Spoiler alert: I might have discovered Coursera through some Access
Now email I received. Coursera is the online educational learning site
that offers the amount of courses you can choose to learn. It's
basically allowing you to mimic the university experiences and useful
for any student who hasn't gone to the university yet in the future.
It's available globally but it is banned in some of the countries for
reasons unknown.
This course is about the basic game design kind
of programming in Python where you write in the respective codes that
will make the games work. It will start off from the console level to
the GUI level. And as you progress through the course, there may be
various functions you will need to learn so that you can use them in the
mini-projects. Speaking of mini-projects, the further parts of the
courses were tough for me that I needed some help from the internal
forums for solutions. Unfortunately, I followed the solutions with like
either minor or major modifications to them to make things more
original. But the difficulty was what I had like the lesser amount of
original codes in the first place for further mini-projects. Besides
mini-projects, there may be quizzes/homeworks to do in Coursera as well
as the lectures to take a look at. Just like the actual universities,
there may be slides and videos of the lectures which can be found on the
internet. Hell, certain universities have their official YouTube
accounts and they have the video lectures like that. Overall, even
though I failed some of the mini-projects, I still managed to pass this
course with 74%+. By getting 70% and above, I got the Statement of
Achievement. Another certificate upon fulfilling this is optional but
then, you will need to pay some money for that.
However,
you may notice that the final average score for this course in the
illustration is inaccurate but the way I calculated was that I totalled
up both Quiz Scores and Mini-Project Scores respectively before getting
the average scores for both of them. After that, I got the final average
score of two averages but that's not the point because the full quiz
score is about 1/3 of the total course score with the mini-project
having 2/3 so their calculation must be quite deep for that.