[Free] Introduction To Programming

An introductory course that offers insights in Programming and Python – Free Course

Added on May 12, 2026 IT & Software 1 min read

Requirements

• No previous knowledge needed to complete this course. It is directed to beginners.

Description

This is an Introduction to Programming course for beginners. In this course I will cover the basics of programming, starting by what is a program. We will use pseudocode for this course, so you don’t need to worry about a specific language in particular and you won’t need to need the basics of any language to be able to take this course.

We will see different control flow statements that are widely used in programming, like the if and switch statements, as well as for and while loops. Finally, we will cover what in programming is called functions.

The knowledge you will get in this course can be applied to any programming language you are interested in learning.

This is the course structure:

1. Introduction to programming

   1. What are programs, how do they work

   2. What is pseudocode and why we are going to use in the course

2. Control flow statements

   1. What are control flow statements

   2. Comparison operators often used in control flow statements

3. Conditional control flow statements

   1. If statements

   2. Switch statements

4. Loops.

   1. For loops

   2. While loops

5. Functions

   1. What is a function

   2. How to use them

Once you finish this course, you should have basic knowledge that will be helpful to you if you are interested in learning any programming language.

Author(s): Estefanía Rodríguez Quirós