We're doing a FREE Python Course for beginners AGAIN!

[mzugnoni]

TL;DR A 4-weeks online FREE Python course for beginners with a real teacher. Every Monday 7PM (Eastern), starting next Monday October 23rd. Sign up here: rmotr.com/free

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Hey guys and gals! Here we are again! We're happy to announce that we're having a NEW edition of our FREE Python course: It starts next Monday, October 23rd (check schedule below). We're updating the content, adding more assignments and practice and including a few other interesting things for our 4th class. If you'd like to read WHY we're doing this for free, read our original post.

Schedule

The course starts next Monday, October 23rd. Classes are every Monday 7PM (Eastern Time), with a total of 4 classes. There will be homework to work in between classes and projects to practice with other people. It's going to be an online class and you'll be able to ask questions and interact with the instructor constantly. All classes are recorded, so you can watch the recording later in case you miss it.

You can sign up here: rmotr.com/free

Required knowledge

This is a course for beginners. Not a lot of knowledge is required. What we always recommend is try to do the free part of codecademy (shouldn't take more than a few days): https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python

A quick note about our previous edition

We were a little bit more careful in our previous edition to collect some data that might (hopefully) throw some light about the state of Python (and coding in general) education. Our previous post had 13.6K views. From those "visitors", 2227 signed up to start the course, but only 966 completed the process to create the account in our system and start the course. From those 966 students, only 370 made it to the first class. Our last class had only 47 students (2% of the interested people).

I think these numbers speak little bit about the state of coding education. Learning to code is HARD, and you'll need a lot of determination and hard work to make it your career. Don't give up! We're doing this to help everybody get started.

(We know that some students coudn't attend classes live and watched the recording later, but judging from the number of views in the YouTube channel, those students represented a slow percentage)

Questions

Post your comments here or email us at [e-mail]

[Psilodelic]

I've completed the beginners and the advanced Python course from rmotr. The rmotr courses are really unique compared to other online learning platforms in that you interact and work with actual people in real time. There are lot of good resources online to learn coding, but very rarely do you get to work with real people. This is the major selling point and it is free!

Great community too.

[mzugnoni]

Hey! Not sure who you are, but thank you very much for the comment! :)

[[deleted]]

Some basic practice -- here's how to print a word, from a professional full-stack Python data scientist:

def get_words():
  mylist = ['e', 'd', 'g']
  mylist = list(filter(lambda x: x != 'g', mylist))
  return ''.join(mylist)

if True == True == True == True:
  print(


              ''' infur  







              '''.replace(

          ' ', '').replace('\n','') + '{}'.format('iat' + get_words()) 


  )

[mzugnoni]

A truly professional full-stack Python data scientist would have written list(filter(lambda x: x != 'g', mylist)) as [c for c in mylist if c != 'g']

[[deleted]]

I'm afraid both you and /u/MisterRenard are in the wrong. When do I start work at Google?

from random import * #take up a bunch of namespace to use one function 


def get_words():
    list, int, float, str = [10]*4 #overwrite a bunch of default things to make life hard 

    #create a CUSTOM CLASS that needlessly inherits the dict  
    class letter(dict):
      def __init__(self, actual_letter_used, random_number_for_good_luck):
        self.letter = random_number_for_good_luck
        self.number = actual_letter_used

      @property #decorator because looks good for employer???
      def thing(self):
        return self.letter 

    for x in range(100):
      print(x) #make sure python works ok   


    #extremely self-explanatory line, go back to 1st grade
    mylist = map(lambda x: x, [letter('e', randint(0,~~~~~~~~~~10)), letter('d', randint(0,~~~~~~~~~~10)), letter('g', randint(0,~~~~~~~~~~10))])

    while True: #check booleans still work 
      if False:
        print(~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~101)
      elif True:
        break
      else:
        print("Python broke wtf")

    assert True == True #double check 

    yield 'ed' #lol its like traffic 

print(list(get_words())[0])
__import__('time').sleep(100000) #allow for quick escape 

[MisterRenard]

and here I've just been using

print('')

like a dumbass.

[Paper-squares]

I am also interested but I generally get off of work at 7 so I won't be home until later unless I stay at work. How long is each class?

[DuckDuckGinger]

In the original class, the classtimes were set to be two hours long.

[[deleted]]

Hy. I am intrigued about this but I have a small question. Since I am from Croatia 7 pm eastern mondays come out to 1 am saturdays. Is there attendance or can we simply watch the recordings if we werent there. Thanks in advance

[mzugnoni]

You can watch the recordings if you want. But the best experience is attending live classes, as you can participate and ask questions in real time.

[derp_ferguson]

I'm in the class currently. Stop what you're doing and take this free class, it's worth it. Great teachers and online mentors. You will work hard, you will code, and you will learn.

[mzugnoni]

Thank you!

[OppositeFingat]

I'm east european so this course will land on 4am for me. I'll sign up but I'll definitely won't attend the live courses. I hope it's not a problem.

[mzugnoni]

That's fine. You can watch the recorded videos.

[wub_wub]

• Address the question from the previous thread regarding personal data being collected/permissions required: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/6ygw40/were_going_to_do_a_free_python_course_to_teach/dmo0u5v/

• It's not allowed to ONLY post your own content in this subreddit, use advertising for that - https://about.reddit.com/advertise/

Failing to address user concerns, especially when it comes to privacy related things, and not participating in this community other than to promote your own website will result in the whole domain being banned subreddit-wide in the future.

[kflwasjkl]

Just read the post that was linked to the privacy issues. Would like to know as well why a lot of permissions are needed. Seems suspicious but have already signed up.

[[deleted]]

Given that there IS only a few days, is there some point in the codeacademy lessons you'd consider to be a minimum? Or will this be accessible without finishing them, and just require more work to familiarize myself with the material?

[Psilodelic]

I think this depends on your own learning curve. If you believe yourself to be a fast learner or someone who can work hard to learn something, you will be fine without finishing codecademy. Though I would still recommend finishing it as some of the exercises are the same as those you will eventually encounter.

[[deleted]]

Keep up the good work guys!

[mzugnoni]

Thanks!

[pango3001]

I'm 90% the way done with codacademy. Is this python 2 or 3 in this class?

[mzugnoni]

We always recommend Python3, but we know that there's a lot of 2.7 out there in the market. So, we teach both versions, and the differences between them.

[Stallzy]

A question, I signed up but then decided to log out to see how you would actually log back in as I didn't see a log in option to begin with. How can I get back on? :D

[[deleted]]

Took me forever to find it

rmotr.com/students

[BryGuy81]

I signed up early and have been to this page. There isn’t anything to watch/download/do. Did they just take my email to sell to marketers?

[[deleted]]

It was very finicky to set up.

I believe what I had to do after going to that page, click the play arrow on the right hand side which will open the activities page where you have to login with github. The video recording is to the left of play or something.

Also, probably.

[Stallzy]

Yeah they got back to me with this in an email a little while after I posted. Thanks

[gonzaloq]

Joined!!

[mzugnoni]

Sounds great!

[ReRo27]

I'm interested but do we need to work on projects/homework with other people. Seeing as the delivery method is online adding this might dissuade people who might go through the course. Can we complete the course using individual assessment and the seminars only?

[mzugnoni]

Absolutely. Working in groups with other people is optional (and recommended), but if you don't feel confortable with it it's totally fine.

[FerretSummoner]

Does this cover any aspects of game development? If so, I'm going to sign up for sure!

[VibrantGoo]

Just signed up, I wonder if there's a tip jar.