By Chesco from Valencia, Valencia 4 months ago Taking Course Now

Self-contained on-line course, with compiler on-line as well. The contents are a little bit basic, but should work PERFECTLY for any person wanting to initiate in Python. A lot of exercises, and you even earn badges which is a nice motivator to keep track of your work. Totally recommended.

By Mike Taylor from Seattle, Washington 40 days ago Completed (Partially)

I still have a few lessons to go. I've both taken and taught programming in the past and was interested in how Code Academy was delivering the content as well as the syntax and particulars of Python. Starts slowly enough for the beginners but moves fairly quickly to include items like control, lists, functions, dictionaries, loops, and classes. There are some projects for stretching what you know but the projects walk you through the steps. What's missing here are the hard open ended questions you often get in a teacher led programming class.

If you'd prefer not to listen to an instructor, this is a GREAT class. All reading.

It's the hours of working through hard problems where one really learns the ins and outs of programming. As far as learning basics of programming and python - the course does a pretty good job.

I also liked the badges. You never get too old for a gold star.

Udacity has a pretty good intro to programming class which has more videos (I like the instructor). If you are just learning programming, I'd recommend taking both.