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About the Course

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. The course is for you if you're a newcomer to Python programming, if you need a refresher on Python basics, or if you may have had some exposure to Python programming but want a more in-depth exposition and vocabulary for describing and reasoning about programs. This is the first of five courses in the Python 3 Programming Specialization....

Top reviews

DK

Dec 7, 2020

The course was very comprehensive and easy to understand. The instructors made sure that they are giving the information in a way that won't make me confused. Thank you so much for this great course!

NR

Oct 17, 2019

It's a must join course for the people who want to deep dive into the world of Python. I really loving this course very much. I wanna explore more hence opting for other parts of this specialization.

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By Sayan M

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Aug 5, 2020

Great for beginners, or for anyone looking for a refresher. The runstone interactive makes sure you get through the concepts by actually coding the code. Great Initiative!!!

By nandu v

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May 2, 2020

This has been a great introductory course to Python. The fact that instructors touched all the basic concepts without overwhelming the learners is particularly commendable.

By Samiha I

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Apr 15, 2020

This is a great course, especially for beginners who have no previous experience with python or programming. It is a fun and effective way for learning the basics of python.

By Krasimir K

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May 12, 2019

Great course, Great instructors and great structure. Would highly recommend to anyone who is just starting out with basics or just wants to brush up their current knowledge.

By Tülün E

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Nov 27, 2023

You can only move on, if you solve the problems. Really nice way of learning. However it is not always clear how to solve the problem, so sometimes you are stuck for ages.

By David C

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Mar 14, 2020

Overall well structures and helpful. Good review for someone with some basic knowledge but also good for people with no background. Can go at the pace that works for you.

By Sai V

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Feb 22, 2020

Very simple yet elegant introduction to the basics of python. Thoroughly enjoyed the course, would recommend it to everyone who's looking to get into learning the language.

By Myles D

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Jul 27, 2023

A perfect introduction for anyone looking to learn and understand python!!! Thank you to all the professors as well as the University of Michigan for making this possible.

By MACHUNURU S R

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May 6, 2021

very useful course ..and encouraging tasks makes me concentrate and think a lot ..i got self confidence of solving any question..thanks to coursera and michigan university

By Me

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Apr 25, 2021

Great course for learning and understanding how Python 3 works in it's core. This course gives you full understanding of Python's logic so you can write good, simple code.

By Nitish T

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Mar 8, 2021

This course helps me a lot to enhance my coding skills in python programming. This course provides several module in python where you can build your projects using python.

By Apoorva J

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Mar 30, 2020

As a beginner to computer programming, Python Basics Course was rightly paced and easy to understand with the Runestone textbook being very helpful for practice exercises!

By Fei M S M

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Jul 20, 2022

Great course with excellent explanation of concepts. I had learnt python "by doing" and this course added value in explaining and providing relevant backgroung knowledge.

By Глеб Е

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Jul 24, 2020

This course was for me a big step on my path to AI mastery. I think there was an adequate amount of practice and theory what were the great basement for further learning.

By Rohith K K

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May 11, 2020

The runestone textbook and the coding environment has helped me so much in learning Python. Kudos to the creators for helping the students learn in the best way possible.

By Ashirvad S

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Apr 11, 2022

This is a very good course for anyone who's new to python. Course material and insturctors explains everything in a very good way. It helped me a lot in learning python.

By Pavan P M

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Jul 31, 2020

This course is very helpfull for the phyton learners at beginning level.lecture vedios & reading material is very helpfull & easy understand.i really enjoyed the course.

By Maria d C S F

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Jul 22, 2020

Excente curso, esta muy bien organizado, es fácil de entender y los ejercicios te ayudan a entender las sentencias y la lógica de las diferentes estructuras del programa

By Habtamu S

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Jun 16, 2020

This was an interesting course. I have taken python course before, but this digs deeper and allowed me to understand the reason why the python code acts the way it does.

By Davies T

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Jan 31, 2020

Well taught and explained course

Runestone and Codelens are wonderful tools and well integrated into the learning environment

A great way to learn any programming language

By Mike C

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May 17, 2019

Very solid. I especially like the online textbook with the interactive problems. The lectures and the textbook covered the same material so I don't think you need both.

By A N

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Sep 2, 2024

Excellent introduction to Python 3 that covers the basics well, highlighting some common "gotchas" and providing plenty of hands-on practice with small coding problems.

By ear7698

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Jul 23, 2023

I thought this course

was well designed, and had a good amount

of practice

material. I thought

the pacing was appropriate

and it reinforced concepts well with examples.

By SODIQ O

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Oct 3, 2021

This is one of the best platforms to learn basics in python programming. I give thanks to coursera admins and University of Michigan for this great opportunity. Thanks.

By Brian U M F

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Jul 2, 2021

It is a great introduction for Python in particular and programming in general. Although you will feel it a bit of slow if you know another programming language before.