You can study and learn Python for free under Codecademy’s free membership plan, but you need a paid Pro or Plus membership to earn a certificate of completion or a professional certification.

What it costs: Some online classes on Skillshare are free when you create an account, but most require a premium membership, which costs $99 annually or $19 a month.

The company has uploaded a 44-part series (!) to YouTube dubbed “ Python for Beginners,” which you can watch to get yourself familiar with the programming language.

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DataCamp DataCamp offers beginner-friendly coding classes and challenges in R, Python and SQL. Unfortunately, a free account limits your access to the first chapter of each course.

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Microsoft's new free video course helps aspiring programmers learn Python... and then build AI apps on Azure. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Sept. 20, 2019 at 4:12 a.m. PT ...

SEE: Getting started with Python: A list of free resources (TechRepublic Premium) Customizing class creation Metaclasses provide a way to customize class creation.

Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen ...