Introduction to Programming

Welcome to the Introduction to Programming course. This 5 ECTS course teaches you the fundamentals of programming in Python — from writing your very first lines of code to reading and transforming real-world data.


This course is currently under development. If you are looking for the Summer 2026 version of the course, you can find it here.

Course Parts

We recommend starting from the first one, but you can also browse around.

Making Decisions

Learn to write small interactive Python programs that work with values, perform calculations, make decisions, and explain their behavior.
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Repeating and Remembering

Learn to repeat actions, work with strings and lists as sequences, and build programs that remember and process several values.
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Building from Pieces

Learn to divide programs into functions with clear responsibilities, validate input, and test whether individual pieces behave as intended.
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Organizing Data

Represent named information with dictionaries, combine records and grids, and use functions and tests to check how structured data is processed.
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Persisting and Sharing Data

Read and write text, CSV, and JSON files, validate external records, and separate persistence from the calculations that use the data.
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