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.

In a peer-graded assignment, the course is teaching new concepts such as the use of bokeh library, boto3 etc. The course isn't even teaching the basics of the same. I have struggled for like 3 days to solve a couple of questions. Moreover, response time from teaching staff/instructor is too high.

Course could have been better.

The instructions are not clear at all, if you do not have prior knowledge of Python, it's going to be a loooong, annoying, despairing ride. The explanations are not deep enough. You could add 15-20 minutes video instead of 2-3 minutes cameos to explain the basics clearly. This course was a nightmare, I studied from youtube.

The worst course I've taken on coursera thus far.

From week 3 on the material is not well done at all and not accessible to beginners The discussion forums are full of people saying this over and over again. Very frustrating. I had to spend a lot of time on each concept learning it from other supplemental videos on youtube.

The course starts on a very basic level and with ridicilously easy exercises in the first two modules / weeks. The exercises of week 3 and later, however, are, at least in part, very tough and sometimes consist of topics that were not covered in the videos. Moreover, introductions are not always very clear.

2 months after I completed the course and I was trying to re-access some materials but was told the content was locked because my scheduled has ended. Posted on the forum but no one got back to me; also, I couldn't reply to my post in the forum: no response if I click the "post" button. All of a mess.

It is exceptionally poorly designed. Most of the time, the labs and the examples in the videos are the same. The explanations do not provide the logic behind but superficially talk about its function. I would not be able to learn much if I had stuck to this course as the only source of learning.

Content was not properly explained(Especially Module 5). Proper practice problems were not given. Lab exercises were not explained thoroughly and content in the labs was slightly different from content taught. The course used an AI voice (and probably script) for teaching. Would not recommend

The first week are useful, but the more you go on the more the labs contain a very advanced code, without a proper explaination of it. Furthermore, there are way to many mistakes in the labs for something that people pay 50€/month. I would not recommend it and I would not pay for it again.

The course content is very weak and not comprehensive . It does not teach through a step-by-step approach and is not easily understable. It does not equip one with the skills it claims to. I ended up having to take many other courses on other learning platforms which are much better.

This is not a course where they tell you the concepts of the Data Science behind or make you learn Python with multiple assignments. It is more of getting userbase to make use of IBM's cloud.

Nothing much taught in this course. I could have better utilized my time learning myself.

Lab tool broke part way through. When I completed the course (which was pretty much useless with out the Lab tool), it says I can now view my certificate, but no certificate shows up in my accomplishments. Coursera customer services was terrible. Never using Coursera again.

This course was not well sequenced. The labs demanded work outside of the class to complete. I bought a python text book and had to supplement my learning with the instruction and exercises provided by the book. As a teacher, I found this course to be poorly organized.

Not geat. Poor audio quality in videos. Multiple typos in videos (slideshows) and even on the jupyter notebooks. Honestly, I wish I would have taken another course from the beginning. I cancelled as soon as this course was finished and I'll be taking a non-IBM course.

Horrible! Title looks great on a resume but content is very disappointing. Videos are text-to-speech, peer review for assignment, no instructions for using Watson project, outdated instructions (when your browser accepts to show you the instructions), a nightmare.

Why are you asking my to submit a government issued ID when I was not asked this question for all my other courses? Why are you not providing me the name of the third-party ID collection app, their privacy policy or their terms of service? What is going on?

Everything is very rushed. One sped up lesson on the fundamentals of Python, and then jump straight in into the more difficult stuff. There's also no clear example of what is being taught. Also between every lesson, it feels like something was skipped.

The final assignment has totally incomplete information and I wasted a lot of my time figuring out things like data set, dashboard etc which are the details usually well defined in other courses. Really a bad assignment formation. Needs fixing for sure

I felt that the course material was written/put together by people so well versed in Python they've forgotten what it's like to not know it. The material was hard to digest, poorly presented, the audio was too fast - in general disjointed.