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About the 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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SB

Mar 27, 2021

Great explanations and lots of examples to follow on. The course built throughout so I had confidence in completing assignments though they were not easy. Great interaction in discussion forums.

AD

Aug 26, 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.

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By Nikita V M

Nov 9, 2022

Abysmally taught. Instructor only reads what is already being shown on slides, which is completely insufficient. While it was possibly to barely scrape by in basic lessons, once more complicated subjects began showing up, the lessons simply didn't explain concepts thoroughly enough. Examples provided were so basic they were utterly useless and inapplicable to the assignments, or some times completely misleading. Assignments contained blatant errors in identifying tags or in some cases such as quizzes, typos which changed the nature of the question entirely.

Subjects covered were interesting and engaging, but the teaching itself was among the worst I have experienced yet from a popular course on Coursera. Taking this specialization fully is viable only if one is willing to constantly be using outside resources to fill in the gaps left by the lessons.

By Steven P

May 6, 2022

The final project needs significant improvements in the clarity of the instructions and expectations. I was able to figure out a way through it but I spent the vast majority of my time trying to uderstand the instructions and expectations rather than building the code.

By Joshim U

May 9, 2025

Bailed out at Module 1 Homework 1b Practice Writing. It is not a beginner course. Starts slow but then goes up in difficulty. If you have previously dabbled a bit in any form of programming or python then would be easier to follow.

By Priscilla L

Aug 14, 2022

The course covers the topic at lightening speed and then gives you a far more advanced level of computer programming assignment.

By Sarthak R M

Nov 21, 2023

the last homework was i written the current code but the jupyter lab was having more problem please update this problem solution

By Jade O

Feb 10, 2022

This course was difficult to follow. The assignments were not intutitive and the platform was messy.

By Ruhma M

Apr 9, 2023

there is not enough detailed demonstration. the explanation would be more helpful

By Tony J A N B

Nov 29, 2024

légèrement rapide , et les vidéos n'expliquent pas très bien les cours

By Cesar A M C

Jan 5, 2024

The Python functions are not fully and clearly explained.

By Rebekah B

Apr 6, 2023

The instructions are utter crap and difficult to follow

By Randy

Jun 28, 2021

Moves way to fast.