Menu
Programming is a new kind of literacy. It gives you power and control over computers, opens the door to new job opportunities, and lets you understand the modern world. No wonder so many people want to learn to code.
But too many programming classes go quickly, assuming that participants have already learned to code in another language. Or they concentrate on the syntax, without trying to give students a sense of why things work the way they do, or why they should care about certain things.
Not this course. “Python for non-programmers” is the recording of a 15-part webinar series that I gave in 2000, while the pandemic was raging around the world and we were all stuck at home. It’s aimed at people with little or no coding background — and it goes slowly, little by little, through the core ideas and syntax you’ll need to write programs. Every class includes some exercises, which we discuss and review in detail. As you go through the course, you’ll gain confidence, and hopefully enthusiasm, for writing programs in Python.
Join thousands of others who have learned the basics of coding via this free course, and discover the joy of programming in Python.
Monthly
Annual
Save 20%
I’m a one-person company dedicated to improving your career via Python and related technologies. If you haven’t gotten value from any of my courses, then just tell me — and I’ll refund your money.
Reuven is a full-time Python trainer. In a given year, he teaches courses at companies in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and China — as well as to people around the world, via his online courses.
Reuven created one of the first 100 Web sites in the world just after graduating from MIT’s computer science department. He opened Lerner Consulting in 1995, and has been offering training services since 1996.
In 2020, Reuven published “Python Workout,” a collection of Python exercises with extensive explanations, published by Manning. He’s currently finishing edits on “Pandas Workout,” a similar collection of exercises using the “Pandas” library for data analytics.
Reuven’s free, weekly “Better developers” newsletter, about Python and software engineering, is read by more than 30,000 developers around the globe. His “Trainer weekly” newsletter is popular among people who give corporate training.
Reuven’s most recent venture is Bamboo Weekly: Every Wednesday, he presents a problem based on current events, using a public data set. And every Thursday, he shared detailed solutions to those problems using Pandas.
Reuven’s monthly column appeared in Linux Journal from 1996 until the magazine’s demise in 2019. He was also a panelist on both the Business of Freelancing and Freelancers Show podcasts.
Reuven has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from MIT, and a PhD in learning sciences from Northwestern University. He lives in Modi’in, Israel with his wife and three children.
I send a full-length Python article to more than 30,000 people each week — on topics ranging from iterators to descriptors, variable assignment to sets, exceptions to command-line arguments. Join me, and get smarter about Python each week!