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This Course takes a very hands-on approach to make students learn and gain knowledge of the concepts. It may even become very difficult for the beginners who are just starting on python or computer programming. The Videos covers all the basic details and concepts but as a student you have to do a lot of work by going through the cheatsheets and links they have provided to external sources to actually gain indepth knowledge. You have to put a lot of effort into studying the concepts if you want to complete the course exercises. It may not be ideal for most of the beginners. But if you are willing to learn and work your way through all the error and difficulties you face then it's a good way to learn the concepts and it's gonna take a lot of your time. This way of learning may not be to everyones liking.

The main instructor Roger is clear & to the point & doing a good job. The main problem with some parts of this course ( like the previous one ) is still a significant gap between the material learned & some of the quizes & graded assessments. It DOES look like there was an effort to close this gap with certain modules of this course when compared to previous course ( Crash course in python ) . However, MUCH more practice is required, definitely for those who are new to programming & programming concepts. The practice should be embedded within the course. I would say it should be about 20% learning new material & concepts & then 80% practice.

The course is super useful. Instructor is professional and engaging. Bash scripting and testing parts were extremely pleasant surprise.

Qwiklabs labs are fun and exciting.

Two issues with the Qwiklabs tasks though:

(1) Some tasks have literally all code there. You would be able to just copy-paste it.

(2) The tasks that don't have all code are super fun, but the way they are graded is sometimes not 100% great. In my last lab I got everything working as expected, and system still graded me incorrectly. Thankfully, I was able to talk to Customer Support (very useful feature), and they checked me manually, and agreed my task is done.

It's been wonderful journey learning interacting with OS using Python. I learned many new concepts like Bash scripting, How Python helps in providing the modules to test the scripts, Regular Expressions to process the text. Everyday I am adding a new tool into my IT skills bag.

The most appreciable part of the course is assignments and grading tests, which allowed me to explore different ways to solve a problem.

Sometimes, I felt like the explanation is bit fast. As it is an online course and I have the option to repeat playing the videos, it didn't bother me much.

Nevertheless, it's been a wonderful journey.

Thanks and Regards.

Overall I really liked experiencing Linux and Python in cooperation. But I don't think that Qwiklab assignments were enough ... I mean there could be more helpful than what it is. Also, I think the course was a little theoretical than experimental. Although one of the pros of the course is Qwiklab, it's its coin also. connecting to Qwiklab at least for me was slow and sometimes my IP got blocked by google, (don't know why!!) and consequently couldn't connect to Qwiklab. I should mention the great 24/7 support. When I hit the problems, they were always there for helping me.

Good at explaining hard to explain topics. A massive difficulty spike after the first course. Point deducted for 2 things: - After the first Qwiklabs assessment I think it would have been fine to use the approach the later labs, where they show you the tools you need and have you put them together yourself. - The "cheat sheets" weren't cheat sheets and just linked to the official documentation, unlike the first course which did a recap of what the videos taught (these cheat sheets were massively helpful)

Course has a lot of good information. However, it is kind of hard to keep up a lot of times because the instructor does not explain where things are coming from. For example, when using a pre-written file it is not mentioned a lot of times, so the student is left wondering where did that come from (Check the discussion threads for the first weeks). I'm sure it's not the instructors fault, he's probably just following the curriculum. Great course anyway

The transition out of Qwiklabs felt clunky. Likewise, up until the final qwiklabs tests, it was mostly copy and paste. Finally, the qwuiklabs "check my progess" button, could have provided a bit better error messages. An example would be "Missing files checked" or "Error in Files Checked". Just something where I don't have to blindy go back through all the steps and my code to find the error, rather than spending my time figuring out how to correct it.

You learn a lot of useful things like regular expressions as well as about software development in general such as testing. And the course is motivating. Thank you for that! But I was a bit disappointed by the Qwiklabs because in the first ones all you need to do is copy and paste. The last two ones, however, suddenly are extremely difficult. IMHO an intermediate difficulty level in all Qwiklabs would result in a better learning experience.

This is a great initiative. But in terms of how to set up online learning to make it frustration free for users you have ways to go. The road to here was bumpy because you did not adhere to the most basic rules of transitioning from repeating to autonomous usage of acquired skills. Please do a better job in setting up these courses because what you are doing is so important and will help a lot of people if done right

Generally worth doing, good subject matter, fairly useful examples etc.

Grading / project marking tool is really pedantic and doesn't have useful feedback which can be frustrating (you have to figure out problems via trial and error) but overall pretty well put together course.

I find the lecturer "You're doing great! Wow! Have a gold star" bs pretty annoying and pointless but you can always fast forward.

Firstly, this course has given me an intermidiate knowledge on using python to interact with the operating system. Nevertheless, this course is Linux-oriented (so be ready to spend some time trying these concepts on your own Windows/MacOS machine). Plus, final assignments in Qwiklabs were a little bit tricky...

Anyway, I'm happy for taking this course and eager to continue my journey in the IT world:)

This course was really nice, and definitely cleared some of the major key concepts of automation. It was very exciting to solve the questions given here and instructor was also very clear and and the concepts were clear too. Now, they could have added a few more topics for which they shared cheat-sheet for and also qwiklabs sometimes gets really laggy. Other than that, this course is awesom

I'm giving this course 4 stars because it focuses on Linux more than Windows. I couldn't follow along with the part about Bash scripting because I was using Windows at the time. If you're interested in this course, I highly recommend that you get Linux installed on your computer. (I recommend Kubuntu because it's a version of Ubuntu that uses the Windows-like KDE desktop environment.)

Very practical and useful course, it includes many real application examples. The instructor is great and very easy to follow, he speaks clearly and goes directly to the point. The only thing that i think can be improved are the first 5 labs, i think it will be better to not provide the whole answer to the challenges so that more effort can be put into getting the solution.

I learnt a lot of concepts through this course right from operating system concepts to bash scripting. It was challenging, but fun overall. The first couple of weeks were tough and I had to review the videos several times. The only thing I didn't like was that the cheat sheet as the end of the topics were of no use and could have been better. Other than that, great course!

In order to follow this course I needed to use the Linux terminal. Since I was using windows, I installed the Oracle VM VirtualBox and ran Ubuntu virtually. I think it will help you to follow the course easily with the instructor. The forums were helpful. The instructor explained everything clearly. The short and concise videos were good. The forum was really helpful.

The content is given to you in a clear, easy to understand manner, though it is pretty dense and requires a serious effort to master. I only recommend taking it if you already know other programming languages and are experienced in it. The final project was pretty tricky to pass and it is the very reason why I'm giving it a 4 star rather than a 5-star rating.

I thought the videos, practice quizzes, and Jupyter notebooks were excellent.

I found the graded assignments using Qwiklabs to be poor. Either you had nothing to do and were simply copy and pasting lines of code, or you had things to do, but the instructions were often unclear and covered certain concepts not discussed during the course.

The lab grading system is silly. Some of the labs are difficult not because of the content, but because they randomly expect you to do things that they don't explain need to be done to get the marks, like if your script runs perfectly you won't get the completion check unless it's named something specific without being told.