Python Object Basics: Functions, Recursion, and Objects
Code and run your first python program in minutes without installing anything!
This course is designed for learners with limited coding experience, providing a solid foundation of not just python, but core Computer Science topics that can be transferred to other languages. The modules in this course cover functions, recursion, objects, and mutability. Completion of the prior 2 courses in this specialization are recommended.
To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You'll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to small, approachable coding exercises that take minutes instead of hours.
Status: Programming Principles
Programming Principles
Status: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Intermediate·Course·11 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Oct 14, 2025
The best beginner's Python course I have ever taken.
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Ahmed
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 22, 2021
one of my favorite specialization. Every thing is amazing but the lab for me especially the tutor module I don't like it I wanna see something else or see more exercises.. if you could make the lab more fun then this will be the best course in the world ( I have taken many python courses but Honestly this one is so funny and interesting the material is simple for non native speaker to understand well .. GREAT EFFORT) and when you need the support the support team or the instructor herself/himself reply to you on the same day.
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Christine
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 14, 2025
The best beginner's Python course I have ever taken.
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Hariharan
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 8, 2021
Really enjoyed the course! Nice way of teaching.
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5.0
·Reviewed Dec 8, 2022
Great hand on course
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Gerardo
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 18, 2021
Excellent course!!!
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Ritesh
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 31, 2025
nice course
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Mallikarjuna
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 16, 2022
nice course
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RHYTHM
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 30, 2025
very good
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Jalendar
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 28, 2021
Excellent
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DINESH
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 6, 2025
its good
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Dmitriy
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 7, 2024
Loved it
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Shadi
4.0
·Reviewed Jul 10, 2022
Very good applied course!
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Chi
3.0
·Reviewed Oct 31, 2022
I wish they'd make it easier to re-take the exercises: first of all, the direction on how to re-take is kind of obscure; secondly, even if the mistakes are trivial or immaterial on one excercise, one has to complete all the excercises before it's possible to "reset" and "retake".
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Skyler
2.0
·Reviewed Feb 23, 2023
some lecture and exercises are wrong; they are greatly misleading