Harvard offers an entire Python programming course for FREE

•⁠ ⁠10 weeks of lessons •⁠ ⁠Beginner-friendly •⁠ ⁠Real coding projects •⁠ ⁠Completely self-paced

If you’ve been wanting to learn to code, this is one of the best places to start

https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/⁠

CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Python

Source: https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/

Welcome

An introduction to programming using a language called Python. Learn how to read and write code as well as how to test and “debug” it. Designed for students with or without prior programming experience who’d like to learn Python specifically. Learn about functions, arguments, and return values (oh my!); variables and types; conditionals and Boolean expressions; and loops. Learn how to handle exceptions, find and fix bugs, and write unit tests; use third-party libraries; validate and extract data with regular expressions; model real-world entities with classes, objects, methods, and properties; and read and write files. Hands-on opportunities for lots of practice. Exercises inspired by real-world programming problems. No software required except for a web browser, or you can write code on your own PC or Mac.

WhereasCS50xitself focuses on computer science more generally as well as programming with C, Python, SQL, and JavaScript, this course, aka CS50P, is entirely focused on programming with Python. You can take CS50P before CS50x, during CS50x, or after CS50x. But for an introduction to computer science itself, you should still take CS50x!

Watch an introduction## How to Take this Course

Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to “take” this course for free via this OpenCourseWare by working your way through the course’s tenweeksof material. For each week, follow this workflow:

flowchart TD
    A[Watch Lecture] --> |recommended|B[Watch Shorts]
    A --> C
    B --> C[Submit Problem Set]

And then submit the course’sfinal project.

To submit the course’sproblem setsandfinal projectfor feedback, be sure tocreate an edX account, if you haven’t already. Ask questions along the way via any of the course’scommunities!

• If interested in averified certificatefromedX, enroll atcs50.edx.org/pythoninstead.
• If interested in a professional certificate fromedX, enroll atcs50.edx.org/programs/python(for Python) orcs50.edx.org/programs/data(for Data Science) instead.

How to Teach this Course

If you are a teacher, you are welcome to adopt or adapt these materials for your own course, per thelicense. Additionally, we encourage teachers to participate in theCS50 Educator Workshopto learn more about CS50’s curriculum, technology, and pedagogy.