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.
This course is part of the Python 3 Programming Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
General Introduction
Sequences and Iteration
Booleans and Conditionals
Sequence Mutation and Accumulation Patterns
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TOP REVIEWS FROM PYTHON BASICS
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 :)
It was really a fantastic course, my first ever online course. I enjoyed taking this course and have learned almost all the basic concepts of Python. The lectures were so good through the course.
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 beginner python programmer like me
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.
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