This two-part course is designed to help students with very little or no computing background learn the basics of building simple interactive applications. Our language of choice, Python, is an easy-to learn, high-level computer language that is used in many of the computational courses offered on Coursera. To make learning Python easy, we have developed a new browser-based programming environment that makes developing interactive applications in Python simple. These applications will involve windows whose contents are graphical and respond to buttons, the keyboard and the mouse.
This course is part of the Fundamentals of Computing Specialization
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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Skills you will gain
- Programming Principles
- Python Syntax And Semantics
- Computer Programming
- Python Programming
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Course 1 of 7 in the
Approx. 19 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Offered by
Rice University
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Week 0 - Statements, expressions, variables
Understand the structure of this class, explore Python as a calculator
3 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 71 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Week 1 - Functions, logic, conditionals
Learn the basic constructs of Python programming, create a program that plays a variant of Rock-Paper-Scissors
4 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 98 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Week 2 - Event-driven programming, local/global variables
Learn the basics of event-driven programming, understand difference between local and global variables, create an interactive program that plays a simple guessing game
4 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 83 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Week 3 - Canvas, drawing, timers
Create a canvas in Python, learn how to draw on the canvas, create a digital stopwatch
4 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 71 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes
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- 5 stars86.41%
- 4 stars9.99%
- 3 stars2.14%
- 2 stars0.31%
- 1 star1.13%
TOP REVIEWS FROM AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON (PART 1)
by VMJul 9, 2018
Great start course! The learning curve gets a bit steep for people with no prior knowledge after the first few weeks, but the teachers keep the class interesting and the exercises are great practice.
by FTMar 2, 2021
The course is really practical and you learn Python playing the games you develop, It is such a great course for those who already know how to code and want to know more about Python syntax.
by MMOct 3, 2017
This was a fun and convenient course, and it was a great start to learning programming for me. There must have been lots of thought and talent put into it to make it that way.
Thank you!
by YYDec 10, 2016
like it.
like the mini project a lot. it really helps you build up what you have learned and put it into practice. and also it benefits a lot from examine other peers assignment.
About the Fundamentals of Computing Specialization
This Specialization covers much of the material that first-year Computer Science students take at Rice University, brought to you by the world-class Faculty who teach our master's and PhD programs. Students learn sophisticated programming skills in Python from the ground up and apply these skills in building more than 20 fun projects. The Specialization concludes with a Capstone exam that allows the students to demonstrate the range of knowledge that they have acquired in the Specialization.
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