This course is what I was looking for - an inexpensive course that covers all the important topics in detail!I would recommend everyone who's looking to learn to program to start with this course, as it builds the required concepts in a systematic approach.It is better if you download the free pdf of the book that was recommended in Week 1 of the course, as it has all the theory required to keep up with the lecture videos.

Absolutely wonderful! I never thought this course could gave me such kind of goosebumps. Dr.Chuck's teaching was on that top. It really meant the title of 'Programming for Everybody'. I was here to do my lab session as a part of my university work. And when you're doing those assignments and quizes it feels that you're exists on this modern technological world. Thank you Dr. Charles and Coursera team for this opportunity.

IT is very usefulful to me because I am from Mechanical Department and it is beginning for me.

I didn't expected that i can learn and implement the python language.

Thank you so much Dr. Charles who teach a very beautiful and meaningful class. And thank you coursera for giving us an opportunity to learn something in free of cost. Thank you everybody,

I am Hemendra Kumawat , Poornima College of Engineering ,Jaipur ,Rajasthan

I actually had previous python knowledge, and i have working on other programming languages for the past one year. But this course is very recommended for absolute beginners who want to get to know about programming language. Well, if you're not a CS student, you can take this course anyway. No problem at all, because the topics were very basic, and the teacher delivered them very nicely with relatable examples. Thank you

Mr. Charles is a wonderful tutor and has put so much thought into explaining the control flow of python language. I'm a computer science student so most of the concepts explained are familiar to me, even if you are a beginner he completely breaks down each and everything he explains which is extremely useful in burying the concepts in your mind. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to get started with python.

Learning is more than repeat guided steps in order to master them.

Learning is a change behavior of the brain in order to see the world differently.

So this course not only teach me how to program but also enhace my sensebility of seeing things around me.

To become a programer, to become a better person, to become more focused to become wise i recommend this classes.

Thank you a lot for all involved in this awesome course.

Really enjoyed the course. The material is clear and well presented, and the quality of tuition was brilliant. Very helpful discussion boards and relatively challenging assignments that force you to apply what you have learned. The pace is pretty relaxed which is great if you have a fulltime job or other commitments - then again, it is an introductory course, so that might be expected. Can't really think of any negatives.

Excel course to start learning python even if you don't have background in programming before. The instructor made the learning fun and exciting with his unique style in delivering the subject. Course syllabus is well organized and in sequence. Enjoyed the quality of the videos and the audio is so clear. The cosure need more exercises (non-graded excersies). This course is recommended for newbies in python just like me.

I have worked on python previously . I just wanted to brush up my skills, so I looked up for some courses here and I found this one with good review. I wasn't so sure , therefore I thought to go through couple of videos. And I completed the whole course because it was really a good one. I feel this course is quiet good and for beginners , its best. I would recommend to do couple of videos and you will know why I say so .

This course is perfect if you have zero to little experience on the overall basic programming paradigm. It contains simple but insightful exercises which will help you to understand concepts (from variable declaration to loops) with ease (the teacher is great). If you are fairly used to dealing with programming and you need something challenging, then this course could seem too much easy and familiar, but helpful anyway.

Charles is an excellent tutor. His tutorials insists that you, as someone who is taking baby steps in programming, to not take shortcuts and develop your command of the language akin to someone learning composition in elementary school. Makes you comfortable with the syntax, gets your confidence running, and then introduce the complex stuff.

He's a tutor that doesn't make your programming experience mundane. Recommended.

Absolutely amazing. The flow of Professor Charles Severance is super easy to understand and follow. Super appreciation to the University of Michigan and Prof. Chuck for creating this.

A suggestion- Maybe a few un graded sample problems may be added after every week. These may be kept a bit tricky and have a time limit of say, 3-4 hours to solve, after which the solved code is shown. That will immensely help for practice

This course is literally for everybody who wants to learn programming and does not know where to start from. For me this is the first step to enter the realm of data science as this course enabled me to learn python programming from scratch. It also helped me revise the most basic programming principles. I highly recommend this course to all the beginners and to all who want to learn this amazing programming language.

