JM
Aug 11, 2019
Very challenging, but good course. I've been programming in R for over a year, but there were still some things for me to pick up in this class. Assignments were a challenge, but satisfying to tackle.
EJ
Jul 11, 2016
Excellent course! I already knew a lot about R - but this class helped me solidify what I already knew, taught me lots of new tricks, and now I have a certificate that says I know `something' about R!
By Ryan S
•Apr 4, 2016
A bit of a deep plunge if you've never coded before, yet too shallow to satisfactorily introduce someone skilled in other languages to the many peculiarities of R. I don't envy instructors trying to balance these two needs in such a short time.
By Jiabao
•Jan 31, 2016
总体上来说,学习这门课还是有收获的,比如能用R进行一些非常基础非常简单的统计,会小有成就感。
但是,这门课的确不适合如我这样的没有编程经验的人学习。首先,这门课的课程内容感觉安排的相当松散,感觉各周之间和各个lecture之间都很跳跃。课程里面的一些例子也比较复杂。其次,就像讨论区的一些人所评价的那样,这门课的作业难度确实很大,而且和授课内容相当脱节。基本上,认真听了所有的授课内容,完成QUIZ也不成问题,但是作业难度还是很够呛的。
PS, 只有我一个人很不习惯老师讲话距离麦太近了嘛!!
By Sara A
•Mar 28, 2022
This course is a good one if you have a background in programming. But really challenging to those who come from other fields. If you have a life science background, I recommend you check out R or programming courses tailored for your field.
By Ashley B
•Aug 20, 2016
This course is very thorough, but I did not feel that the lessons often prepared me for the programming assignments. I found that I was frequently looking on the internet for additional resources and finding that I was definitely not alone.
By Sridhar
•Sep 6, 2018
The course material discusses basics and the quiz questions involve having to learn and implement much more than what is taught.
Taking a sample question(or something similar to what is asked for in the quiz) and explaining that will help.
By Luis A A R
•Jun 5, 2019
Los ejercicios prácticos no entran a tanto detalle como sí lo hacen las evaluaciones y son bien fáciles. Mejorando eso (un swirl package u otro adicional) la experiencia sería mucho mejor y verdadera sentiría que aprendí bien el curso.
By Stan L
•May 9, 2016
Course was good, but the material covered was at a fairly high level and done too quickly. This course could use some demos and since its a core foundation for the rest of the courses, maybe it should be a longer more in-depth program.
By Daran G
•Mar 11, 2019
I thought this course varied pretty widely between the basic, building block nature of the videos and swirl exercises and the difficult assignments. I did not feel as though the curriculum set me up to be successful on the assignments.
By Kilian H
•May 18, 2020
Difficult course. Prior knowledge in programming clearly a big help to adequately follow course material. If no prior knowledge is had, then following the lectures swirl exercises and completing the assignments is quite a challenge.
By Tarunoday S
•Jun 23, 2017
The assignments were much tougher that the teaching material.The lecture dont even cover lots of things that are required to complete the assignments.The lectures need to include more contents for the students to solve assignments .
By Chue J C
•Jun 11, 2017
Course is quite interesting. Swirl is a very good platform for learning. Assignments while might seem difficult, can be tedious, but still able to complete.
If one has background on programming such as Matlab it will certainly help.
By Valentina C
•Jan 30, 2016
The course is excellent and cover many tasks that usually you perform with R. However, on my opinion assignments are not really focused on the topic of the classes, they are not really explained and above the grade of the classes.
By Bhagavatula Y
•Apr 10, 2022
It would be better if applications on the explained concepts were explained. The lessons were easy but assignments were tough. This can be tackled if applications can be explained by taking an example. Lab hours can be conducted.
By Guilherme C
•Apr 3, 2016
Extremely hard programming assignments for people with little or no programming background. Even though these assignments were truly challenging and difficult to complete, the course complied with some of the proposed objectives.
By Meredith D
•Feb 13, 2016
The programming assignments are a great way to get your hands dirty with R, but this is not a course for someone without any prior programming experience, and I found the lectures didn't have much connection with the assignments.
By Nubeed U R
•Aug 17, 2020
There is a huge gap between the content taught in the lectures and what is tested in the assignments. Other than that, it is quite a good learning experience IF you have a decent amount of experience with programming beforehand.
By Inés M L
•Aug 9, 2020
Me ha gustado, pero creo que los vídeos serían mejores si se viera al instructor programando más a menudo, en lugar de solo teoría. Para las personas que no tenemos apenas experiencia en esto, resulta un poco difícil de seguir.
By Elizabeth A
•Sep 6, 2020
The course's program assignments could've been framed more clearly to understand better, especially the corr function in program assignment 2 and the last program assignment, overall the course was a good experience to learn R.
By Lee B
•Feb 20, 2020
Very challenging course for a beginner with well designed assignments. Terrible lectures however. Most learning is self led using Youtube and Data Camp. The supporting material provided via the discussion forums is very useful.
By Stephen O
•Jul 23, 2019
The course materials do not give you enough to complete the assignments. The coverage is only cursory and you need to do a lot more extra work and research to get even close to the standard required to do the final assignments.
By Sisi H
•Aug 22, 2018
It's a very useful class, but difficult without prior programming knowledge. A lot of things you need to know to complete the assignments are not covered in lecture. I spent a lot of time googling different pieces of knowledge.
By Martin E R S
•Jun 8, 2020
The course is good but the lectures seems to be a little bit disconnected from the assignments. I would suggest to include lectures more dynamics. Though, I learned a lot from the discussion forums and from swirl () program.
By Daniel M d A
•Jan 19, 2018
Too complex, not all people will use the specific things that you teaching in this course , but almost all the people will need to use some things that you not teaching here, like for example using external models functions.
By Am T (
•Apr 10, 2016
If you have no programming experience in R, this is not the course for you,
There is no link with the programming assignments and course slides.
But a practice assignment is proposed at the beginning of the course in week 2.
By Anand S
•Feb 26, 2016
Gets progressively tougher but loses momentum in the end. I highly recommend taking additional courses in R as the programming requirements are not exponentially increasing and by the end it suddenly peaks to a huge demand.