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CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python (cs50.harvard.edu)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For anybody that might not have heard, Harvard University launched Intro to Programming with Python last year, which is a free 9-week course for complete beginners and includes a free certificate of completion at the end.

It's taught by the same professor who teaches Harvard's Intro to CS, the university's most-popular on-campus course.

The course is very hands-on with weekly problem sets and a final project that you complete through an in-browser code editor.

You can also take the course via edX but there, the certificate costs $199. If you take it through Harvard OpenCourseWare, the course is exactly the same but the certificate is entirely free.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I completed the CS50x course and it was very good!, although I believe its too difficult for 100% beginners. I do recommend people to check it out though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm not a beginner and I got lost at the end of the section on C. Might give this python course a try and look at CS50 again on the other side of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

CS50 courses are legit, I learnt a lot from taking CS50 as a teenager even if I didn't manage to complete it back then, should get around to finishing it sometime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I'm just starting my journey learning to code, I'll definitely check this out.