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About the Course

This two-part course is designed to help students with very little or no computing background learn the basics of building simple interactive applications. Our language of choice, Python, is an easy-to learn, high-level computer language that is used in many of the computational courses offered on Coursera. To make learning Python easy, we have developed a new browser-based programming environment that makes developing interactive applications in Python simple. These applications will involve windows whose contents are graphical and respond to buttons, the keyboard and the mouse. In part 1 of this course, we will introduce the basic elements of programming (such as expressions, conditionals, and functions) and then use these elements to create simple interactive applications such as a digital stopwatch. Part 1 of this class will culminate in building a version of the classic arcade game "Pong"....

Top reviews

FR

Apr 5, 2016

Muy buen curso, excelente introducción a python y que mejor que aprender con ejercicios que motiven como los juegos propuestos en clase. Gracias a los profesores y a Coursera por brindarnos este curso

MP

May 28, 2017

The best python course i ever had thanks to the teachers therereally awesome, and the classes are very pleasant. if your aout there trying to start with programming, i definitely recommend this course

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By Matteo P

Apr 12, 2019

Very good approach...Maybe to much mathematics things on programming language. I would prefer some cases and algorithms referring to "normal life". and... I don't agree 100% with the choice to use only codeskulptor. in particularly program graphic interface I would prefer to use standard graphic python library.

By John f

Mar 11, 2019

This is a beginner level course. that being said i came to this course as a true beginner programmer. I picked up the subject matter well enough but felt like some of the lectures glossed over some subjects and there was not enough practice work to become truly proficient with all the subjects.

By Chris

Aug 20, 2020

Good overall. Some of the levity from the instructors was a little distracting. I had some difficulty getting a peer-review project graded in Week 4. The course helped me understand the basics of using modules to write GUIs into python programs.

By Deleted A

Jun 27, 2020

not appropriate with the beginners, because it doesn't cover all the details and all the fundamentals. It just gives you the important things

By Daniela N A

Jul 15, 2019

We should have learned about oop first before doing GUI stuff, but I guess they thought otherwise :(

By Asad J

Nov 7, 2019

The audio quality of the instructors is poor and hard to understand.

By RISHIKA D

Jan 5, 2022

it was a great experience

By Vivaswan S

Mar 13, 2020

Out-Dated Course

By SAYAN S

Jan 23, 2022

good

By Engy K T

Sep 6, 2021

By Saman S

Apr 13, 2023

Unfortunately, the course uses outdated methods for teaching Python, as well as using an outdated version of Python (python2) syntaxes. The exam questions usually have several right answers which makes it a bit annoying, and you can still fail even with a fair amount of correct answers. As I mentioned, the methods are outdated, and the videos are so long. The basic concepts could have been explained very shorter, making them more engaging.

Overall, I appreciate the structure of the course, and the projects are really exciting.

By Cryptorious G

Jan 25, 2024

Outdated course. Needs to be brought up to speed and teaching python 3 rather than the early days of python 2. this course is outdated by at least 10+ yrs. I am sure the majority of the foundations are accurate with nuances here and there but folks expect up to date information when learning for a job in todays computer fields....its like being taught how to chisel a rock wheel for the flintstone car vs learning to utilize the rubber ones for the cars of today. I am not gonna pay to be taught old out of date material

By Ravi s

Apr 19, 2023

not enough explanation done by the course instructors ,they jump to high level without teaching the logic or the algorithmic logic behind it, would take a good 3 months to finish course instead of a month

By Neeraj R

Feb 15, 2023

The version of Python used is outdated

By Nidhi D

Jun 14, 2020

Money got deducted from my account after 7 days of trial I have opted though I didnt like the course and I hardly listen a day of 2-3 lectures. I found it non interesting. I was not aware that you will deduct the money without shooting an update or a mail to remind a customer. First time I was using this service and wasnt aware that it will automatically deduct money if I forgot to cancel the subscription which I just did it once my got deducted. Now its showing its non-refundable course. I am really disappointed and heart-broken for such waste of money on a course which M no more interested in. You can see it that I hardly check the course and 2-3 videos on first day only and then didnt try it again.

I highly request you to please refund my money , its waste for me and I cant do this course at all. I was a new to this payment method and unfortunately unaware of all this will happen. I know its my mistake of not going through the complete policy document of your course as no body has that much time. I was having an impression that ill get an update or mail for money deduction before actually deducting it. So please please pay me bacl

By Hailin H

Apr 30, 2020

I found it really scammy and it's one of my most unpleasent experience. May I ask why after the payment I couldn't access most of the assignments? And it happened only to the first course. I need to pay 44 dollars every month and now it told me that I had to wait till next month to unlock the assignments. I created another account and enrolled in the course for free, and I found even with that account I could access the assignments, and the deadlines were much earlier. This doesn't make any sense, and I want my money back.

By Na Z

Sep 23, 2022

The worst course I've ever taken!!!!! Don't wast your time unless you are very rich and have nothing to do. They asked 5 peer revview to pass the course for each project, and they force you to read the optional material otherwise you can't pass the quiz. They only test the hardest part in the quiz to keep you as long as you can in each course so that they can earn money. Anyone see this PLEASE RUN AWAY FROM THIS WORST COURSE!!!!

By Noemi G G

Oct 5, 2020

La metodología es incorrecta.

Hay temas nunca mencionados que se introducen en las preguntas de evaluación, indicando acceder a nuevo material para poder responder (incluso a videos que se incluyen más adelante).

Los videos están desactualizados y se agregaron indicaciones tratando de ajustarlos a las nuevas versiones. El uso de Codescuilptor no parece adecuado.

Decidí abandonarlo antes de perder más tiempo.

By Jaya P D

Oct 2, 2024

This course is too old. The content need to be updated and the python version which is being used to teach in this course is too old so it is wast of time to take this course. So please update this course.

By Philip F

May 26, 2021

Not very good. Course relies exclusively on super sketchy user interface.

By Alan K

May 11, 2021

only provide python2 but now we need to use python3

By Kavita S

Oct 8, 2020

I want to be unenroll from this course please.

By Turky A

Aug 2, 2021

the quizes aren't like what i expected

By Dr. S D

Mar 30, 2020

Not use its not grading

By Michele T

Jan 30, 2021

Not a beginner class