comfortable creating basic programs, working with data, and automating real-world tasks using Python. This course is suitable for individuals interested in pursuing careers in Data Science, Data Analytics, Software Development, Data Engineering, AI, and DevOps and a variety of other technology-related roles....

Top reviews

PJ

Dec 1, 2020

It is a good course and teaches with the basic of Python so that anyone can understand it very well. Videos are good and can easily be understandable to anyone who is new to Python and Data Science.

DR

Sep 28, 2024

This course was really helpful in make me understand all the topics of Python from scratch, including the slightly advanced topics, of APIs, for my level as a freshman just getting settled in college.

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By Darshan K

Jul 4, 2022

This course really a good to learn Python for data science. I learned a lot and even good hands-on examples give the best knowledge about the same.

By Ramón B

Nov 26, 2021

Great review of the basics of Python. From 0 to pretty good level of knowledge in just 5 weeks of course. Took me three full mornings to completed.

By Data A

Apr 23, 2021

It gave a basic understanding of how Python is used in Data Analytics.

Instructors were very detail-oriented in explaining every step I should take.

By abitz s

Jul 20, 2020

A great course for Python beginners. The last homework lacks enough explanation, which confused me. However I got the solution in the course forum.

By Liviu B

Oct 16, 2019

This basics programming course for data science left me feeling that Python is so nice and elegant, simple and powerful, clear and logical.

Thanks!

By Aahna S

Nov 9, 2024

This course was good for beginners to understand each term and to know the step of Data Scientist is Data Engineer processing. I like the module.

By Nelson M

Sep 1, 2022

Excellent ! This training is oriented to those who has the basic knowledge on programming. The lectures are quite clear. I recommended it so far !

By marcelo c

May 3, 2022

Excellent Course!!! Teaches all the key important aspects of the Python language. Must be enrolled by anyone who is following this trainning path!

By gaurav b

Jun 24, 2021

It was a very fast paced course This is recommended for those who are having basic knowledge of python so that they can cope up with the indepths

By Moiz

Aug 3, 2020

Great course requires no prior programming experience and covers basics in detail. Would recommend to anyone looking to start somewhere in Python.

By Damilola O

May 2, 2020

This course is the most intense I've come across so far, but very deep and insightful at the same time. I'm happy a good foundation is being laid.

By Thái H D

Mar 18, 2020

The course is really helpful to start using python and related libs for data manipulation and analysis. Much appreciated lecturers for the course!

By Hassan A

Mar 9, 2020

It was one of my fav course. The hand-on labs were mind blowing. I learned a lot of new things.

Thank you Coursera for bringing this course online.

By Mari M

Dec 2, 2019

Very useful course and more interactive. Examples are very easy to understand and Lab is really awesome to do our exercise and explore more on it.

By SACHIN G

Oct 11, 2019

The course is made in very simple language, anyone can learn from this course. The most amazing part of the course is Lab. Love you IBM & COURSERA

By Fanuel N

Jul 7, 2025

you leave this course feeling its worth. having learned all the essentials for the job market. I will definitely recommend this course to others.

By Joshua W

Feb 23, 2024

Videos and diagrams are super helpful. Not sure I would have passed otherwise. This is my first time having anything to do with coding....ever.

By Sooraj S

Oct 23, 2023

It was a great journey on going through the modules this course had provided. Thanks for giving me such a comprehensive curriculum in simple way.

By Snehank

May 13, 2023

The course helps in the better understanding of the core python concepts.

And also gives the brief knowledge about the pandas and numpy libraries.

By Birhane A

Jan 25, 2023

I got this course very interesting. The course materials are presented in a very clear, understandable precise and to the point manner.

Thank you!

By Nishant

Nov 27, 2022

Great course offered by IBM

Thanks to coursera for this course. Almost every topic is covered in this course.

Thanks again. It will really help me.

By Vardan S

Oct 18, 2022

It was great to start with this course because it was my first time learning python . Yet i was able to follow along nicely so thankyou so much.

By Jeferson S

May 29, 2020

Very objective and weel explained!

In a short time, you can step away from non-knowledge in python to start undertanding essential Python's tools.

By Dean M

Apr 5, 2020

A great course, from the very basics to being able to actually do some useful stuff and with pointers as to where to go next. Highly recommended!

By Olamide G

Jan 21, 2020

This course is easy to understand, I guess it was designed as an easy landing for a novice. It has really been helpful but I feel its not enough.