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About the Course

This course aims to teach everyone the basics of programming computers using Python. We cover the basics of how one constructs a program from a series of simple instructions in Python. The course has no pre-requisites and avoids all but the simplest mathematics. Anyone with moderate computer experience should be able to master the materials in this course. This course will cover Chapters 1-5 of the textbook “Python for Everybody”. Once a student completes this course, they will be ready to take more advanced programming courses. This course covers Python 3....
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High quality instructor

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Introductory course

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Top reviews

AB

Aug 23, 2020

Great introduction to Python and programming as a whole. Everything is broken down making it easy to understand. Had zero programming experience before and this class made it easy and fun to get into.

SM

Mar 24, 2016

excellent for beginners, very well described, great understanding grasped and its simple, very simple, but thats what makes it 5 star, is that its for anyone or as the title says pythong for Everybody

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By Li C

Aug 12, 2018

It is a great courses that I learned a lot from the courses, and I think the courses is not too hard for the people who do not have a background on python, c++ or things like that.

By mohamed s

May 24, 2018

This is a good course for beginners in programming and to students that wants to begin coding in python

it is a good introduction for computer programming and for python language .

By Justin B

Feb 22, 2018

The internet is overflowing with beginner intro to python online courses. After trying several this one proved to be the course I stuck with, and began my journey into programming.

By Benjamin H

Jan 14, 2018

Thank you for this course - it was just what I was looking for!

Great introduction to Python and I am ready to go deeper. Thank you to Charles Severance who is an excellent teacher!

By Alan J

Nov 30, 2017

Well paced. The lectures were very informative. The assignments were just the right level of difficulty to push you to use the information you learned. I would highly recommend.

By Akshay V C

Sep 25, 2017

For a beginner to programming, this is a very easy to understand course as every concept is covered from the basics. While someone who knows a programming language but has been out

By Felipe C

Aug 12, 2017

Great teacher, great lessons, this course was really helpful and I feel really motivated to continue in my change of career, I want to become a professional programmer. Thank you!!

By Parichay T

Mar 26, 2017

Course is excellent. Everything in the course was clearly explained by Dr. Chuck. But I somehow felt this was a really easy course. Should have come across a bit harder coursework.

By liam

Feb 25, 2017

This course was a lot of fun! I did most of the programming on a Raspberry Pi 3. I literally knew nothing about Python programming before starting this. This course was awesome.

By Stuart M

Feb 4, 2017

Really excellent introduction. Easy to follow and fun, while making you think about what is happening. Inspires enthusiasm and confidence in my ability to handle more complex work.

By Ananda T K

Sep 17, 2016

It was really good experience and very good learning platform. With this course I have gained confidence about my python programming skills. Thank you very much for the instructor.

By Viola S

Jul 24, 2016

I really like how Dr. Severance's way of teaching. His style is unrestricted funny. That's really makes me interest in learning programming. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate that!

By Andrew T

Mar 6, 2016

Loved this course. Learning the basics of the programming language python was quite easy. I highly recommend this course for those interested in picking up the python language.

By Alexander H

Jan 3, 2016

Dr Charles Severance is clear, accessible and relatable in his approach to teaching.

This course will guide you from basic principles to running your very own simple python scripts.

By Deleted A

May 7, 2023

While I was already familiar with Python, I had not had the opportunity to learn it in an organized environment. If you are in the same situation as I was, this course is for you.

By Christina K

Sep 20, 2022

Extremely accessible class. If you haven't seen programming before, this is appropriate. If you're proficient in other programming languages, you can speed through this in a day.

By Ava m

Sep 9, 2022

It was a very interesting and informative course. The main concepts were taught in the best way and the exercises and quizes were very intelligently designed. Thank you very much!

By CAIO C C

Nov 22, 2021

This course is amazing. I have never get into python before and after the course I feel that I know way better now. It's a great start for people that never learned python before.

By Gowshikan A

Sep 13, 2021

This course is really helpful in developing my python programming skill from scratch. Explanations are simple and understandable. looking forward to the next staged of the course.

By Goutham K

Jul 22, 2021

Incredibly helpfull and well made lectures with good exercises. helped me gain confidence in pursuing my studies in programming . I have already recomended this to all my friends.

By Omar E

Jul 20, 2021

Amazing instructor, Even though I already knew almost everything in that course I had such a blast finishing it. I think I will take the rest of the courses in this specialization

By Shweta G A

Apr 18, 2021

Thank you to the mentor, team coursera and the other people who indirectly helped me to improve my skills. I had learn lots of concepts and also clear my doubts. Thank You...!!!!

By HARSH V

Mar 12, 2021

Good course to improve the basic understanding of the programming .Specially thank a lot to the my instructor that motivates and help the student to learn a things a easy manner .

By Jon M

Dec 12, 2020

I was watching videos and taking quizzes on an Ipad and writing code on an Imac. There were several quizzes that the complete code necessary to answer the question was not showing

By Marina S S S

Nov 5, 2020

Dr Charles Russell Severance's lessons are very well presented and enjoyable. I enjoyed each lesson and looked forward to the quizzes and assignments to see how far I have learnt.