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About the Course

Have you ever wished you knew how to program, but had no idea where to start from? This course will teach you how to program in Scratch, an easy to use visual programming language. More importantly, it will introduce you to the fundamental principles of computing and it will help you think like a software engineer....

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EA

Jun 3, 2020

for a total beginner in coding, this course was the perfect start! It was easy to understand, and easy to program (coding wit already?)

Thank you so much for offering such a wonderful way to learn!

ED

Apr 4, 2016

the course is what the name says it is, an introduction to programming, great course for any code beginner. Lecturer is doing amazing job and keeping the lectures interesting, easy and understandable.

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By Sabrina S

Nov 1, 2021

Muy bueno para iniciar en el mundo de la programacion, me encanto trabajar con scrath

By Esteban P B

Nov 23, 2021

very nice the metodologic excellent teacher and very funny... thanks

By Christian R

Aug 3, 2020

Good course for someone who is starting in programming.

By Jeancarlo A C

Nov 1, 2021

Very good and practice, I learn more of programmming

By Dalad J A S

Oct 19, 2021

I enjoyed it, it's really good to start programming.

By Eddy U

Oct 24, 2021

I love the course. I enjoyed playing and learning.

By Kevin E A H

Oct 13, 2021

Excelente introduccion al mundo de la programación

By Rucha M

Jun 8, 2020

This course was lots of fun and I learnt a lot.

By Nandhana

Nov 8, 2021

Very easy to interpret and excellent teaching

By Nikita T

Nov 24, 2021

the mam is super, she teaches efficiently

By Angelo M M P

Oct 17, 2021

Really great course. Truly recommend it.

By Pedro “ C

Nov 21, 2021

I love this course. Thanks so much!!!

By ANASTASIOS A

Nov 15, 2021

Excellent course

By Jiří H

Nov 18, 2021

really good!

By Andres G

Oct 22, 2021

Nice course!

By William T H

Dec 2, 2021

AWESOME!

By Kenneth A C V

Nov 24, 2021

good

By Bimo A A

Oct 27, 2021

nice

By Mariko M

Feb 13, 2016

You will have to make a Scratch account (free) for this course.

Areti is a very clear instructor that explained concepts very well for complete beginners into programming, like myself and I found the course insightful.

1) Presentation - I couldn't help but wonder whether they had a lower target age (teenagers or younger) in mind, which was entertaining at some points but also distracting at other times. // Also, I only realized halfway through the course that it is in fact possible to see what Areti is doing on the Scratch program once the quality of the video is adjusted.

2) Projects/Time Commitment - Going through the lectures and quizzes are not time consuming at all, but the projects (especially the final project) takes a lot of time. It took longer than expected because I felt like much of the practical instructions on how to use Scratch for specific purposes were not provided during the course, leaving me to work by myself.

3) Discussion Forum - When I took the course, the discussion forum was close to being dead (especially compared to some of the other courses that I was taking simultaneously on Coursera). Gerry (mentor) did an amazing job responding to my inquiry, but I noticed that although there were a lot of students talking at the beginning, introducing themselves, there weren't that many discussions concerning the final assignment, making me feel like I was working alone. It would be great if there was more time to work on the final project, and perhaps a way in which students can collaborate and help out others when faced with a bug (ie preliminary project submission and feedback session).

I recommend taking this course, but realistically, you won't be program proficient after 5 weeks. You will, however, learn some basic programming theory, understand how programming works, and learn how to make a fun interactive game on Scratch!

By PARU

May 24, 2021

It is easy to understand the course even for a beginner. The instructors are excellent.

Thankyou coursera

By Caden D

Nov 28, 2022

This is a very good course for beginners, but it is not up to date with the current version of scratch.

By Nabeeha A

Oct 28, 2021

It was absolutely good for beginners

By Crystal A

Oct 30, 2021

Great introduction to programming

By Shashank K S

Apr 30, 2020

This course is ok but it is not providing any certificate .I think certificates motivates us to achieve our goals.It gives courage that Yes!!we have completed this course

But you are not providing us a certificate 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

But we are happy that we have learnt a lot. We will be happier to receive your certificate.

THANK YOU

By David S

Sep 2, 2020

This course covered the basics of computer programming and software engineering. Though it use scratch desktop as it programming tool, knowledge from this course can be applied in any other programming language with regards to the approaches to designing a program.