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About this course

This course provides an introduction to programming and the Python language. Students are introduced to core programming concepts like data structures, conditionals, loops, variables, and functions. This course includes an overview of the various tools available for writing and running Python, and gets students coding quickly. It also provides hands-on coding exercises using commonly used data structures, writing custom functions, and reading and writing to files. This course may be more robust than some other introductory python courses, as it delves deeper into certain essential programming topics.

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4.0Reviewed May 16, 2023

It's just the beginning.For those who are also interested in programming, in my opinion, CS50 is also a good choice for learning the intro.HW3 and HW4 are pretty funny too.

5.0Reviewed Aug 9, 2022

Although the homework gets difficult, it is progressive and is manageable is we spend enough time on it.highly recommending this class to people like me with no coding expereience!

5.0Reviewed Apr 14, 2024

I really enjoyed this course. It was well paced and covered the basics nicely. The practice exercises were hard, but made sure you learned all the key concepts.

4.0Reviewed Jul 20, 2025

The Course and the instructor is good but the Lab and Assignment should be reworked, the jupyter notebook sometimes doesn't show submit option or doesn't respond or run the code block at all.

5.0Reviewed Nov 25, 2021

Very helpful for beginners to get hands-on experience.Most assessments are challenging for people without coding background but incorporate most key concepts!

4.0Reviewed May 15, 2021

Final assignment on creating own bank is interesting and practical. Wish that the assignment explained things better though I managed to figure things out after struggling with it a little bit.

5.0Reviewed Apr 9, 2021

Well conducted course for a beginner in programming. Appreciate the content and Hands on exercises. It has definitely helped come to grips with a growing programming language.

5.0Reviewed Feb 11, 2021

I can't wait to enroll for the 100% online master at Penn U. The instructor in this course has shown a great value of this introduction to python programming.

5.0Reviewed Aug 25, 2022

The course was extremely entertaining and informative. The concepts and code files were great. Discussions and helps on the homework were provided in a great manner. Recommend the course.

4.0Reviewed Jun 9, 2021

Clarity in some of the assignment questions needed. As someone with prior experience, the assignments were quite straightforward, but i was stumped by the lack of clarity.

4.0Reviewed May 30, 2021

The course has intensive content which requires students to fully understand the previous sections in order to go to the next one. It also provides sound knowledge on the content that you learn.

4.0Reviewed Jul 19, 2023

I am happy to say thanks to the tutor and coursera platform for providing this opportunity. Personally i feel about the course is that assignments are quite difficult for beginners. Thank you