Ratings and Reviews for Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)

excellent introduction to programming

Good course for the people who just stepped into Python :)

Great practical intro to python

very easy to follow, great instructor

easy to understand, but I feel the assignments are too easy

The course is great, although I do think people with no experience need a bit more videos and details on various stuff such as variable types, lists, ect

great start for beginners in python programming:)

I have been self teaching myself programming for many years. But I have never really specialized in anything. It's always been a little knowledge here and there for various languages. The problem was that after time I would forget some important syntax for each of those languages. So I decided that I wanted to, for lack of a better word, "master" a language, and I decided on Python. This course did very well at going over the basics, I thought I would blow through this first course and learn nothing since I have been programming for years, but it was wrong. Although I did blow through the course in a couple of days. The instructor Charles Severance's way of explaining things has made me view the code differently, and has helped me write more efficiently as a result. I can't wait to get into the more advanced classes.

A great course if you want to learn Python but has no python background or any coding background.

I had started out this course with great trepidation, of the fear that I may be too old to learn programming. However, I must state that Dr. Charles Severance is an excellent teacher. I have managed to complete the course well ahead of time. I have had very little programming experience and was glad to be able to complete the assignments on time. The course is well structured and I was able to follow the material well enough to complete the quiz at the end of each chapter without any hiccups. Thank you Coursera. I look forward to taking many more courses here.