15 Best Programming Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Programming courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $99.00. 8 come from a named university or institution, including Vanderbilt University, University of Colorado System and Duke 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
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $99.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "programming" 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 $49.00 to $99.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Programming with MATLAB
Offered by Vanderbilt University
This course teaches computer programming to those with little to no previous experience. It uses the programming system and language called MATLAB to do so because it is easy to learn, versatile and very useful for engin...
$49.00listed price -
2
More C# Programming and Unity
Offered by University of Colorado System
This course is the second course in the specialization about learning how to develop video games using the C# programming language and the Unity game engine on Windows. Why use C# and Unity instead of some other language...
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Rust Programming
Offered by Duke University
This comprehensive Rust Specialization from Coursera and Duke University, a top Data Science and AI program, provides software engineers, data scientists, and technical professionals with applied skills to leverage Rust’...
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Genome Assembly Programming Challenge
Offered by University of California San Diego
In Spring 2011, thousands of people in Germany were hospitalized with a deadly disease that started as food poisoning with bloody diarrhea and often led to kidney failure. It was the beginning of the deadliest outbreak i...
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5
Julia Scientific Programming
Offered by University of Cape Town
This course introduces you to Julia as a first programming language. Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language developed specifically for scientific computing. This language will be particularl...
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Python Programming Fundamentals
Offered by Duke University
This introductory course is designed for beginners and individuals with limited programming experience who want to embark on their software development or data science journey using Python. Throughout the course, learner...
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Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
Offered by University of California San Diego
Are you interested in learning how to program (in Python) within a scientific setting? This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you...
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MATLAB Programming for Engineers and Scientists
Offered by Vanderbilt University
This Specialization is designed for learners with little to no programming experience and teaches them to create MATLAB programs that solve real-world engineering and scientific problems. While the focus is on general co...
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Object Oriented Programming
Offered by Goldsmiths, University of London & University of London
In this 5-course specialisation, you will develop various C++ programming skills. Rather than building many small programs as you will in other courses, we have taken a different approach: you will create a single, exten...
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Expressway to Data Science: Python Programming
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
How many times have you decided to learn a programming language but got stuck somewhere along the way, grew frustrated, and gave up? This specialization is designed for learners who have little or no programming experien...
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Programming for Python Data Science: Principles to Practice
Offered by Duke University
Accelerate your journey as a data scientist with this data science specialization in Python. Designed for data science beginners, this course series helps you develop the skills necessary to effectively manage, analyze,...
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Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System
Offered by Duke University
Ever wonder how Netflix decides what movies to recommend for you? Or how Amazon recommends books? We can get a feel for how it works by building a simplified recommender of our own! In this capstone, you will show off yo...
$79.00listed price -
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Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Offered by Duke University
Learn foundational programming concepts (e.g., functions, for loops, conditional statements) and how to solve problems like a programmer. In addition, learn basic web development as you build web pages using HTML, CSS, J...
$79.00listed price -
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Programming for the Internet of Things Project
Offered by University of California, Irvine
In this Capstone course, you will design a microcontroller-based embedded system. As an option, you can also build and test a system. The focus of your project will be to design the system so that it can be built on a lo...
$69.00listed price -
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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
Best Programming Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to Programming with MATLAB | Coursera | Vanderbilt University | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | More C# Programming and Unity | Coursera | University of Colorado System | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Rust Programming | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Genome Assembly Programming Challenge | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $99.00 | View → |
| 5 | Julia Scientific Programming | Coursera | University of Cape Town | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Python Programming Fundamentals | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | MATLAB Programming for Engineers and Scientists | Coursera | Vanderbilt University | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Object Oriented Programming | Coursera | Goldsmiths, University of London & University of London | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Expressway to Data Science: Python Programming | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Programming for Python Data Science: Principles to Practice | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System | Coursera | Duke University | $79.00 | View → |
| 13 | Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS | Coursera | Duke University | $79.00 | View → |
| 14 | Programming for the Internet of Things Project | Coursera | University of California, Irvine | $69.00 | View → |
| 15 | Introduction to C++ Programming and Unreal | Coursera | University of Colorado System | $49.00 | 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 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $99.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $50.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. 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. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 8 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Vanderbilt University, University of Colorado System and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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