It is hard for beginners. Especially for some who has no computer lesson background.

It has been the most stressful and frustrating course, certainly not for beginners.

Its called Bioinformatics for "Beginners", when it is still extremely difficult.

This course is not for begginers. please change tag line.but good to learn

this course is too tough for the python and bioinformatics beginners.

Takes A LOT more time than they say and the explanations aren't clear

Really not for beginners. Wish i would know this before engaging.

This course is definitely not for beginners.

Is NOT FOR BEGINNERS, WAS SO HARD.

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It is telling that the vast majority of 5-star ratings seem to come from people with a background in programming. For those of without any programming knowledge, the sink or swim format of this course is unhelpful.

I think I would have learned a lot if the logic of the correct answers to the programming questions had been explained more clearly, if at all. Looking at answers of other students, I often saw syntax that had not been introduced in the course yet. I had to unenroll because this was supposed to be just for fun for me and it was just a headache.

This course was supposed to be for beginners, but I found that this is not the case at all. I had to spend about 10 hours a week for about four months outside of the course using other resources to actually be able to complete it. The fact that each question in the interactive learner does not show the full code is extremely limiting and frustrating for people completely new to learning to code. I would not recommend this course to others as a result.

As a biologist, I find this course way more avanced than for beginners.

The Codecademy links provided are useful and do teach the basics of programming, however the Stepik tasks associated are far beyond what's explained on Codecademy, giving me the impression that to be able to pass this course you need to have a basics on programming more than on biology.

Mad respect to the biologists that are able to finish this course without going crazy.

You can't understand anything from the videos. It's written in the introduction of the course that no previous knowledge in coding is recommended, but when the course takes you to codecademy, there are no explanation videos just a bunch of complex words and paragraphs hard to understand. That's why I didn't understand Python therefore I didn't understand anything from the course. I wanted to unenroll but i couldn't

Terrible el curso, mucha información está mal, loe ejercicios pesimamente explicados. Si sabes copiar y pegar puedes hacer el curso.

No lo recomiendo para nada, es una pérdida de tiempo, todo mal hecho. un asco de curso.

This course is not a suitable introduction to Bioinformatics in my view. It's better to take a Python course and then continue with Biopython using the excellent Biopython Tutorial Manual.

This course is definitely not for beginners. It takes too much more time than it mentions and fails to guide beginners in the bioinformatics field properly. Would not recommend it at all.

This course is terrible, it's poorly explained and it's by no means for beginners, a lie, I can't find a way to quit this course but if I knew I would do it immediately.

I cannot learn and continue this course as I have little experience of programming, therefore, I find it difficult and too challenging .

The course is surely not for beginners and it takes a lot more time than 4 hours a week.

it is not for beginners i'm a beginner and it's really hard to keep up with the course

No hay traducción al español, aunque en la interfaz de esta página se mencione eso

Reading material just now video lecture in which tutorial present

Not for beginners and the output window is badly programmed.

I am a beginner and this is very difficult to understand.