Thanks teachers!!

Very good course

A little hard.

a bit easy...

Good course !

Nice course.

Good course

good

nice

Good

good

ok

After 3rd week, ok, but could do much better. The professors are good and do their best to be informative. I think the videos do a good job of explaining the content being presented. The major problem is when it gets to the exercises at the end of each week and before the quiz. I found myself totally lost on these. I watched the videos just about every day and stayed engaged as much as possible. Once the exercises came up, it was as if I had not learned a thing and I did not even know where to begin on some of them. The fundamental flaw in this class is lack of practical application between each lecture with exercises to stimulate learning of the subject matter. Going through a video and explaining apparently did nothing for me. There absolutely needs to be more exercises interspersed between the lectures. I fear that the next weeks are going to really throw me off, and I do not have time to go back and review all the past weeks. My other suggestion is that we are all not mathematicians taking this. Focus less on things like Collatz conjecture, especially in quizzes. I have no desire to try and learn some complex mathematical equation I will never use in real world scenarios in order to pass a quiz.

This course is a fair introduction to Python. I found the format of a combination of video, readings and exercises to be effective, and about average quality for a popular MOOC. The two instructors were articulate and showed that they wanted to impart their knowledge. Points go for developing the final assignment for a previous session, being rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. As well I'd like to share some (mostly minor) negatives. First of all, I needed to invest about double their advertised weekly time commitment of 5 to 7 hours. I would have found it helpful to get feedback on submissions, and would have preferred a peer-marking system. Finally, I think the software for marking the final project is problematic. In our case it could give a grade of zero for the entire project if you did not answer the first question correctly - and the final counted for 55% of the grade. (Ask me how I know).

Everything was good until the project where the testing mechanism is absolute poopoo. I had to suffice problem 4 and submit just problem 1,2,3. This was because the testing program simply couldn't process the code functions within problem 4 despite using the same functions in problem 3 which worked. The reason it didn't process was because the testing mechanism aborted the grading due to taking "TOO LONG". Is that suggesting that my wifi or connection isn't good enough. Also the fact that if your code is too long (more than 200 lines for looks), it wouldn't process, was very dumb to say the least. The skills I gained were no doubt useful but that fact that I could have easily scored 98% or higher and having to deal with an 84% due to the testing program is really pitiful. Who knew that my first non-A (92%+) course would be a course in python essentials :p. (Co. sch of Mines student)

I have fully completed all 4 modules.

The Good: I very much like the fact that the lecture videos themselves are relatively short and cover little material. It covers just enough without being overwhelming.

The Mediocre: The lectures of these professors don't explain the material as well as other courses that can be found both on and off of Coursera.

The Bad: The exercises are written poorly. They contain spelling and grammatical errors and some simply don't do a good job of being clear about what they are asking you.

The Verdict: There are definitely better Python 3 beginner courses out there, but if you're like me and like learning at a slower pace and have some prior experiences with learning Python then you can probably manage to navigate the course. 3/5.

The lectures of the topics covered are quite good, as well as the exercises and final Project. However, I'm sure that the course does not cover lots of additional basic concepts. I expected to have had an extended view of these other concepts. In conclusión: the course it's good if you don't have previous experience with programming. If you already have experience with other languages, the course it's too much basic.

CodeSkulptor is using a VERY out of date version of python. I couldn't find it documented exactly which version it was using, but I had to rewrite code many times because the modules/functions I had used were not available. Based on those modules/functions availability, I can say that it is less than 3.7.

The course is very good as well as the topics are nicely explained. The only problem I found is that the level of questions in the weekly assignments are pretty high in comparison to the video lectures that are taught

Great course for the basics but you end up spending more time trying to figure out their required styling than actual coding when in industry your employer will likely have an entirely different style.

I hope there is a Jupiter notebook inside the course. If the course actually force you to complete the programming exercises with test cases provided it will be better.

The course was really great and the instructors are really cool!

The only problem being the over-stubborn and strict style of final assessment.

the course needs more practices in the learning session but its straightaway leading to large projects and its very difficult for a beginner.

The course didn't cover all of the essentials for python programming in my opinion. Missing for loops, lists, etc.

A fairly good course for the beginners of python but I think there is more to teach for a beginner.