You'd be surprised by the fact that the most used languages of the world are no longer Mandarin, Spanish or English but programming languages running inside billions of computing devices. From automating your washing machine cycles to flying an airplane, they are increasingly becoming inseparable from our modern lives. Hence, it is so important that we know the basics of how the programming codes do what they do. Advanced programming is a different matter and can be pursued with specific interest. In this course, I have chosen Python programming language to show you how you can make a computer follow your instructions to perform various tasks. Python is loved by millions of learners for its simplicity. You will learn most of the topics with fun exercises with hardly anything to read. At the end of most chapters, we will work together to build simple apps that make use of the things learnt in that chapter.

With the availability of easy web development tools like Squarespace, Wix, Wordpress etc., anyone can design a simple website without a need to learn much. However, there are downsides to that ease. First, it is impossible to know how things work behind the scenes without learning the basics of HTML, CSS and Javascript. Second, your website is limited to the building blocks such tools provide. If your aim is to know how a website works, you need to learn the code that makes and runs it. In this course, you will learn how to build your own website from scratch using the essentials i.e. HTML, CSS and Javascript. For those of you who want to take it a notch higher, you will be able to build a Web Application using Node.js. This will not only teach you the design and interface (Frontend) but also make you familiar with the code that runs the website from the server (Backend).