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Development Programming Languages Programming Fundamentals

Learn Programming - An Introduction For Non-Programmers

Learn how to write your own computer programs. This course is a stepping stone into the world of programming.
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (168 ratings)
583 students
Created by Joakim Wassberg
Last updated 3/2015
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand the basic concepts of programming
  • Be prepared to learn any programming language

Course content

12 sections • 63 lectures • 2h 52m total length

  • Preview02:18
  • Downloading and installing the software we need
    04:11
  • The code for the programs we write
    00:33

  • Preview00:59
  • Preview06:47
  • Preview02:37
  • Programming languages
    02:34
  • Tools for programmers
    01:23
  • Summary of section 2 - Computers and applications
    01:01
  • Quiz - Computers and applications
    4 questions

  • Introduction to sequence
    00:27
  • Instructions and statments
    09:04
  • The flow of a program
    05:24

  • Introduction to data and data types
    00:42
  • Variables
    07:12
  • Data types
    00:58
  • Numeric data types
    02:52
  • String data type
    04:23
  • The Boolean data type
    01:23
  • Data types in other languages
    02:27
  • Summary data and data types
    00:46
  • Quiz - Data and data types
    3 questions

  • Introduction to operators
    00:39
  • What is an operator
    01:10
  • Operations on numbers
    02:59
  • Operations on strings
    00:51
  • How many operators are there?
    02:26
  • Operators in other languages
    01:37
  • Summary operators
    00:41
  • Quiz - Operators
    4 questions

  • Introduction to containers
    00:59
  • What is a container?
    01:13
  • List
    03:26
  • Dictionaries and tuples
    02:30
  • Are strings containers?
    00:47
  • Containers in other languages
    01:28
  • Summary containers
    00:47
  • Quiz - Containers
    4 questions

  • Introduction to iteration
    00:34
  • Defining a block of code
    01:38
  • Repeating a fixed number of times
    05:29
  • Iterating over a container
    02:12
  • Repeating until a condition is true (or false)
    03:40
  • Iteration in other languages
    02:22
  • Summary iteration
    00:46
  • Quiz - Iteration
    3 questions

  • Introduction to selection
    01:03
  • The if statement, the most basic selection
    03:55
  • If not? The else statement
    01:25
  • Selection in other languages
    01:45
  • Summary selection
    00:45
  • Quiz - Selection
    2 questions

  • Introduction to functions
    00:52
  • Defining a function
    02:52
  • Calling a function
    02:17
  • Passing values to a function - arguments
    02:47
  • Returning a value from a function
    07:14
  • Functions in other languages
    01:25
  • Summary functions
    01:58
  • Quiz - Functions
    3 questions

  • Introduction to object oriented programming
    01:35
  • Classes and objects
    03:51
  • Objects have data and behavior
    12:43
  • Classes and objects in use
    03:51
  • Object oriented programming in other languages
    01:00
  • Summary object oriented programming
    00:53
  • Quiz - Object oriented programming
    3 questions

Requirements

  • We will start from the very beginning. We will install the software needed as we go. You will not need any pre-knowledge at all.

Description

This course will help you unlock the mysteries of programming. We will step-by-step look at the fundamental building blocks found in almost all programming languages. We will use Python as our tool, but this is not an introduction to Python, our focus is on the concepts of programming. 

  After this course you will have a solid foundation to learn any programming language as you will recognize everything you learned during this course. 


This is a course by the author of the book Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

Who this course is for:

  • This course is meant for anyone who is curios about programming, no matter if you going to study it on university or just want to learn some programming for your own use.
  • This is NOT a course for you if you already have some programming expirience in any programming language.

Instructor

Joakim Wassberg
Professional Programming Instructor
Joakim Wassberg
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 168 Reviews
  • 583 Students
  • 1 Course

Joakim has been a professional programmer for 20+ years. Even though he might say that his native language is C++ he has used a number of languages such as Java, C#, Assembler, PHP, JavaScript, Python, ActionScript, Visual Basic, and C to mention a few. He has experience as a self-employed programming consultant, method specialist in the financial sector, and programmer for secure financial transactions.

Ever since 1991 he has been teaching programming in one form or the other. He has been teaching kids how to take their first steps as programmers as well as teaching object oriented programming to Ukrainian university professors. He has been teaching graphics programming in C++ at an Indian university.

Joakim lives with his family in Sweden and is right now giving courses for professional developers in the telecom sector as well as giving longer courses at a polytechnic programming education.

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