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Online Course

Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code

University of Toronto via Coursera

Found in Programming

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Provider Coursera
Cost Free Online Course (Audit)
Session Upcoming
Language English
Certificate Paid Certificate Available
Effort 6-8 hours a week
Start Date
Duration 5 weeks long
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Overview

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Not all programs are created equal. In this course, we'll focus on writing quality code that runs correctly and efficiently. We'll design, code and validate our programs and learn how to compare programs that are addressing the same task.

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Taught by

Jennifer Campbell and Paul Gries

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Reviews for Coursera's Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code Based on 9 reviews

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3 star 11%
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Nigel T

Nigel is taking this course right now, spending 20 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

Edited: One star. The tests fail you because you can't properly read the question. The tests change subtly each time around. You'll spend 25 minutes on the test, and get 78%, every time, getting different answers "wrong". This course sucks. Maybe if you like pain?

A very good course, let down by the quotes issue!

The tests are fairly good, keeping you thinking, but alas the execution of the website means that every other test question is marred by strings of everywhere that should show a ' (single quote/apostrophe)

Here's an example:

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