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Great introduction to the language. I am currently a software engineer and I work mostly in python. If I was just starting out, I feel like I would have a good grasp of the basics.
Paul Hampton
United States
Learn to Code in Python
Coming from zero coding experience, I've made significant progress and plan to revisit past material regularly to reinforce good habits.
KC Clontz IV
United States
Learn to Code in Python
fun ;)
Paul Vinueza
Orlando, United States
Learn SQL
I loved this course. I love there was not a ton of videos explaining simple concepts. Additionally, the ability to ask boots questions is super helpful
Marco Avila
United States
Learn to Code in Python
Really nails down the basics of python, whether you already know some of it or not, it introduces you to functions that you might not have learned in school or university and helps see how Python might be used more in different applications.
Vytenis Kučinskas
Lithuania
Learn to Code in Python
Awesome course. Once I got started I was hooked. It really made the basics more engaging and broke down specific tidbits that are hard to grasp in other course. For example magic numbers, indexing, accessing dictionary values, infinity etc. Those tricks like how to do a factorial helps you understand the functions like math.factorial(). I am much better at following code flow now and I've been reviewing source code for 8+ years.
Eugene C.
A galaxy far far away...
Learn to Code in Python
Returning python programmer, needed a review, ended up learning things I didn't know about python (e.g. type hints), and nailing down concepts about different types I didn't realize I struggled with. This course is well thought out and provides excellent exposition. The gamified curriculum made the course easy for me to stick with. I highly suggest this course to anyone wanting to start their programming journey or even just as a refresher for returning programmers.
Ollen
United States
Learn to Code in Python
A good, challenging course that provides good foundations for aspiring developers.
Riain Ambrose
Ireland
Learn to Code in Python
I thought this was very thorough and a good entry to Python. I found the lessons clean and the pacing mostly fantastic. The gamified concepts helped motivate me to keep learning on a daily basis, but the lessons themselves was what actually taught me some good fundamentals. I would at times had liked more iteration and working with concepts, the jump in difficulty sometimes seemed very steep - Likewise sometimes we also moved incredibly slow with very basic stuff. Overall I liked it.
Thomas Bøg
Denmark
Learn to Code in Python
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