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Computing in Python I: Fundamentals and Procedural Programming

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Overview

Learn the fundamentals of computing in Python, including variables, operators, and writing and debugging your own programs.

What you'll learn

  • How a computer processes programming code
  • The write-run-debug cycle of writing code, running it, and revising it based on its output.
  • Procedural programming, or how to write sequential lines of code.
  • Variables, their types, and their role in complex programs.
  • Mathematical operators for arithmetic operations, exponents, and more.
  • Relational operators for evaluating relative values or set membership.
  • Boolean operators for resolving complex logical statements.

Skills you'll practise

Relational OperatorMathematicsProcedural ProgrammingLogical OperatorsInterest RatesOperationsPython (Programming Language)Debugging

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • University courses you can audit for free, with lectures, readings and practice quizzes.
  • A verified certificate from the university if you pay for it.
  • From Georgia Institute of Technology, a well-regarded name.
  • Rated 4.7 out of 5 by 103 learners.
  • 277,023 learners have taken it, so help and notes are easy to find.
  • Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

  • Graded assignments and the certificate need the paid track.
  • Audit access can expire a few weeks after the course ends.
  • Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
  • Some parts (graded work, certificate) are paid.

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Free to audit

  • Free: Choose "Audit this course" when you enrol: lectures, readings and practice are free.
  • Paid: Graded assignments and the verified certificate (Certificate $189). Audit access may end after the course closes.

Before you start

This course presupposes no prior knowledge beyond basic arithmetic; knowledge of high school-level algebra, however, is desirable.

Taught by

  • David JoynerExecutive Director of Online Education & OMSCS | Principal Research Associate | Zvi Galil PEACE Chair

Georgia Institute of Technology is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (86/100).

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