Excellent Teaching brilliant instructor although i felt if worked solutions to the assignments or if similar questions with answers were to be provided it would have been much easier. The resources provided are extremely useful while doing the assignment.

This is the second best MOOC I have ever completed (the best was https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn, because it taught me how to learn). This course is short, engaging, and most importantly, thoroughly explains the basics of programming.

I had been struggling and trying to find a way to self-learn Python for months until I came across this course, and in a week I saw light at the end of the tunnel. Charles Severance explains everything in a clear and simple way, and ihe even makes it fun.

Very accessible primer on python - even good to work your way through quickly if you already have other programming experience and want the basics of the syntax to come easily. Learned some other interesting tidbits along the way, too. Highly recommended!

Fantastic introduction into programming. No early jumping into arrays but rather how to structure code properly. Well designed curriculum where old exercises are used again and amended to grow with the skill set of the learner. Very entertaining lecturer.

Dr. Severence is highly gifted as a teacher. To make a complex world of programming easy to understand for the likes of me, it takes one that is thoroughly proficient in the subject and dedicated to teaching. I will continue these courses. Thank you, doc!

I have taken this course before. It is my third challenge.

I could pass all the assignments now.

I feel like I get something from this course and I really appreciate all the Coursera staffs and Dr.chuck for helping me to pass this course.

thank you

jongchan

Excellent course. Have lot of examples and the clases are very clear. The book that is given with the course explain in detail the topics of every week and add additional details.

The forum is also an excelent tool to debate and learn from and with others.

Great course. I had previous knowledge of Python, so I found it a bit slow at times, but I can't fault the course for that. I expect anyone seeing this stuff for the first time (especially if they aren't very math oriented) will appreciate the slower pace

Well built, seriously oriented for someone who never had any contact with programming before.

Perhaps, some more advanced optional assignments could be added for those who know how to write code, but in different languages, at beginner's level.

GREAT WORK!

Great for beginners and advanced! If you have prior programming experience, you will breeze through, but do not skip any video because you'll learn Python syntax and semantics. I recommend going to the PY4E course website to do extra exercises. Have fun!

It is a great course for absolute beginners. Dr. Charles Severance's teaching style is excellent. Everything is broken down in a simple form, making it easy to understand. Extremely helpful for rapidly and effectively learning the fundamentals of Python.

This is the just beginning of my computer stuff journey. I think I can do more and gain more in the next step. I love the teaching style of Dr. Severance. I hope I can meet him in person in the future. I love Pyhton and so much honor to be a Pythonistas.

I wish I had teachers like Dr. Chuck when I was in University. Funny, engaging, passionate and rich in knowledge. Makes a difficult topic (learn to programming) something aproachable and somewhat easy. Very good introduction lesson to python programming.

Actually this is really what was promised by Coursera. There is a basic information and some light code tasks for beginners who encounter Python for the first time ever. I was so excited about this course as it has the general introduction to Python! 5/5

One of the best ways to teach Python is by allowing your students to feel like you are teaching one-on-one with just them. Professor Mike nails that point on the head. Loved the class, and I'm definitely looking forward to part 2 of this Specialization!

Awesome course , I will be happy if the course is somehow available in pdfs. I want to thank Coursera a million times for allowing students like us to study this high standards courses who do not have any way to study like this in their places.

THANK YOU.

Very clear and accessible. I often had to think about the tasks and it's great because that's how the material is better absorbed. The teacher is the best, with humor. Thank you very much! With you, the introduction to the python was fun and interesting.

According to me, this course is best to start learning journey of python. I have learned basics of python. This course cover variable, constants, conditional statement, loop statement, loop control statement, function and etc a lot concepts about python.

I really like this course. The course is clear and easy to understand. Thanks Mr. Severance.

This is my first course in English language, and I can all understand, which makes me really happy and gives me a lot of confidence. I will continue study python!

sir truely speaking to get started with any programming language

this is a must go course for all

as it not just explain about the programming but also encourage us that why we need to do programming

I enjoyed alot and going for further course

thank you

This is an amazing course for beginners. Even if someone doesn't have any prior experience in programming languages, he/she can easily understand the basic concepts by completing this course. Dr. Charles Severence and his team have done an excellent job.

Dr. Charles is a wonderful and helpful instructor. Even though I have a long way to go, doing this program placed me in the right step. I learned so much in a short amount of time. I highly recommend this course to anyone, who wants to start programming!

Excellent introduction and Charles did a really nice job taking his time to explain the "why" behind each component. I enjoyed this, as well as found it challenging and actually fun to want to continue and try and try again, until I finally got it right!

Highly recommend this course for beginner even with no programming backgrounds! Professor Charles is amazing and explains things very well! Love this class and will definitely take the rest of four！ Hope I can be good at programming after the 5 sessions!