Jan-25-2018, 01:38 AM
Harvard University online has free, self-paced courses on Python that have video lessons along with written versions of the lessons. I know about three, but I've started with the third, and that's getting pulled offline at the start of March, so I don't know whether the first two have already been pulled offline. The course I'm working my way through is pretty easy for me, but it taught me some things I could not for the life of me figure out from the Python Documentation no matter how often I read the relevant parts.
The instructors do their lessons in Jupyter Notebook and tell you to install it, but I'm doing just fine with a terminal and sometimes text editor. (In Windows you can use IDLE, which comes bundled with the Python installer, and you'll do fine.)
The course is free just to take for knowledge. If you want a certificate that you completed it successfully, you have to pay $99, send them proof of your identity, and arrange for proctoring for the final exam, which is done online. Not worth it when this HackerRank report says that certificates (and I mean certificates, not college degrees or other serious credentials) are pretty much worthless to everyone who counts in programming. Just take the free course and learn.
The instructors do their lessons in Jupyter Notebook and tell you to install it, but I'm doing just fine with a terminal and sometimes text editor. (In Windows you can use IDLE, which comes bundled with the Python installer, and you'll do fine.)
The course is free just to take for knowledge. If you want a certificate that you completed it successfully, you have to pay $99, send them proof of your identity, and arrange for proctoring for the final exam, which is done online. Not worth it when this HackerRank report says that certificates (and I mean certificates, not college degrees or other serious credentials) are pretty much worthless to everyone who counts in programming. Just take the free course and learn.