The worst part is that no credit is given for very reputable MOOC's at all. A few years ago I took MIT's "Computational Thinking with Python" MOOC because I go

The worst part is that no credit is given for very reputable MOOC's at all. A few years ago I took MIT's "Computational Thinking with Python" MOOC because I got my high-school kid into it and wanted to go through it with him so I could motivate and help him. I even presented that certificate, and it was rejected: "We don't recognize MOOC's". The irony is thick and wide. And so, again, having, at the very least, done the MIT course they force you to undergo the torture of "Fundamentals of Programming" 1 and 2 and the other truly elementary beyond description stuff. This is truly frustrating. And support is useless. They take five days to answer any question and they must have so many students they have no time to pay attention to anything. I have literally received answers having nothing to do with my query. Considering dropping out before it starts. The idea of spending a year and a half "learning" about loops and arrays grinds my raw to the bone. At a fundamental ethical level it is, in my opinion, wrong.