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Simple coding

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Have you ever wanted to try out simple coding? Want to understand the basics of what it entails? This course introduces you to the skills, concepts and jargon of coding.

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After studying this course, you should be able to:

use programming language Python to produce code
understand the sequences of instructions in Python programmes
understand repetition in Python programming language.

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First Published: 03/12/2018

Updated: 05/12/2018

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radouene Mellouk 26 August 2026 2:41PM

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Richard Cheshire 3 March 2026 7:18PM

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Being new to coding / python, I did feel like this helped me to understand the purpose of coding, and practice putting simple chains together. However, this course requires corrections and examples to compare your code to. If you complete an activity incorrectly from around activity 6&7, you simply cannot learn from it.

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