15 Best Scripting Courses for Beginners
We compared 15 Scripting courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 3 come from a named university or institution, including Rice University, Arizona State University and University of Colorado System. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, matched to "scripting" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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1
Introduction to Scripting in Python
Offered by Rice University
Developed by Rice University's world-class Computer Science & Data Science faculty, this specialization is intended for beginners who would like to master essential programming skills. Through four courses, you will cove...
$49.00listed price -
2
Perl for Beginners: Learn A to Z of Perl Scripting Hands-on
Welcome to Perl for Beginners: Learn A to Z of Perl Scripting Hands-on Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a dynamic, high-level, scripting (interpreted) and a feature-rich programming language with over 2...
$199.99listed price -
3
Python For Beginners: Scripting Programming With Python 3
Do you want to learn Python even if you are a complete beginner? Well then this course is for you!Hi, my name is Rangel and I am serving more than 30,000 unique students on Udemy. Together working with Taaha Waseem We ar...
$199.99listed price -
4
Introduction to Python Scripting for DevOps
Offered by LearnQuest
This course is the first course in a series that aims to prepare you for a role working as a programmer. In this course, you will be introduced to the five main concepts in procedural programming: user input, console out...
$49.00listed price -
5
Introduction to Python
Offered by Arizona State University
In today’s society, uses for new technologies are broadening in scope and revolutionizing the world. Many new technologies automate redundant tasks so people may complete tasks of greater priority. These new automated te...
$49.00listed price -
6
Introduction to C++ Programming and Unreal
Offered by University of Colorado System
This course is all about starting to learn how to develop video games using the C++ programming language and the Unreal Engine on Windows or Mac. This course assumes you have previous programming experience in some other...
$49.00listed price -
7
Python: A Guided Journey from Introduction to Application
Offered by Arizona State University
In today’s society, uses for new technologies are broadening in scope and revolutionizing the world. Many new technologies automate redundant tasks so people may complete tasks of greater priority. These new automated te...
$49.00listed price -
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Master CAL Concepts for Beginners to Advance
You will learn basics of CAL programming from basics to some advanced Topics. CAPL is a specialized scripting language created by Vector Informatik for developing, testing, and analyzing communication within Controller A...
$199.99listed price -
9
Full Lua Programming: Beginner to Pro in Roblox Studio
This guide is designed for everyone wanting to get into the realm of Roblox Game Development, Roblox Lua/Luau, and metaverse ventures! The videos are short, packed with knowledge and I like to show programming in a simpl...
$19.99listed price -
10
Introduction to AWS Pentesting
The AWS Pentesting course is designed to provide learners with the knowledge and skills required to conduct penetration testing on AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud environments. The course covers various topics related to...
$149.99listed price -
11
Qlik Sense For Beginner + Intermediate + Advanced(All in 1)
Today, we are all surrounded with full of data.Data can be in the form of structured data(eg: Tables, worksheets), or unstructured data (free text fields or comments from social media). An example of Data Usage is in AI...
$24.99listed price -
12
Complete Linux Bootcamp for Beginners
This course is teaches the fundamentals of linux shell using the terminal, some insight on bash shell and we will investigate various aspects of the shell, for example scripting, using utilities like grep and sed, C and...
$199.99listed price -
13
Learn Python for beginners with Projects
Python is a general-purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum during 1985- 1990. Like Perl, Python source code is also available under the...
$199.99listed price -
14
Python 101: Python for absolute beginners
Hi there,Welcome to Python 101 - your first step to learning how to program using Python.Python is in the top 3 most popular programming languages in the world. BIt's easy to learn, easy to read, and easy to write, plus...
$199.99listed price -
15
Windows PowerShell for beginners
PowerShell is a cross-platform object-oriented language and shell that IT pros can use to manage computers running Windows, Linux, and macOS. PowerShell can automate tasks across thousands of computers simultaneously. If...
$29.99listed price
Best Scripting Courses for Beginners compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Rice University, Arizona State University and University of Colorado System — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.