I personally find that Brandon touches essential points very precisely and his lecture is more attractive compared to the other courses I took previously. Although the forth homework project was big jump, I learned a lot by debugging, testing, and practising.

also, the staffs in the discussion forums are really responsive and helpful.

overall, this lecture is perfect for someone has computational thinking or basic knowledge as Brandon mentioned in the beginning. Therefore, Brandon's precisely points save me a lot of time from repeating what I know already.

for students who has never touched computer language, it may be challenging and require lots of additional time to do research.

I really liked this course. The teacher's delivery was deadpan, and the information was broken into small bites, but he covered things that were not covered in the first Python course I took, and he got the information across in a way (for me at least), stayed with me. I also liked the quizzes, and especially, the homework assignments. The questions in the quizzes were well-written, and the homework assignments had me tackling progressively larger challenges successfully. Yes, I got stuck for a couple of days on one function in the final homework assignment, but I finally doped it out by myself and ended up feelig as though I'd really learned something.

This course was a great refresher to my skills as a graduate of a STEM program. I can easilly recommend this to people who are new as I could see how Python makes learning the basic concepts much easier despite mostly being refreshed on stuff I already knew.

Unless there is a need to install it on our own computers, make a practice test to teach us Jupyter notebook as the biggest hurdle other than the final was configuring Jupyter notebook in a way that I was comfortable with , I was not sure how much we would need the local install so I spent too long trying to set it up to my liking to find out we would just use it in browser from Coursera itself.

Great course for learing python. It's clear, concise and directly to the point. However, this means that if you struggle with a certain point in the lesson, there's not much explanation to help you. I've had to look up one or two concepts on forums for further explanations. If you're a fast learner, this will be great for you, however if you like longer and more in depth explanations you might want to find another course.

It's still a great course, the practice exercises are great and allowed me to challenge myself. If you're a fast learner and want a clear and fast paced course I would 100% recommend this one.

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and found it very informative. However, I faced significant challenges with the assignments, which I found to be quite difficult. I believe that incorporating some easier, incremental assignments throughout the course would greatly help in reinforcing and better assimilating the new information. A more gradual progression would enhance the learning experience and ensure a stronger grasp of the material. Thank you!

One of the best programming courses i've taken, very straight forward with quick information and practice to inmediately apply what's being taught. This course is quick, as it's intended for a Master of CS program for non-cs undergrads so dont expect to find all of the answers for the tests in the videos. They are challenging enough to practice the effective problem solving skills necessary for a career as a computer scientist.

One of the best MOOCs for Python here in Coursera. I am slow and have little experience. I have taken 4 introductory courses. This course is very concrete and slow enough for me to follow. The exercise is not overwhelming and very relevant to the covered material. The staff responded in a timely manner, 4 stars for this fact alone. (Many courses do not have a timely response.)

I give it a 5 star rating only as someone who is already fammiliar with another programming language and wants to learn python, because it really deserves it. For a new and complete beginner I dont think I can reccomend it unless you have steel nerves, an inquisitive nature and computational thinking as it gets pretty difficult on the week4 assignment.

I think this course is great to get started with Python. The homework is really good practice. I feel a lot more confident about docing now. However, the testing system in the homrwork is odd sometimes. The feedback from the automatic testing system isn't always useful, and it is quite hard to debug when you dont have a good feedback.

I had some basic Python knowledge going into this course, which I think made the course a bit easier, but overall, the course was really well done and provided many examples for each assignment. The help in the forums was outstanding, and the final project gave me a lot of confidence in my Python abilities.

This course was perfect in every way for me as a beginner from scatch. I truly feel i have learnt a lot since my first day. Concise concepts and productive learning environment. Creditable Quality teaching as well. In a nutshell, this free to learn course for the 4 weeks of time was worth it.

THANK YOU!!

This is the most useful Python course I have learned. The instructor explains the core knowledges breifly in a easy-to-understand way with the most typical examples. It is not like other course which have very long videos and distracts you with many unnecessary topics. I can't help in keeping learning it.

A world-class course with a fantastic teacher. Main distinguishing feature was the difficult assignment task. I was initially having a lot of problems with functions but after watching the course and clearing the assignment, functions is no longer a difficulty for me. Way to go Coursera and Upenn!

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. This course did an excellent job of outlining the fundamentals of programming and provided exercises to test the learning objectives. The exercises were appropriately challenging. The lecture material was interesting and perfectly instructive.

Generally very good. All material was well organised, well presented and excellent. I would add some content on high level concepts such as variable scope as well as opinions on coding best practices. A followup course for more advanced concepts/use cases would be even better!

Relatively fast, but well-explained and good practice exercises. I feel that I now have a solid grasp on the basics of Python. It did help to have a very basic idea of what programming is - e.g. to know about variables, loops etc., because this is not explained in depth.

There was very good instruction, the material was challenging and informative. I would have liked being able to interact with other students more for assistance and ideas. Using the internet for additional help and information was key to passing the final assignment.

Video lectures are concise but comprehensive (most 1-2min or shorter, rarely >10min).

Coding assessments are difficult but perfectly do-able and are grounded in real-life applications. TAs provide useful hints and assistance in discussion forums that can help if stuck.

This course was very well put together. The lessons and quizzes are though out and provide great opportunites for learning. The assessments are challenging at times, but rewarding once completed. I feel much better prepared with these Python techniques to continue.

Not a bad course. It is a little sparse in the beginning but the exercises were challenging and good. I would take py4e before starting this as py4e is truly for absolute beginners. This feels like a step harder. You can def do this as an absolute beginner though.

The course is great! Each topic is well explained. Examples, exercises and exams are very helpful to make sure we are understanding. The only thing I didn't feel comfortable with was the last assignment on module 4. I found it very complex.

It is a good course, it provides a few good homework for me to practice. Then the course gave you some hint for the homework, but it did not give you too much clues. In that way, it would help you to solve the problem by yourself.

For a person from a completely non-CS background, it was very easy to pick up Python programming from this course. It's very well structured, and the last assignment is the challenge that you need to test your knowledge.

Really surprised of course methodology. This is not a old-fashioned theoretical course. Lessons are well sum-up, and practical exercises and quizzes are not that simple. Finally, homeworks are challenging. So, thank you.

This introduction is really easy to understand. The attached codes benefit me by helping me try the actual function and relative retail introduced in videos. Overall, this course is highly recommended for tyros.