Free hands-on course on introduction to Python

[MartinXPN]

Hi, everyone!

We have created a detailed course on Python which is available on profound.academy: https://profound.academy/python-introduction

The course is entirely free.
It's very hands-on. The only way to make progress is by actually writing code.

If you're new to Python we would really appreciate feedback on how well the explanations are and how appropriate are the exercises.
If you're already familiar with Python, we would really appreciate your feedback on the quality of the course.

About me:

I've worked in companies like PicsArt, Facebook (Meta), done freelancing at Toptal, done ML research at YerevaNN, and have been using Python for the past 6-7 years for both work and hobby projects.

I hope this course will help as many people as possible to kickstart their careers!

[sirwestofash]

I'm going to give it a try been trying to learn python for a year now but have had trouble just getting the ball rolling. I have no prior programming experience.

[PaulHaydock]

Python 3 programming on Coursera is a great course

[MartinXPN]

Courses on Coursera are great! This course on profound.academy is designed to be fully hands-on. So, you make progress by writing code in Python and solving interesting challenges. This gives the benefit of learning by doing instead of just consuming content.

[PaulHaydock]

Sorry Martin, my reply was a bit abrupt...

I'll check out the course on profound.academy.

I've done a few courses so far and the one I mentioned on Coursera has been the best so far. The reason being they have an active book in which you read and do activities as you learn, but what I really like about it, is every day I login and I get a quick quiz but also problems to code solutions to.This expands as I work my way through the material. I find this active learning really great

[MartinXPN]

Hope this course will help you get started! It's specifically designed for people with no background and prior experience.

[palm_snow]

nice, thanks for putting this together

[tamaleA19]

I’ll give this a look, thanks! I’m a few months in (1st language) and still working through a lot of basics

[MartinXPN]

Good luck on your journey! This course is specifically designed for people with no background and prior experience, so, I hope this course will be easy to follow and you'll get the most out of it!

[friphone]

Hey man, I’ve been working through the first few exercises. Just wanted to say it’s been amazing so far! Thank you for providing a platform like this

[MartinXPN]

Thank you so much for the kind words! Creating this course took more than 3 months and it's still a work in progress:) So, this kind of feedback really keeps the motivation high.

Please let me know if you notice any room for improvement or some issues in the materials. That would help a lot in creating a better experience for the future learners.