You learn some basic python coding skills. The pain point is the peer graded project where you have to sign up for an IBM cloud account and Watson Studio account. They are irrelevant to python skills. The instructions (how to set up the connections, buckets, servers, credentials, keys, etc.) are lacking clarity and have sizable gaps. I spent hours struggling with cloud which did not add value in gaining python skills. I would not recommend this course to people who want to learn python.

The course is too much thery based. Real life assignments and course work are almost zero. Libraries like Pandas and numpy are very importent but they covered it just for 5-10 minutes. and definately these are not complete. Also they did not work with any graph. Overall I was impressed with the first three courses of Data Analyst professional certificate but this most importent 4 th course just broke my expectations. Totally poor quality of work. I wish I could give zero star.

On top of the fact that the information in the videos and lab is presented in an incoherent manner (with multiple typos and unclear instructions), the course does not attempt to connect the various uses of Python with data analysis. The videos quickly explain what a certain aspect of Python does, then moves onto the next without explaining why the function is needed, how it relates to other functions, or how it can be used in the real world. I am going to ask for my money back.

being forced to take this for part of the IBM data analysis certificate, however this is way above my head. I dont plan on being a data scientist and dont have any prior knowledge of python. This course assumes you know more than you do and is nearly impossible. I used the quizzes only to progress in the course, and didnt actually learn anything. I will need to take a python for beginners course before being able to finish the final project for this course so I can pass it

I think it is OK when talking basic python programming but very poor when goes to pandas.

It introduce few function that pandas used. TBH, I think it is almost near no introduction.

Besides, the most funny thing is that the quiz covers some functions that never been introduced in course.

Finally, I don't understand why they continually try to introduce their walson studio during the course.

It just take a lot of time to interrupt studying and gain nothing

lots of errors, can't believe they want to charge for this. Requires signing up with IBM Watson for several exercises which I refuse to do (more than a little advertising going on here). I'm pursuing my programming objectives by downloading Jupyter Notebook tutorials. These are more convenient and of higher quality. After completing the Stanford ML course, this particular tutorial came as a real disappointment. IBM can do better.

I speak for almost everyone who's taken this course in saying that the final assignment was the absolute worst. It's terrible not because the concept was difficult (it's not at all), but because the assignment instructions were so convoluted that it took me at least two hours to complete even just setup. The assignment itself should not take more than 30 minutes. Please update the instructions for the final assignment. Please.

Pros: Good introduction course, thank you!

Cons: Typos after typos (from comments one could see many have complained about it, for a long time now). The instruction screenshots for setting up the cloud don't match the actual page, difficult to follow instructions. Occasionally outdated methods/functions, which have been removed from the latest version of Python. It's just not what you expect of a reputable company such as IBM!

Not only is there little to no help with this course, it is the most confusing course I have taken in many years. This is not an introductory level course but for someone who has some base understanding of Python. Do not take this course unless you have to, I did not come out of this course understanding much at all about Python. The modules for each 'week' , in particular the quiz/test are not helpful for the final project.

After I payed, the app they use, wouldn't let my into the labs. Even before that; the labs were full of programming errors. Usually in the most confusing areas. The app that bills me work fine though. Nobody to complain to. No way to ask questions. You can't revisit the problems. because they auto save your work. if you accidentally change part of the lab it is changed forever. All you can do is move on. Confused or not.

This is an awful course for learning python and data science. It moves quick through concepts, but worse it jumps through them and they are not tied together in any meaningful way. It appears to be a marketing campaign to get people to try IBM Watson services. I am grateful I too this course as a supplement after learning Python and Data science fundamentals otherwise I would not have been able to finish it.

While the course material is ok the final assignment is the most frustrating waste of time ever. Specifically question five which has you, a complete novice at python, attempt to upload your assignment to IBM's cloud service using code that is so complex that after 5 hours i simple gave up and submitted hoping hat someone would just pass me out of pity, Avoid this like the plague and go learn on codecademy.

Learn experience is very low. There is a lot useful content about python in the course. Unfortunately its basicly watching a video and later repeating it in the laps without relevant transfer.

The worst is the final assignment. It is nothing about producing somethin own. Instead you simply repeat given code. The forum is full of people struggling with it, although they do not need to programm on their own..

Course was taught well.

There were a couple times that I was extremely lost without direction.

If you look at the discussion, for week 5, everyone has the same question, looking for the location of the data for the final. You really have to dig to find it. Like they could have easily posted where the file/data was. I spent more time looking for that document than I spent doing anything else

You can pass 99% of the modules by running the pre-written code. There's limited options to meaningful engage with the course material and apply it except in examples. Al the mini tests are just pop ups from the lecture. Please set some progressive coding exercises that build on previous lessons rather than require us to recall something from the first module that we haven't used since.

Terrible course with ugly presentations and even mistakes in presented Python syntax. Moreover, there were logical mistakes in presented Python code (in conditional statements). I would be happy to add a screenshots here, so people could see how poor this course is!

So low quality course spoils the reputation of such brands as IBM and Coursera !

In general it is waste of time and money!

There were so many errors written into the “instructor” provided code, it made it nearly impossible to approach the quizzes/labs with any confidence. I’ve taken 7 online courses, some through Coursera, some through other providers and have always had positive experiences. This is my first bad experience. I will retake this class somewhere else starting tomorrow. I do not recommend.

This course could really do with a thorough review. There are parts that I think are good, such as the overall learning journey that has been mapped out, however, the multiple-choice exams are incredibly poor. Not only is there little proper assessment within this course, but there are also entirely incorrect questions. For a course I have paid for, I am very disappointed

I think this course desperately needs a refresh. From the videos you can tell it is older just from the slides. The quizzes are also a joke. This is a shock coming from the earlier courses where it was very well done. You can basically go through this course and learn very little. Why did I get an IBM badge for this course and not for some of the others? I don't get it.

This is a very poor course. The practice and final exams are offered in multiple choice format but the correct answer choices are not available. It will ask you a programming result question and then none of the multiple choices are correct and then you fail the exam. It is impossible to pass this course. I only gave this course 1 star because 0 is not an option.

While I appreciated the videos and hands on labs the final project was awful.

I don't know how a student can get 100% through all the lesson materials and it is repeatedly stated you aren't expected to understand all the complex programming and then the final project has no guidance and just throws you out there with no way to figure it out.

Very disappointed.

Full of typos, mis-transcriptions, looks like it was put together by a summer intern who never bothered to proof-read it before leaving to go back to college but IBM slung it up on Coursera anyway.

I was never under any illusion that Coursera had any notion of quality control anyway, but I would have expected IBM to have someone skim through it before selling it.

I honestly don't think anyone would be able to learn python from this course. Thank goodness I already learned python from somewhere else. I'd much rather learn python from someone like Corey Schafer or freecodecamp. There are some problems in the questions that obviously haven't' been addressed. The teaching method is just dull and doesn't go in depth.

Initial parts covering functions are good, but section in class,objects often does not explain certain steps. For example in week 3 assignemt for text exersice the solution contain commands completely unknown for the reader. That is they have not been covered or mentioned on the course.

The ideal course would not require user to refer to outside sources.

I found the speech way too fast-paced, examples poorly generated, the coding inaccurate and lazy. When giving a new skill, present the skill, then present opportunity to pratice . . . repeatedly. Also, seemed to jump from basic to decidedly not basic quite quickly, mentioning many tools and processes, again in rapid succession, without explanation.