Python programming course. Who passed?

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Hello! They advised me to take the course in Coursera. It's called "Introduction to Interactive Python Programming". There are 2 parts. Please tell me who worked on it:
1) Standing? Is it necessary to look?
2) As far as I understand, you need to sign up there and can you go through it for free? But this is without a certificate. I don't need him yet.
3) Who else can advise something similar?
4) And how to enter and practice on it?

Answer 1

Yes, a normal course for coursera (here it is by the way https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython1 ), better than many. All the specializations there are excellent - funny teachers, interesting tasks, they make you write tests and comply with PEP8. On stepic it is much easier, but in Russian, only. The course from codecademy.com is elementary, mb to load something more serious just to take.
The best ones I've gone through:
https://www.udacity.com/courses/cs101 - basics
https://www.udacity.com/courses/cs212 - in-depth stuff

Answer 2

dmkpress.com/catalog/computer/programming/python/9...
in the back of the book it says "circulation 200 copies", xs, is it true, but I recommend it, this is already an advanced level

Answer 3

I went to codecademy.com, the basics are well chewed there, so it's more for beginners. True, there is a din minus - in English, but there is enough minimal knowledge.

Answer 4

I'll tell you about my experience. I took this course, both parts of it. The impressions are the most positive. At that time, the programming experience was not great and this course helped me a lot "somehow to be liberated or something" and just start coding.
Since all the projects there are basically built on the creation of toys, I literally enjoyed the fact that I programmed and played and created games for myself. I honestly had a question - "How to do what happened like this" and you really start to think how to solve it programmatically. I remember how at some point I wanted to implement one feature, I realized that I needed something other than a global namespace and a set of functions, so I clearly discovered the benefits of objects and data encapsulation for myself.
A very active community was a plus. We often exchanged our work, showed each other what everyone had done, challenged each other.
In general, I really liked

Answer 5

1) Standing? Is it necessary to look?

Very superficial.
With some of your own non-smart zadrochki tasks, in your condo WEB development environment ... which everyone promised to improve ...
Read books ;-)

Answer 6

If you have never seen python in your eyes, then these courses will go very well. When I passed, there was only the 1st part, I was delighted with the teachers, I'm sure the 2nd is no worse.