Zsolt Gergely Horváth talks about how he used the knowledge he gained on Coursera in the Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) course.
I'd been considering a Coursera course called "Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)" for a while before I decided to take it. I haven't had much opportunity to work with scripting languages (apart from working with JavaScript), so I thought it would be a good opportunity to learn the basics of Python in an online course, on my own schedule.
Completing the course allowed me to learn the basic structures and features of the language in video form - particularly important as Python differs from the average C-style language in a few ways.
But I didn't just use my newfound knowledge in the Coursera course. Related to this, I had the most interesting experience of being able to try it out in a university course (Database Practice). Here the task was to produce a project work. On the one hand, the database had to be created and on the other hand the backend that communicates with it. The latter was written in Python, which meant that I could apply what I had learned in a live situation. This was also interesting because my end-of-semester grade depended on it. I felt it was risky to use such a fresh skill at a higher level than I had learned, but it paid off in experience and grade.
All in all, I can say that by successfully completing the course, I improved in an area that I had not known much about, I had the opportunity to learn the basics of Python and then put this knowledge into practice during the semester.
