7 Best Applications Courses for Beginners
We compared 7 Applications courses currently listed on Udemy, Coursera and edX, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including RWTH Aachen University. 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
- 7
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Udemy, Coursera, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 7 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, Coursera, edX, matched to "applications" 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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Javascript - From Beginner to Pro-Build real world JS apps
*** Brand New Course Updated in Septemper 2017 *** *** More than 38,000 students. Students from over 167 countries. 5 star ratings and you can see what other students have to say in the review section. Stop Thinking! Tak...
$189.99listed price -
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Fundamentals of waves and vibrations
Offered by École Polytechnique
See our course teaser on http://goo.gl/SU25sF Waves are everywhere. On water of course, but also in the air as you hear a plane, and under your feet during an earthquake certainly. Vibrations, too, are everywhere In your...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Industrial Image Processing
Offered by RWTH Aachen University
The MOOC teaches the basics of industrial image processing - the hardware components, common algorithms and applications.
$149.00listed price -
4
Java Programming for Complete Beginners
Do you want to learn how to code and land a cool Java programming job? Java is a really popular language for creating applications and websites. It's awesome because the code you write can run on any computer. Now is a g...
$19.99listed price -
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Complete Python Programming 2020: Beginner to Advanced
Above and Beyond of Python Programming..!If you are a beginner but you want to be advanced in Python, and if you want to develop your skills and become master of it to do Machine Learning, Data Science or Artificial Inte...
$199.99listed price -
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Microencapsulation 101: Introduction to Microencapsulation
Welcome to the Basics of Everything 101!This course will teach you a lot about Microencapsulation and answer those questions of you.What you will learn?What is Microencapsulation?When / How was Microencapsulation process...
$199.99listed price -
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Raspberry Pi for Beginners
The course is covered keeping in mind for students who want to start programming on Raspberry Pi.You can know various applications of Raspberry Pi.Also those who like to play Retro games like Mario, Galaxy, Atari games c...
$19.99listed price
Best Applications Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Javascript - From Beginner to Pro-Build real world JS apps | Udemy | — | $189.99 | View → |
| 2 | Fundamentals of waves and vibrations | Coursera | École Polytechnique | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Introduction to Industrial Image Processing | edX | RWTH Aachen University | $149.00 | View → |
| 4 | Java Programming for Complete Beginners | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 5 | Complete Python Programming 2020: Beginner to Advanced | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 6 | Microencapsulation 101: Introduction to Microencapsulation | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 7 | Raspberry Pi for Beginners | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
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 7 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $149.00 — 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 Udemy, Coursera and edX. 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. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including RWTH Aachen University — 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 18 September 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.