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About the Course

This is the seventh course in the Google Cybersecurity Certificate. These courses will equip you with the skills you need to apply for an entry-level cybersecurity job. You’ll build on your understanding of the topics that were introduced in the sixth Google Cybersecurity Certificate course. In this course, you will be introduced to the Python programming language and apply it in a cybersecurity setting to automate tasks. You'll start by focusing on foundational Python programming concepts, including data types, variables, conditional statements, and iterative statements. You'll also learn to work with Python effectively by developing functions, using libraries and modules, and making your code readable. In addition, you'll work with string and list data, and learn how to import, parse and debug files. Google employees who currently work in cybersecurity will guide you through videos, provide hands-on activities and examples that simulate common cybersecurity tasks, and help you build your skills to prepare for jobs. Learners who complete this certificate will be equipped to apply for entry-level cybersecurity roles. No previous experience is necessary. By the end of this course, you will: - Explain how the Python programming language is used in cybersecurity. - Write conditional and iterative statements in Python. - Create new, user-defined Python functions. - Use Python to work with strings and lists. - Use regular expressions to extract information from text. - Use Python to open and read the contents of a file. - Identify best practices to improve code readability. - Practice debugging code....

Top reviews

SA

Aug 6, 2023

Outstanding content! Helped me immensely to refresh my knowledge of python and add to it. Plenty of hands-on labs and exercises. Great instructor. I thank Google and Coursera for this quality content.

DM

Jan 1, 2024

Teacher is very good, explained concepts very well i would love to learn more from this teacher, only thing which is missing in this course is setup of python in windows , Linux this needs to be add

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By Léo S

May 26, 2023

Really disliked the website for Python. Could have been better on another site or on a webapp.

By Frederick L

Apr 24, 2024

This one could be done a little better with the newbie in mind.

By Michael

Aug 28, 2023

the most difficult course so far, I have to repeat this one

By Justin L

Sep 20, 2023

I feel like the labs were hard to read/ operate

By Maureen O

Mar 14, 2024

Very Challenging, more intermediate level

By Craig E

Oct 17, 2023

Instructor was difficult to understand

By Ian G

Jul 24, 2023

it was great ! i love it !

By Abenezer G

Nov 5, 2023

Its Good for beginners

By Kelebogile N

Feb 7, 2024

hard

By Goktug E

Apr 22, 2024

2 stars for efforts but I don't think it was a good idea to show basics of Python like how to print strings and what is an if statement... to people who take automation of cybersecurity tasks using python... Big portion of this class is a basic programming class, Task 1: how to print and what do you see... Task 2: You can also add comments.. .What do you see when you run a comment... Task 3: Write the comment to say `# This cell displays "I am using Python."`. Be sure to replace the `# YOUR COMMENT HERE` with your own comment before running the following cell. I think they were too lazy to put relevant content... it was too boring. Is it really what google offer?

By Mary J

Feb 29, 2024

All the previous courses have been great and I was enjoying learning languages/code with ease, however this one was extremely hard for me to follow. The instructor is very knowledgeable however I had difficulty understanding him at certain points, frequently, and because of that would easily get lost. This really put a lot of doubt in my abilities. I ended up going to another site to practice python and it helped me (very quickly and much more thoroughly) understand the language in areas I was lacking with this course.

By Tao C

Mar 15, 2024

It was difficult to understand the presenter at times. Also, the material is much, much harder than any of the other courses. It starts easy but builds much too quickly without giving a chance to solidify fundamentals. Newcomers will without a doubt be overwhelmed and unable to progress.

By Paul B

Feb 9, 2024

This course needed more than 4 modules and maybe should have been longer in order to focus more on each individual lesson. I didn't get nearly as much out of it as I did the other courses in this program.

By Amna B

May 14, 2024

This was the hardest course out of the 8 courses. This course needs to be simplified. It has far too much information in it for a beginner. Also when the instructor gives an example, it's only given once and we are supposed to understand it. An example should be shown atleast 2-3 times for the watchers to grasp an understanding of how to write in Python. Explaining something once, just won't do it. I absolutely hated this course. It was too difficult for me. I enjoyed the courses 1-5 and 6 and 7 was information overload for me. I would rather learn Python on Youtube than this course.

By David M

Jun 23, 2023

I'm having an impossible time finishing the last 5 tasks for 'Creating Another Algorithm' in python and have no idea what to do. We're covering things WAY past what we were taught and there's no support / help option. I've been scouring the internet for answers and dying here. I come to google programs (this is my 4th) exactly because we're typically not left hanging and drowning like this. None of the rest of the program was like this and hate it. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, how to find out, how to fix it and how to finish... totally lost and miserable.

By Dan H

Apr 23, 2024

If I could give zero starts to the entire cybersecurity course, I would. I absolutely hate it. The course does not explain anything to make it understandable to "just anyone" as they claim in these stupid testimonial videos. This course expects me to look things up on Google? What the fuck am I paying $50/month for then if I can just learn it all from YouTube or Google (YouTube being way better at explaining content than any fucking thing on this course.) What a waste of time and money. Please do better. Much better.

By Emmanuel U

Apr 2, 2024

I'm facing some technical issues in regards to Taking my course assessment. The options to the questions are not given in most cases only one option will be given and if it's the wrong answer I will still fail the assessment. Please I need help Thanks

By Kristi F

Jan 18, 2024

This has to be one of the most difficult parts to learn for cyber security and not being able to understand the host makes it so much more difficult.

By Deric W

Jun 14, 2023

I've finished this course and I keep getting more work. I don't understand.

By Phattanan T

Dec 13, 2023

Too deep for who have no experience.

By Charles W

Jan 21, 2024

Extremely difficult.