This course is very helpful for those guys who start the python as their first language. Also if you are at the beginner level or you didn't know about python then this course is very helpful for you. I myself complete this course and also recommend you guys to enrolled for this course.

and at last I am very thankful to coursera for providing this course. And also i am very thankful to Charles Russell Severance Thank you

Dr. chuck is able to deliver this course in a very organised way and in very short videos that makes the learning very easy and enjoyable. Course is very nice and can easily be understood by a learner who doesn't have any prior knowledge of programming. It is easy to take notes while learning and assignments are like small hands-on project to make your concepts strong. Hence overall this course is worth taking. Thankyou

This was my first ever online course and it was a great experience indeed. I had never thought that an online course would be so much effective. I gained a plenty of knowledge through this course; thanks to Dr. Charles Severance for such a wonderful teaching. After completing this course, I have no fear towards programming. It was an fantastic experience overall and I will definitely recommend this course to my friends.

Este curso comprende los fundamentos básicos de la programación en Pyhton. El Profesor Charles Severance y su forma tan única de impartir el curso, hace que el aprendizaje se lleve de una manera tranquila y amena, lo cual es fundamenta para que haya una mayor comprensión de los temas impartidos en el curso. Por lo anterior, agradezco la oportunidad brindada la cual fue indispensable para poder finalizar este gran curso.

For students like me who have no prior experience in programming, this course is definite a great introduction! The professor introduced each statement in an explicit way that explained the 'background thinking' of Python, which is very helpful when you try to understand how Python work. Also, discussion forum is a quite good resource as well, especially when I was dealing with assignments. Highly reommend this course!

I really enjoyed this course ; something that could have been complicated and maybe even boring became quite fun to learn thanks to an excellent teacher! For people whose first language is NOT english : even if you don't choose to put the subtitles -or your language isn't in the list-, the english used is easy enough to understand, I didn't have any problems with it even when I was really tired. Good luck and thank you!

Como alguien que ya tiene experiencia programando con un lenguaje mas estructurado como lo es JAVA y que también posee conocimientos intermedios como los son el manejo de las estructuras de datos y demás, este curso fue muy bueno para repasar las bases de la programación. Aprender python en este curso resulto muy ameno e interesante, si eres alguien con experiencia en menos de 1 día se completa muy satisfactoriamente.

Great course!

Note onThe Assignment 5.2 prompted me saying I should calculate the minimum and maximum (which I have been doing all along, the real issue was that I have been using a fixed flag value and not a None value for the variables. This has been quite misleading and frustrating. Would be great if people could be better pointed towards what is wrong (a note on using None instead of a fixed flag value might help).

The course was easy to understand for people with no prior programming experience and was well designed for distance learning. Dr. Charles has a fun way of explaining the dry concepts and the bonus videos really helped me in understanding the bigger picture for doing this course. I initially planned to attend this course twice a week but found myself making time for it every day of the week.

Great stuff and thank you !

I took the whole specialization which I strongly recommend over individual pieces. These courses go through a book provided by Charles Severance. He includes all the material and TONS of code he made. Charles goes through all the code he brings up in the class and explains each piece. There are fluff pieces throughout that are not necessary to pass but offer some history. Overall a great course with a great instructor.

The course was really well presented, taught and clear, and although i would prefer it would have been taught in the newer version of python, it actually helped me to do some research and learn new material.

A warm special thanks to Prof. Charles Severance for his logical and laid back approach.

I hope that a follow up to some more advanced programming in Python will take place in the future.

Many thanks Ricardo Fernandes

I really enjoy the videos describing the history of the language. The exercises were very good and the 'Office Hours' videos were lots of fun. Its really great to see how many people are interested in Python all around the world. These all provided a good foundation. I also thought it was great to be able to do the exercises and programming problems at any time. I look forward to the second course in this series.