A world-class course with a fantastic teacher. Main distinguishing feature was the difficult assignment task. I was initially having a lot of problems with functions but after watching the course and clearing the assignment, functions is no longer a difficulty for me. Way to go Coursera and Upenn!

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. This course did an excellent job of outlining the fundamentals of programming and provided exercises to test the learning objectives. The exercises were appropriately challenging. The lecture material was interesting and perfectly instructive.

Generally very good. All material was well organised, well presented and excellent. I would add some content on high level concepts such as variable scope as well as opinions on coding best practices. A followup course for more advanced concepts/use cases would be even better!

Relatively fast, but well-explained and good practice exercises. I feel that I now have a solid grasp on the basics of Python. It did help to have a very basic idea of what programming is - e.g. to know about variables, loops etc., because this is not explained in depth.

There was very good instruction, the material was challenging and informative. I would have liked being able to interact with other students more for assistance and ideas. Using the internet for additional help and information was key to passing the final assignment.

Video lectures are concise but comprehensive (most 1-2min or shorter, rarely >10min).

Coding assessments are difficult but perfectly do-able and are grounded in real-life applications. TAs provide useful hints and assistance in discussion forums that can help if stuck.

This course was very well put together. The lessons and quizzes are though out and provide great opportunites for learning. The assessments are challenging at times, but rewarding once completed. I feel much better prepared with these Python techniques to continue.

Not a bad course. It is a little sparse in the beginning but the exercises were challenging and good. I would take py4e before starting this as py4e is truly for absolute beginners. This feels like a step harder. You can def do this as an absolute beginner though.

The course is great! Each topic is well explained. Examples, exercises and exams are very helpful to make sure we are understanding. The only thing I didn't feel comfortable with was the last assignment on module 4. I found it very complex.

It is a good course, it provides a few good homework for me to practice. Then the course gave you some hint for the homework, but it did not give you too much clues. In that way, it would help you to solve the problem by yourself.

For a person from a completely non-CS background, it was very easy to pick up Python programming from this course. It's very well structured, and the last assignment is the challenge that you need to test your knowledge.

Really surprised of course methodology. This is not a old-fashioned theoretical course. Lessons are well sum-up, and practical exercises and quizzes are not that simple. Finally, homeworks are challenging. So, thank you.

This introduction is really easy to understand. The attached codes benefit me by helping me try the actual function and relative retail introduced in videos. Overall, this course is highly recommended for tyros.

It's very good course to learn Python Programing. The assignments are challenging, and hints given are really helpful to solve the problems. Get to learn a lot and practice what I've learned from the class.

This course is overall comprehensive and one of the best tools to lead new Python users to the right way. The content gives proper attention to theories while providing efficient practices. Nice taking it!

All the contents are expressed direct and clear and no previous experience is needed, that's why I really enjoy this course. I would like to also understand Python comprehension lists in this course.

Hometasks are sometimes tough, but all topics from them are covered in lectures, so if you pay enough attention to the information, given in videos, there will be no problem to finish this course.

Very good course from those who want to know more about data structures and reading/writing file. I do recommend that you be a litle familar with baic programming stuctures.

This course is a very good course. It gave me a good understanding of the basics of Python Programming , Python syntax and I really liked Brandon's teaching style.

I really enjoyed this course. It was well paced and covered the basics nicely. The practice exercises were hard, but made sure you learned all the key concepts.

Very helpful for beginners to get hands-on experience.

Most assessments are challenging for people without coding background but incorporate most key concepts!

I can't wait to enroll for the 100% online master at Penn U. The instructor in this course has shown a great value of this introduction to python programming.

It;s amazing course to start your programing. The way of explaining by faculty is good . The assignments level is challengeing. Perfect course for beginners

Great quality course. The assignments are challenging, so make sure you've have some exposure to the basics of Python before attempting this course.

Even though this course is not the first in intro to python. I must admit it added lots of python programming details and techniques to my skills.