CS50 from Harvard. Probably the best free python course you will find

there are a lot of extremely good python courses around now and many of them are free and you know you have to be careful when you use superlatives like the best because it's often a subjective uh opinion about whether something is the best or not now it's a word i do use from time to time where i describe courses and the course that i want to tell you about today i think could be described as one of the best free python courses available but of course it depends what you need this is the cs50 course from harvard it's a really well-known course and you might already know about it but if you're new to learning how to code and learning about python then there's a chance that you won't know about it so i want to make sure that you know if you see this then you're aware of it because i wouldn't want you to miss out on this course because i think it is so good uh it's from harvard it's a very famous course they have their own youtube channel it has over a million subscribers and they have various other courses as well so once once you've done the main python course you can do a course on web development and there's one on ai as well let me show you the course and show you what it contains and then you can decide for yourself but i think if you're new to python and you want to learn not just python but the fundamentals of computer science as well then this would be a good course for you it's a challenging course i've taken it myself a few years ago now but it's it's it's not a doddle uh and you learn concepts about computer science that you know if you're completely new to the subject will make you think and uh will you know the assignments which are graded will take you a while to complete but it'll give you an excellent foundation so let's have a look and uh i can just take you through what this course contains i'm not quite sure how but i seem to be inside an old operating system anyway if you click on the link in the description you can come and take a look too why would you want to do that well by doing so you can enter break the code 2022 where you'll face a series of challenges and puzzles and if you solve them you can win some prizes you could win an exclusive keanu reeves signed a script of the matrix a james bond goldeneye weapon system a custom macbook pro and the top prize for the best code breaker is a customized setup with the latest equipment worth twelve thousand dollars i've already entered the game and i've solved the first puzzle they're not easy and i'm a bit stuck on puzzle two now the game comprises of four drives so when you get into this operating system you have access first of all to an email you have to read that email and then from that email you have to work out how to progress onto the next stage once you've done that you have access to the drives where you'll find the more difficult puzzles a lot of thoughts gone into this break the code 2022 by dot tech domains just using the emulator is a lot of fun and the puzzles are challenging you won't just be able to solve them straight away i think you'll really enjoy doing it and there's the chance of winning some prizes so why don't you just click on the link in the description and see what you think maybe just maybe you could solve all the puzzles so here it is this is the information page about the course on the harvard website uh the course is provided through edx but it's a free course i think you can pay for a certificate but it's a free course and you can learn a little bit more about it here it's 11 weeks long with a time commitment of 10 to 20 hours a week so it's you know it's a serious course and this is what you'll learn uh you it's an entry level course taught by david j malen david mellon is a great teacher he really is and he teaches these subjects very very well and he explains the concepts very well so what it covers is abstraction algorithms data structures encapsulation resource management security software engineering and web development languages include c python sql and javascript plus css and html and there are problem sets as well so it's not just here's how to code in python it's much more of a an all-around course that teaches you the fundamentals of computer science and then teaches how to apply some of those uh in python i think you'll really like it if you haven't heard of the course before then go and take a look it's free so before you spend any money on another course just go and have a look at this one if you go to youtube and search for cs50 you'll see this page here and you'll be able to get an idea of the style and whether it's for you or not um i can't see how it wouldn't be uh it's it's such a good course i think most people would learn well from this course so go and take a look before you spend any money on another course go and take a look at this course and see what you think i hope that's been views for you and i'll see you next time i almost forgot to say the link is in the description but you know you probably guessed that anyway

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Published: Fri Apr 08 2022