This course introduces the basics of Python 3, including conditional execution and iteration as control structures, and strings and lists as data structures. You'll program an on-screen Turtle to draw pretty pictures. You'll also learn to draw reference diagrams as a way to reason about program executions, which will help to build up your debugging skills. The course has no prerequisites. It will cover Chapters 1-9 of the textbook "Fundamentals of Python Programming," which is the accompanying text (optional and free) for this course.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
12 hours to complete
General Introduction
In week one you will be introduced to programming in python through lectures and the Runestone textbook - an interactive online textbook built for this course. By the end of the module, you will have run your first python program, and learned how to draw images by writing a program.
12 hours to complete
27 videos (Total 172 min), 31 readings, 6 quizzes
8 hours to complete
Sequences and Iteration
In week two you will use the lectures and the Runestone textbook to understand the basics of a few python data types - lists, strings, tuples - as well as a control structure - for loops. By the end of this week, you will be able to write more complex programs that create drawings by incorporating for loops. Finally, we will present the basics of an accumulation pattern to you, which will be expanded on in each week for the rest of the course.
8 hours to complete
15 videos (Total 88 min), 23 readings, 4 quizzes
5 hours to complete
Booleans and Conditionals
In week three you will learn a new python data type - the boolean - as well as another control structure - conditional execution. Through the use of video lectures and the Runestone textbook, you will learn what Binary, Unary, Nested, and Chained Conditionals are, as well as how to incorporate conditionals within an accumulation pattern.
5 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 61 min), 12 readings, 3 quizzes
10 hours to complete
Sequence Mutation and Accumulation Patterns
In week four we will present deeper knowledge on using lists, strings, and python objects in general. We will also cover how to use the accumulation pattern with lists and with strings. The final assignment will test your knowledge and skills through application, much like previous assessments and assignments did, though with a more difficult set of tasks now that you have learned the basics.
10 hours to complete
22 videos (Total 92 min), 16 readings, 6 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM PYTHON BASICS
by KDSep 14, 2019
This is best introductory programming course in python. Mentors are planting every concept in our head in very fluent ways. You must take take this course as a begineer python programmer like me.
by IZJul 13, 2019
Didn't expected this course to be beginner friendly as many courses out there aren't.
This course really helped me improve my Python. From lectures to assignments everything was praise worthy.
by NLApr 5, 2020
Overall a good course but not as thorough as I'd hoped. I do not consider myself as understanding Python3 very well but it's a good introductory course to learning what code is and how it runs.
by PPNov 6, 2020
Nice, Happy after learning some basics.
The teachers were awesome, they built this course nicely so everyone can understand so smoothly.
I can say , I understand all those things better :)
About the Python 3 Programming Specialization
This specialization teaches the fundamentals of programming in Python 3. We will begin at the beginning, with variables, conditionals, and loops, and get to some intermediate material like keyword parameters, list comprehensions, lambda expressions, and class inheritance.
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