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About the Course

This two-part course is designed to help students with very little or no computing background learn the basics of building simple interactive applications. Our language of choice, Python, is an easy-to learn, high-level computer language that is used in many of the computational courses offered on Coursera. To make learning Python easy, we have developed a new browser-based programming environment that makes developing interactive applications in Python simple. These applications will involve windows whose contents are graphical and respond to buttons, the keyboard and the mouse. In part 1 of this course, we will introduce the basic elements of programming (such as expressions, conditionals, and functions) and then use these elements to create simple interactive applications such as a digital stopwatch. Part 1 of this class will culminate in building a version of the classic arcade game "Pong"....

Top reviews

MP

May 28, 2017

The best python course i ever had thanks to the teachers therereally awesome, and the classes are very pleasant. if your aout there trying to start with programming, i definitely recommend this course

CD

Jul 12, 2017

It was nice beginner course for the new programming to learn programming and practice the concepts with most intuitive way, the way is to build a game and that interests anyone who takes this course.

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By 091_Indraditya B

Feb 3, 2022

helpful course

By Tamira G

Mar 18, 2018

Fun approach!

By GUMMALA J S S

Jun 11, 2020

Nice course

By Akhilesh G

Jul 4, 2017

Good course

By Samruddhi K

Jun 10, 2020

It's Good.

By Kiran K K

Mar 31, 2017

Excellent!

By Satyam S

Jun 8, 2016

Great!!

By AMIRAH S A

Feb 2, 2023

Good

By WONDEMU T

Sep 19, 2018

Nice

By naveen k

Jul 1, 2016

none

By Santhosh C

Jun 21, 2020

Good course. I became fluent with solving simple coding problems. Course content is good and lot's of problems to gain practice. Dont agree with grading policy. I feel I was treated unfairly. My code for Pong works perfectly on my computer but I received feedback saying some parts of it do not work and I lost points. I was also trolled by one person who gave me zero points for my mini-project.

By ANNE M

Jun 2, 2019

This is a very frustrating class. the lectures are great, and it's fun doing the examples and projects. The quiz/tests on the other hand are awful. example week 4. in no lecture have we discussed time.time or the epoch. I found it, but the point is, you are not testing the students on what they are being taught! I'm very disappointed in this.

By Matteo P

Apr 12, 2019

Very good approach...Maybe to much mathematics things on programming language. I would prefer some cases and algorithms referring to "normal life". and... I don't agree 100% with the choice to use only codeskulptor. in particularly program graphic interface I would prefer to use standard graphic python library.

By John f

Mar 11, 2019

This is a beginner level course. that being said i came to this course as a true beginner programmer. I picked up the subject matter well enough but felt like some of the lectures glossed over some subjects and there was not enough practice work to become truly proficient with all the subjects.

By Chris

Aug 20, 2020

Good overall. Some of the levity from the instructors was a little distracting. I had some difficulty getting a peer-review project graded in Week 4. The course helped me understand the basics of using modules to write GUIs into python programs.

By Deleted A

Jun 27, 2020

not appropriate with the beginners, because it doesn't cover all the details and all the fundamentals. It just gives you the important things

By Daniela N A

Jul 15, 2019

We should have learned about oop first before doing GUI stuff, but I guess they thought otherwise :(

By Asad J

Nov 7, 2019

The audio quality of the instructors is poor and hard to understand.

By RISHIKA D

Jan 5, 2022

it was a great experience

By Vivaswan S

Mar 13, 2020

Out-Dated Course

By SAYAN S

Jan 23, 2022

good

By Engy K T

Sep 6, 2021

By Saman S

Apr 13, 2023

Unfortunately, the course uses outdated methods for teaching Python, as well as using an outdated version of Python (python2) syntaxes. The exam questions usually have several right answers which makes it a bit annoying, and you can still fail even with a fair amount of correct answers. As I mentioned, the methods are outdated, and the videos are so long. The basic concepts could have been explained very shorter, making them more engaging.

Overall, I appreciate the structure of the course, and the projects are really exciting.

By Cryptorious G

Jan 25, 2024

Outdated course. Needs to be brought up to speed and teaching python 3 rather than the early days of python 2. this course is outdated by at least 10+ yrs. I am sure the majority of the foundations are accurate with nuances here and there but folks expect up to date information when learning for a job in todays computer fields....its like being taught how to chisel a rock wheel for the flintstone car vs learning to utilize the rubber ones for the cars of today. I am not gonna pay to be taught old out of date material

By Ravi s

Apr 19, 2023

not enough explanation done by the course instructors ,they jump to high level without teaching the logic or the algorithmic logic behind it, would take a good 3 months to finish course instead of a month