I started learning python on my own in 2012 by watching videos from this YouTube channel, downloaded all-level programming tuts and I ended up with 300 mp4 files, but never took the effort to go through them. So in 2013 my neighbor and I were planning on doing app development for android while sitting at the herbal garden in jwalagiri, so we thought why not build some basic python skills, python being a high level language, before going into app development. We discussed many app ideas and “vow”-ed that we’ll get back into this after his exams, by the end of june/july. But me being busy with my training programme starting in june, i thought-why not now? So i went to several websites that provided python tuts. Many of them were good,but i wanted something that provided a certification. Tried edX, coursera, but their distant learning sessions in interactive python were still about to start. + i wanted something that had flexible timings. So i found this cool website called codecademy.org and enrolled for Interactive Python. Its fairly simple and teaches us just like in school. It has an on-screen python window (or Intrepreter as they call it) on the right, on which we can do the programming-thing based on the instructions given on the left pane. As of now I’ve completed 25% of the course. See my public profile here. Our next step is to learn app dev from appinventor.org. 🙂
Wish us good luck: @thatgeeman @HAFZ11
BTW, codecademy does not issue certificates for finishing lessons or tracks.
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