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Overall good course, and definitely only worth it if you go through the series as everything does build up nicely.

I do find that the professors spend a little too much time being repetitive on basic ideas and concepts. We are all watching this on video, so we can always replay something if your explanation doesn't make sense. It would be more valuable to have more examples than to have you repeat core concepts in multiple lectures. I basically watch the videos on 1.5x or 1.75x speed to get through these and get to the examples. The practice exercises are then more valuable.

I also could benefit a little more on clearer guidance on the final project. I really like the approach of breaking it down, but I do better if I have an understanding of the big picture first, then start to break it down. This was a tough one with the 'cached' data, but I understand the rationale for it, but it made it more difficult to troubleshoot the almost secretive error messages that I was receiving.

The title is misleading, you only learn how to collect data from the API's in this course. For a course called data collection, we don't have much practice collecting data except the final project. The course is good if you are here to get a basic understanding of the subject and already posses some elementary programming knowledge. The online textbook is nice (It automatically grades assignments and provides instant feedback) however, for me, the daily practice exercises always comes from the first specialization course. Furthermore, if you accidentally click out of the page or time out while doing the final assignment the online textbook doesn't save your answers so you have to start over.

Loved the course. I learned a great deal. Now I need practice to review all the topics. My only complaint would be the final project. The whole requests_with_caching thing was a mess. I would recommend that you just have students obtain the api keys necessary and then write the code with requests. Also, I spent hours trying to work out why I was getting errors when I needed to use http instead of https. https was used in all the examples so students would obviously use https. That one cost me a lot of time and despair.

I would have given this course a 5-star review. However, I feel this is the time when the students should also be exposed to full Python environment through one of the IDE's and not just Runestone. Things need to get real and I still do not have 100% confidence in venturing out in the real world applications. I had downloaded a well known IDE in parallel to Course 3- Week 3 runestone. Although my Runestone environment practice and progress are fast, I am feeling miserable in the standalone IDE.

The course is very useful for beginners. I learned a lot of new things although not 100% especially after completing the project course. But still I would say close to 80-90% of the material. The project course had a good content but the bugs made it a mess. It was frustrating at times. So, I am giving it a 4 star or else I am thankful to the professor for teaching the content in a very lucid manner. I hope for more intense courses on python in the future.

First 2 weeks of the course were great but week 3 was confusing, boring, and with a lot of text and not enough practice. It took me a while to find strength and go though final assignment. It was painful experience since Runestone interactive is not suited for debugging very well and this assignment required a lot of debugging. Anyway, I am happy I am done with it and moving on to a next course of this Specialization.

I would appreciate it if the Course held your hand less. In the final project I should have had to figure out how to make the ranking program on my own without being walked through the steps. The global logic is often more difficult then getting the functions to work and I feel like i'm not prepared for writing programs on my own that have more than a couple lines.

Other than that it was great.

The Final Project, should not be based on a module that is not standard in Python. I ran the project with the standard module (requests) and it went fine. But when I try to do it with the non-standard module (requests_with_caching) things went south because I had to find-out how it worked, what the parameters were, and so on, with NO-DUBUG tool. Horrible!!

The testing in the final project was really confusing as the same code got correct answers in some questions and not in others. Particularly frustrating was the tests that called a function in the function being tested. This was super hard to debug as the error messages prevented me from seeing what input was being used by Runestone's testing.

The only reason I don't give this course 5 stars is some of the limitations of the Runestone learning environment. There were times I wished I could run some of the code in a seperate environment for troubelshooting and practice but for some exercises this wasn't possible. However, overall I found the course to be excellent.

The videos and corresponding textbook is awesome as ever, but I have a small suggestion. If the APIs in the final project can actually work to retrieve data from the internet, that would be most exciting because I would be really using it. But within cache, I can only search for a few things.

The final on this one was a mess. You could not move the code out of runestone and it was impossible to step through in codelens. So, if you got stuck, good luck getting past it. I really enjoyed the assignments and videos, super helpful. Just didn't like the final.

This is overall an excellent course, although the last assignment was significantly more difficult than the assignments in the previous courses. Also, Skulpt posed a problem because it has limited imported ability. But I would still very much recommend this course!