Thank you so much Sir. I've never attended such an amazing course. Your approach is totally different. Everything is clear and friendly to even those who have never studied. In addition, the forum discussion was very helpful as it enabled me to enhance my knowledge about the course and to interact with worldwide students. I strongly recommend this course

Great course for beginners. One can easily do it if he/she doesn't have a programming background. The instructor is good and explains well.

The only thing in my opinion which can be improved is instead of teaching from slides, the instructor should write the programs on his PC and share the screen recording and explain form there.

Overall great experience.

A very excellent learning experience from someone that has zero knowledge in computer science but with a curious mind to learn more about it. Teaching staffs were very quick in answering my queries and gave me more insight and knowledge in the world of computer science. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about programming.

I really enjoyed Professor Severance's personable and engaging way of explaining what could have been a dry topic. This is actually not the first time I've tried to learn Python, but it is the first time I have stuck with a class all the way through without giving up or losing interest, because of the well-structured and engaging class! Thank you to UMSI.

I am very much happy how Professor Charles has taught us Fundamentals of Python which will lay a strong foundation in Programming aspect. I will recommend this course to each person who wants to start their career as a programmer.!! Thank you Coursera and Professor for giving us this opportunity to learn from you. With lots of love from India

- Alok Kumar

Nice course for beginners. Really basic stuff for someone who wants to introduce hinself to programming.

May be helpful if you have an experience in other languages and want to switch to Python. The first part of specialization can be finished in about 9-10 hours and things get really interesting in the second part "Python data structures"

Highly recommend!

As an introduction, this course was awesome!

This course has the content for someone who wants to learn basic things about python. The first few videos, where the instructor shows some programs, could scare someone starting the course. It is important to continue the course and pay attention on how variables and data types are used.

Thanks for the course!

I've taken some basic coding courses before, but never really felt like it was interesting. Charles Russell Severance is such a great teacher that after I watched one video of him teaching, I couldn't stop and just kept going and completed the course. Thank you very much for the efforts you put into the course and making it much more interesting to learn

PY4E is an extremely helpful course. Prof. Severance's teaching is professional and clear. This course is a cure for a starter like me to feel less intimidated in front of an unknown subject（I majored in English translation and before taking this course I have no experience in computer science）. Bonus videos are also helpful. ありがとうございます

It is a very good course. It gives me basic knowledge of Python Programming. All basic knowledges in Python was taught by a clear, simple way so that I was able to understand allmost of them. After this course, I can learn more higher course related to Python Programming and I can do some projects which used Python as their required Programming language.

A must for beginners in programming languages. The instructor engages as if you are sitting one to one and the overall experience is very. The instructor has left no stone unturned to make this course as interesting as possible. My only grudge is more assignments could have been included for more practise. Anyways that can be found in plenty on internet.

I knew absolutely nothing about programming. Followed a friend's suggestion and now I owe him a treat. I'm very very thankful that Coursera offers such higher level content. This will help many more like me every year not just students who are stuck with doing nothing during quarantine. I applaud their initiative. Long live Coursera, long live Dr. Chuck.

It is one of the best online course. I really loved it a lot and it helped me learn in better way. Far more better than my regular lectures at college which sometimes get me bored, but that's not the case here, instructor is makes it much more interesting.

Special thanks to COURSERA team who gave me an opportunity to learn from such an amazing instructor

Amazing course for beginners like me, who dreaded coding so much earlier. In the past, I took up python courses online, but somewhere lost the traction. Dr. Charles has been helpful in putting coding lessons in a simple and easy-to-correlate manner. I am grateful to Dr. Charles, Mihaela and other team members helping achieve my first coding certificate.

Este ha sido un excelente curso. El profesor Dr. Chuck es un magnífico profesor que siempre busca la manera de motivarte con sus clases. Python es un lenguage de programación que todos deberían conocer pues tiene mucho potencial para resolver muy variados problemas. Gracias a Coursera, la Universidad de Michigan y al Dr. Chuck por darme esta oportunidad.

wonderful course!! I absolutely enjoy every part of it, so much so that I am planning to continue the course with the specialization that has now become available with the same professor. His instruction and humor made learning not only memorable but fun. Thank you for opening my mind to a new and exciting world that I can't wait to explore more deeply!!

Better than most live classes, Getting Started with Python seemed like one of those boring, fully technical courses which would make me quit after a week. However, I was pleasantly surprised as the course material itself is easy and covers the very basics of Python3. I have some prior experience with C programming, so this course was easy enough for me.

I started by auditing the course (finances are tight these days ;)!). Found it very interesting, and hopefully useful for my future career development.

It is thorough and easy to understand, and I am enjoying the learning process, the pickles which I find myself into, whilst trying to solve the exercises, and both successes and defeats.

Highly recommended

I need to learn python as a beginner and I was searching online websites for it. Someone referred coursera to me and I enrolled in it. I think that was my best decision for an online course. A very user friendly website with no difficulty to use and a very experienced tutor who taught us this course. I am looking forward to take more courses on coursera

If you are a beginner with no prior programming experience you should definitely check out this course. The instructor does a great job of explaining the information in a way that anyone, regardless of background, can understand. I believe this course will provides you with a solid foundation and more importantly the confidence to keep learning Python.

Excelente curso de nivel inicial para programar en Python en particular, aunque muchos conceptos se pueden trasladar a cualquier lenguaje moderno de programación. Chuck es un maestro excelente, muy claro y didáctico en sus exposiciones. El curso pone además un libro gratuito a disposición al que se puede recurrir para profundizar los conceptos de clase.

I did have some background in C programming, but that was many years ago. So I chose this course to refresh my concepts. The professor is superb. He has a raw passion for coding in general, is patient, and really helped me understand every minute detail so far. The assignments (especially the last one) was sufficiently challenging to grasp the concepts.

If you haven't done anything with programming this course absolutely broaden your horizon. Course material is well designed. Even though the assignments of the courses are little bit challenging, it helps to understand the structure of the Python language. In addition, Charles Severance is a great person, he well managed to keep his students' attention.

Great course to start with if you are new to programming. Dr. Charles Severance introduces programming in a unique way which was entirely different of how i was taught during my college. His emphasis are more dependent on how the system thinks rather how we think. Although, its just minor shift teaching ideology but this has huge psychological benefits.

The textbook, lectures, and activities align really well. I felt like the coursework allowed me to have multiple repetitions with similar content so I was able to remember and apply new learning. Assignments were doable, but also posed some unique challenges, which I think helped me dive in and actually practice rather than spit out memorized content.