Finish the course. Keep the certificate.
Every Talk Python course ends with a completion certificate. Download it as a PDF, or add it to your LinkedIn profile under Licenses and Certifications, the same section as your degrees.
Certificates are part of the course, not an add-on. There is no exam fee, no renewal, and nothing extra to buy.
What you actually get
A single-page PDF, US Letter landscape, that prints without anything getting cut off.
- Your name, as you choose to have it appear. You confirm the spelling before the first one is issued.
- The course title and the hours of instruction behind it.
- The date you finished, taken from your own last activity in the course rather than the day you asked for the file.
- The instructor who taught it.
- A certificate ID, so a specific certificate can be pointed at rather than described.
How it works
Take a course
Any course in the catalog counts, including the free ones. There is no separate certificate track and nothing to enroll in.
Watch every lecture
The certificate unlocks once every lecture in the course is marked as watched. Not a percentage, not a quiz. You did the course or you did not.
Open your account page
Completed courses carry a Certificate button. That is the whole process, and it works for courses you finished years ago.
Download or share it
Take the PDF for your records, or turn on sharing and add it to LinkedIn.
Two things worth doing with it
Most people do both. They serve different readers: one is for the person who signs off on your training budget, the other is for the people who are not in the room.
Download the PDF
The file is yours. Attach it to an expense claim, put it in a review packet, or file it with the rest of your professional records.
If your employer reimburses training, this is the document they usually ask for. There is a pre-written expense request you can send them alongside it.
Add it to LinkedIn
One click fills in LinkedIn's Add Certification form with the course, the issuer, the date, the credential ID and a link that verifies it.
It lands under Licenses and Certifications, alongside your degrees. That is a permanent section of your profile, not a post that is gone from the feed by tomorrow.
Private until you decide otherwise
- Private by default. A certificate you have not shared has no public address at all. It is not listed, and it cannot be found by guessing.
- Sharing is a switch you throw. Turning it on mints a verification page at a long random address, which is what the LinkedIn link points to.
- The public page shows the credential, not your account. Name, course, instructor, date, hours and certificate ID. Nothing about what else you have bought or watched.
- You can turn it back off. The public address stops working, and a later re-share issues a new one rather than reviving the old link.
Good places to start
Every course in the catalog earns a certificate, so pick the one that teaches you something you need. These three are where people most often begin.
All 54 courses qualify, 286 hours in total. Browse the full catalog.
Common questions
Does the certificate cost anything?
No. It comes with the course you already bought. There is no exam fee, no issuing fee and no renewal, and it does not expire.
Is this an accredited certification?
No, and we are careful not to imply otherwise. This is a certificate of completion issued by Talk Python Training. It is evidence that you sat down and worked through a specific course, with the hours and the date attached and a link anyone can check. It is not a degree, a license, or an industry certification like the AWS or Microsoft exams, and nothing on it claims to be.
That is still the same thing Coursera, Udemy and edX certificates are, and it is what the Licenses and Certifications section of LinkedIn is full of.
What counts as finishing a course?
Every lecture in the course marked as watched. Your progress follows you across the web player and the mobile apps, so it does not matter where you did the watching.
If a course gains a new lecture after you earned your certificate, the certificate you already hold stays valid. It records what you completed on the day you completed it.
I finished courses before certificates existed. Do I get those?
Yes, and you probably have several waiting. Certificates are generated from your existing progress, so anything you have already completed is already earned. Go to your account page and look at your completed courses.
Do the free courses earn certificates?
Yes. Every published course is eligible on the same terms. A free course is a real course.
What name goes on it?
Yours, and you confirm the spelling before the first certificate is issued. The name is stored with the certificate as it was when you earned it, so changing your account name later does not quietly rewrite a credential someone has already verified.
Can my employer verify it?
If you have turned sharing on, yes. Send them the verification link and they get a page on our site showing the name, the course, the instructor, the date, the hours and the certificate ID. Nothing has to be requested from us and nobody has to email us to confirm it.
We are a team. Can we see who finished?
Yes. Team purchases come with a dashboard showing every student, how far each one has gone and who has completed the course. There is a free evaluation for teams if you want to try it before buying seats, and team pricing is published with volume discounts.
Pick a course and go earn one
54 courses, 286 hours, every one of them ending in a certificate you can hand to someone. The courses are yours to keep, so there is no subscription running in the background either way.