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.

As someone who studied programming at college, I was very confused with the control statements and indentation in Python. Not only did professor Chuck cleared those misunderstandings I suffered of, but he also taught me new stuff! thanks! I recommend this course for anyone; beginner or someone who has played with programming before. It will be helpful.

Absolutely love this course. If you got no idea about programming, Python, how does computers work while coding a program and youre interested in it, this is your place to be. Proffesor Charles showed off in teaching all of this and more. Thanks to proffesor Charles, U. of Michigan and Coursera for the opportunity to study this important topic nowdays.

For any one familiar with R and wants to get to know about Python, this is right the course you want to go for. Dr. Chuck's lecturing style is really inspiring, humorous, and helpful. I am planning to finish everything in this 5-course specialization, and this first course definitely gives you a good start in mastering this wonderful language. Thanks!

Apart from developing a profound cognizance of the fundamentals of programming with Python, you also get a chance to discover the marvellous practical applications of programming and other technologies through interactive video interviews of various experts working in related fields, available at the end of each week, which is very inspiring to watch!

Extremely beginner friendly and intuitive enough for a layman like myself to understand but challenging enough that I have to sometimes stop and pause and think a little deeper to internalise and process some of the ideas more carefully. Would 10/10 recommend to anyone who's interested in getting a taste of programming but doesn't know where to begin.

It's a great course, specially if you have never code before. The professor will teach you not only about the language it self, but about programming and how computers works in general. Besides that, there is some videos (not requirement) that shows interviews with some computer scientists and tell they history. It was a great course!! Recomend a lot!

I took this course in order to allow me to help my 14 year old son who is learning Python at school. I loved the short videos, the worked examples and the ease with which I could install the Atom editor and Python3 on my iMac. Once started I couldn't stop and I completed the course in 2 days. If you want to learn Python, this is a great route to take.

The course is well structured to start with basic of python. Lot of motivating videos and experience of different person makes the course more attractive for student like me. But in Indian Currency course fee and certification is very high. Please adjust according to the currency of the country. We as a student unable to pay this much amount of money.

This was my first time learning computer programming. I think the course is very friendly and clear. I liked the fact I could go to my own pace. Videos and book are very useful. I had learned the basis for python and I am very encourage to learn more in depth this language. Thank you very much to all the people behind this course. I really enjoyed it.

I thoroughly enjoyed listen to professor Severance's lectures, it made learning the first basics of python less daunting to someone with zero background in programming like me; solving the course assignments gave me a sense of achievement, even though I know real programming takes much much more than this; I feel motivated to start the second course:)

One of the interesting and most fruitful course for the student who want to know python from beginning .In this course our sir has taught from the basics of the python programming language and I enjoy the course and done all the assignments and exercise. And I am very thankful to Coursera platform to give me such an opportunity to learn this course.

I have really got to learn a lot from this course. I really enjoyed this. The assignments have good standard that are well planned. They make good applications of whatever has been taught. The course helped me in getting the basics , which is why this course is designed. Moreover, I would like to thank to Dr. Chuck for giving such brief explanations.

I have previously taken python courses at my university but this was the best course so far! Prof. is an amazing teacher and he keeps you engrossed in the content throughout the course.

Course content is explained extremly well. Little things that one can ignore while coding are mentioned as well.

All in all, a great course to start from somewhere

This was a very immersive and interesting course.

The course gave great ideas to do just that.One of the best short courses on moving to online teaching ever: full of practical exercises, tips and ideas. I have learnt so much and I have enjoyed doing all the learning too.

I am grateful to have the chance to participate in an online course like this!

It was a great way to start learning programming without any prior knowledge. I would have had no idea what anything meant a few weeks ago, but thanks to the amazing instructor, it was made possible! My only complaint is that the worked out solution videos aren't the assignments you get from the class. Highly recommend, the lectures are so well done.

Feeling good after getting introduced to python because it was taught very well. This course surely have given time to basics a lot. And I very much like the way of elaborating the program how it is working in all part and the flow chart or block style. and how to use python app save a file etc and using command prompt these parts are well explained.

Excellent course for beginners. The overall syllabus is so organized and availability of hands on exercises , quizzes and assignments are a great help to improve the performance. The instructor (Charles Severance) is awesome. Thank you coursera for such a wonderful beginners course on Python and also thanks to Guido Van Rossum for his great creation.