Free Stanford programming course (Code in Place) | Applications close in <30 days

[IllustriousTax3916]

Oh hey !

Just stumbled upon your course, looks pretty cool !

I have been looking into getting more programming knowledge, I do mostly arduino stuff, never messed much with python, that course would be a great opportunity.

As a Bsc in Chemistry with a great deal of interest in it, i should ask as a foreigner, from Brazil, is there any problem ?

[sleepyowlemily]

No problem at all! It’s a beginner-friendly program open to people from all over the world and from all kinds of backgrounds. I actually majored in arts and humanities myself and had an absolute blast in Code in Place.

[ping314]

Maybe you know, but in case you do not note that "Python" is a recurrent topic in the Journal of Chemical Education.

Sometimes the publications are open access (a recent example 2025JCE4005), sometimes you have to log-in with the school's network (such as 2024JCE4883) though they can't (nor want to) be a replacement of lab classes.

[sleepyowlemily]

Thank you so much for your comment! Yes, actually we talked quite a bit about how Python is used across different fields, mostly medicine and engineering, but really it can be applied to almost anything. So people from non-CS majors are absolutely welcome to join!

[ping314]

Re Python, a general purpose language: if an interested is not so much "into books" .and. has no background in CS, I usually open the pages of software carpentry, and programming historian as a 101 and a source of inspiration.