Udacity’s Intro to Programming is your first step towards careers in Web and App Development, Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, and more! This program is perfect for beginners.

Necessary preparation

• You are self-driven and motivated to learn. Participation in this program requires consistently meeting project deadlines and devoting at least 10 hours per week to your work.
• You can communicate fluently and professionally in written and spoken English.
• You have access to a computer with a broadband connection, on which you’ll install a professional code/text editor (e.g. Sublime Text or Atom).
• You can independently solve and describe your solution to a math or programming problem.

For those who want to

• Learn the basics of programming through HTML, CSS, Python, and JavaScript.
• Get extensive practice with hands-on exercises and projects that demonstrate your grasp of coding fundamentals, and build confidence in your ability to think and problem-solve like a programmer.

The Program 

1. Intro to Web Development.
2. Intro to Programming with Python I.
3. Intro to Programming with Python II.
4. Intro to JavaScript.

What will you learn

• How to make basic web pages using HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and how to add style to your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
• Core programming concepts and fundamental Python syntax by writing code to make a virtual «turtle» robot draw colorful shapes on the screen.
• How to write Python functions, run Python from a Command-Line Interface (CLI), manipulate strings and lists, and refactor your code to improve its structure and make it more modular.
• How to work with files on your computer’s disk, how to retrieve data using a web API, and how to use Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) to create your own classes, objects, and methods.
• The fundamentals of web programming using JavaScript, the ubiquitous language for creating dynamic web applications.