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.
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)
This course is part of Fundamentals of Computing Specialization
Instructors: John Greiner
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There are 5 modules in this course
Understand the structure of this class, explore Python as a calculator
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6 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review
Learn the basic constructs of Python programming, create a program that plays a variant of Rock-Paper-Scissors
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7 videos5 readings1 assignment1 peer review
Learn the basics of event-driven programming, understand difference between local and global variables, create an interactive program that plays a simple guessing game
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8 videos5 readings2 assignments1 peer review
Create a canvas in Python, learn how to draw on the canvas, create a digital stopwatch
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7 videos4 readings2 assignments1 peer review
Learn the basics of lists in Python, model moving objects in Python, recreate the classic arcade game "Pong"
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8 videos4 readings2 assignments1 peer review
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MM
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This was a fun and convenient course, and it was a great start to learning programming for me. There must have been lots of thought and talent put into it to make it that way.
AH
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Reviewed on Oct 21, 2018
This course its a little hard walk through in the programing basic concepts, although the concepts are very funny to learn they lead to a deep understanding of programming essentials
VM
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Reviewed on Jul 9, 2018
Great start course! The learning curve gets a bit steep for people with no prior knowledge after the first few weeks, but the teachers keep the class interesting and the exercises are great practice.
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