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About the Course

Kickstart your Python journey with this beginner-friendly, self-paced course taught by an expert. Python is one of the most popular programming languages, and the demand for individuals with Python skills continues to grow. This course takes you from zero to programming in Python in a matter of hours—no prior programming experience is necessary! You’ll begin with Python basics, including data types, expressions, variables, and string operations. You will explore essential data structures such as lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets, learning how to create, access, and manipulate them. Next, you will delve into logic concepts like conditions and branching, learning how to use loops and functions, along with important programming principles like exception handling and object-oriented programming. As you progress, you will gain practical experience reading from and writing to files and working with common file formats. You’ll also use powerful Python libraries like NumPy and Pandas for data manipulation and analysis. The course also covers APIs and web scraping, teaching you how to interact with REST APIs using libraries like requests and extract data from websites using BeautifulSoup. You will practice and apply what you learn through hands-on labs using Jupyter Notebooks. By the end of this course, you’ll feel comfortable creating basic programs, working with data, and automating real-world tasks using Python. This course is suitable for individuals interested in pursuing careers in Data Science, Data Analytics, Software Development, Data Engineering, AI, and DevOps and a variety of other technology-related roles....

Top reviews

PJ

Dec 1, 2020

It is a good course and teaches with the basic of Python so that anyone can understand it very well. Videos are good and can easily be understandable to anyone who is new to Python and Data Science.

EH

Jun 11, 2021

It is a very valuable course that I have learned for the Python skillset. It contains some advanced methods. It helps me to build more confidence in using Python and understand the concept in general.

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By kamjula c

Oct 3, 2018

Thank you joshep santarcangelo and coursera.org for your support and willingness to help millions out there, this course is very useful.

By JORGE E L A

Apr 4, 2025

el curso que mas me costo, que mas aprendí y a la ves mas dificultades tuve pq no todo estaba en español... pero se logro y estoy feliz

By ankit n

Oct 6, 2023

Pretty simple course, starts from the basics and levels up gradually. The Final Exams is easy as well. This course got over in no time!

By Girban A

Jun 23, 2023

Excellent course for beginners and intermediate as well. Helps you get a hold of what could esentially be done with the help of Python.

By houssem s

Oct 23, 2021

A very good course for a beginner that permits him to begin a new career with a good knowledge of python libraries for data science .

By Daniel H L B

Jun 16, 2020

Awesome tools and very well-explained videos. I 100% recommend this course, even if you don't have a previous knowledge in programming.

By Shishir M

May 27, 2020

Very useful and great tutorials. The lab sessions are just awesome to gain practical knowledge "learning by doing".

Thanks to Coursera!!

By Yifei S

Jul 12, 2019

The course provides a detailed and complete picture for the beginners like me to get the key points. Thanks! The presentation is great!

By Usman N

Mar 24, 2019

This is an introductory level course. It i good for those who have some background in programming and those who are absolute beginners.

By KIRUBHAKARAN M

Mar 10, 2024

This course was very useful and covered a wide range of topics covering from data types to functions, objects, files and data handling

By Rodrigo H d F

Nov 17, 2022

I think it's a very complete course teaching excepting handle, class, API and webscraping. One of the best python courses I have seen.

By Yeonjae S

Oct 30, 2022

I learned alot through this course. The lab work was also very helpful to get hands-on practice rather than just watching the videos.

By Kevin S

Oct 7, 2022

This is genuinely a great overview of Python. Perhaps some more hands on labs would be great. But the whole IBM course is very good.

By Gerardo A L

Apr 4, 2022

Great course to start python programmin. It explains the basic topics very well and practical something that other courses dont have.

By rukalpa d

Oct 30, 2021

i liked the course a lot. it was self-paced and gave me the basic knowledge about python programming required to try hands-on projects

By Ty M

Jul 26, 2021

Top notch course! Contains good programming examples for getting starting and gaining familiarity with Python and Jupyter Notebooks.

By Akhil S

Aug 2, 2020

It was a great course and the assignments were so good to sharpen our theoretical knowledge which we gained through the awesome videos

By shubham k

Apr 30, 2020

I enjoyed the course offered by IBM .They start from very basic to all the technical stuff needed to

learn the Machine learning and AI

By Bob M

Dec 27, 2019

This course was great. Learned vital skills that make me feel like I have the tools needed to continue down a data driven career path.

By Minmin H

Jul 12, 2019

very useful Python basics taught in a systematic way, it was good review for me, but I also learnt something new on numpy and pandas.

By Sushant K

Feb 3, 2019

Assignment is definitely tricky, given the preceeding course content. Nonetheless, once time is devoted, it will be a worthy conquest.

By Oluwaseun E

Oct 13, 2023

I think the material was well organized and the course labs were very well done, providing avenues to get hands-on with writing code.

By Mnoneleli G

Feb 7, 2023

I enjoyed the recap on the basic python .Webscrapping and APIs were covered in a well coordinated manner that did not overwhelmed me.

By Raphael M

Jun 30, 2022

The course was rea;;y informative and packaged a lot in a high profile format that's quite beneficial regardless of competency level.

By Nearl T V

May 4, 2022

This course has given me a great insight on data science and the powerful python language and its libraries such as pandas and numpy.