Have you ever wished you knew how to program, but had no idea where to start from? This course will teach you how to program in Scratch, an easy to use visual programming language. More importantly, it will introduce you to the fundamental principles of computing and it will help you think like a software engineer.
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Code Yourself! An Introduction to Programming
The University of EdinburghAbout this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessSkills you will gain
- Computer Programming
- Algorithms
- Programming Language
- Scratch (Programming Language)
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Try Coursera for BusinessSyllabus - What you will learn from this course
Your First Computer Program
Code Gone Loopy!
Remixing Games
Reusing Your Code
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- 5 stars80.44%
- 4 stars14.79%
- 3 stars2.17%
- 2 stars0.83%
- 1 star1.75%
TOP REVIEWS FROM CODE YOURSELF! AN INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING
This course is a great way for the beginning program to get started. It is a fast, easy to understand explanation of Scratch. Great lectures with clear instruction. I really enjoyed this class.
It was Awesome as well as very interesting too . It helped me in Increasing my work effectiveness and made me even more active towards my work . I would totally recommend this course to everyone !!
A good introductory course to programming using Scratch, which teach you about the concept in programming. It's interesting and statisfying to be able to make your own animation/simple game.
Very fun and engaging course. Allows you to interact with your peers and gain valuable feedback. The interviews were also very useful as they showed how concepts could be utilized in other fields.
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