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Python
From your first print to classes and a sales-report project. Write, run, and get exercises graded instantly.
13 lessons26 exercises
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Phase 3 · Programming
Learn to program
An MIS student doesn't need to be a professional developer, but programming lets you analyse data, automate repetitive work and understand how the systems you'll analyse and manage are built. Start with Python, running right in your browser, or with Java if it's the language of your university's programming course.
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Java
Types, conditions, loops, objects and inheritance, always compared with Python, with predict-the-output and complete-the-code exercises.
9 lessons18 exercises
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Python or Java?
Both are useful for MIS, and the ideas are the same: variables, conditions, loops, functions and objects. They differ in style and use:
| Python | Java | |
|---|---|---|
| Best known for | Data analysis, automation, AI | Enterprise systems, banking, Android, ERP |
| Getting started | Very easy: short, readable code | Longer: types and classes from day one |
| Types | Dynamic: a variable takes any type | Static: you declare types and the compiler checks them |
| Helps in roles like | Data analyst, business analyst, process automation | Systems developer, technical ERP consultant, systems analyst |
Our advice: start with Python unless a course requires something else; it's the fastest route to something useful. If your course uses Java, take the Java lessons and lean on the Python comparisons in them.
The same program in both languages
Python
prices = [4800, 420, 1100] total = 0 for p in prices: total += p print(f"Items: {len(prices)}, total: {total}")
Java
public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { int[] prices = {4800, 420, 1100}; int total = 0; for (int p : prices) { total += p; } System.out.println("Items: " + prices.length + ", total: " + total); } }
Output of both:
Items: 3, total: 6320