Online Python Programming Course

Python appears to be the preferred language to teach programming now days, at least in most of the introductory computer programming courses in MOOCs. Here I give you a short list of courses if you want to start learning programming (or if you want to recommend someone else, as if you read this blog, chance is you are already a programmer!). :)
  • Introduction to Computer Science
    "At the end of this course, you will have learned key concepts in computer science and enough programming to be able to write Python programs to solve problems on your own. This course will prepare you to move on to intermediate-level computing courses."
  • Learn to Program: The Fundamentals
    "This course introduces the fundamental building blocks of programming and teaches you how to write fun and useful programs using the Python language."
And there is also Google's Python Class!

If you know about more such online courses, just write a comment.

Comments

tommy said…
MIT open course http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/video-lectures/

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/unit-1/lecture-1-introduction-to-6.00/

August 6, 2013 at 7:22 PM
Unknown said…
Code Academy has introductory courses on Python.
September 1, 2013 at 1:22 PM
Munira said…
BEST COURSE IN pYthon:
Yes, at last I got a certificate for pYthon from Coursera (Programming for Everybody (Python))."Programming for Everybody (Python)" by University of Michigan is the best Course in online.Only watch the first intro, you just fall in love with this Course. There are so many quiz and assignment. Any novice programmer or interested in programming can learn something in new way. Charles Severance is a awesome mentor (I think he is little mad which I like most). For participate the course you just need simple arithmetic idea nothing else.

https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn




September 4, 2015 at 9:24 PM
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