An introductory Coursera course, Part 1 of Algorithmic Thinking, focused on learning to reason about and design algorithms. It is one of several Coursera algorithms offerings the commenter lists for beginners.

Commenter lists it as one of several Coursera options for a beginner's introduction to data structures and algorithms, without singling it out.

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1. Strongly recommendschoikwar/programming2015in “Coding boot camps didn’t exist four years ago. Now 80 of them pull in $59 million a year, mostly from college grads”

   Shameless plug -- I've had fantastic learning experience from Coursera course "Algorithmic Thinking" by Luay Nakhleh, Scott Rixner, Joe Warren. https://www.coursera.org/course/algorithmicthink1 I did this while I was working as compiler engineer to supplement my CS knowledge. Suffice to say, it…

2. RecommendsConscious_Algorithmr/learnprogramming2023in “Coursera Specializations”

   I would definitely go through Rice's specialization because I think it approximates the kind of introductory challenge you'd get at a good computer science program. I am enrolled in the first course right now but unfortunately got a little sidetracked with a different course but I will be back. I…

3. Recommends-LOLOCAUST-r/webdev2017in “How to begin Web Development training?”

   Luckily you can learn from my mistakes. I'm about ~6M in F/T study. I got distracted by travel and crypto currencies but it's been a really enjoyable ride so far; just about to round out my portfolio before I start applying... The problem with online learning is over abundance of resources and…

4. Recommendsmindwise3750r/learnprogramming2015in “Anyone wanting to learn Python, this course is now open in coursera. It's looks like awesome.”▲ 1

   I took all 6 courses (it was only 3 courses back then), and I highly recommend them. I would add that the instructors are all very enthusiastic about what they do, and they were quite active in the forums, genuinely caring about helping the students and improving the course, which is not always…

5. Mentionsjenomesr/learnprogramming2015in “Self-teaching data structures and algorithms?”

   I would recommend a book called "Algorithms" by Sanjoy Dasgupta along with the challenges to company the book on rosalind.info.This up coming course also look very promising. https://www.coursera.org/course/algobioprogramming I have done the Bioinfomatic Algorithms Part-1 course on coursera and…

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