nice and tricky course as on date

Very good course for beginners.

I love the programming tips :)

a basic course about python

Sometimes too hard for me

it was a good experience

Excellent material

easy way to learn

Thanks teachers!!

Very good course

Helpful and fun

A little hard.

a bit easy...

Good course !

Nice course.

Good course

Perfect

good

nice

Good

good

ok

After 3rd week, ok, but could do much better. The professors are good and do their best to be informative. I think the videos do a good job of explaining the content being presented. The major problem is when it gets to the exercises at the end of each week and before the quiz. I found myself totally lost on these. I watched the videos just about every day and stayed engaged as much as possible. Once the exercises came up, it was as if I had not learned a thing and I did not even know where to begin on some of them. The fundamental flaw in this class is lack of practical application between each lecture with exercises to stimulate learning of the subject matter. Going through a video and explaining apparently did nothing for me. There absolutely needs to be more exercises interspersed between the lectures. I fear that the next weeks are going to really throw me off, and I do not have time to go back and review all the past weeks. My other suggestion is that we are all not mathematicians taking this. Focus less on things like Collatz conjecture, especially in quizzes. I have no desire to try and learn some complex mathematical equation I will never use in real world scenarios in order to pass a quiz.

I recently completed this course and found the overall experience to be somewhat underwhelming. While the technical content was well-structured and the explanations were clear, I felt that the course lacked a more interactive or guided component, especially during the exercises. There were several moments where I would have appreciated some form of real-time feedback or support. It often felt like I was working through the assignments in isolation, without a clear way to verify whether I was on the right track or truly understanding the concepts in practice. The course definitely has potential, and I believe it could be significantly improved by incorporating more interactive elements—such as mentor guidance, peer review, or integrated feedback during exercises. These additions could make the learning experience more engaging and ensure that students are not just completing tasks, but truly mastering the material.

This course is a fair introduction to Python. I found the format of a combination of video, readings and exercises to be effective, and about average quality for a popular MOOC. The two instructors were articulate and showed that they wanted to impart their knowledge. Points go for developing the final assignment for a previous session, being rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. As well I'd like to share some (mostly minor) negatives. First of all, I needed to invest about double their advertised weekly time commitment of 5 to 7 hours. I would have found it helpful to get feedback on submissions, and would have preferred a peer-marking system. Finally, I think the software for marking the final project is problematic. In our case it could give a grade of zero for the entire project if you did not answer the first question correctly - and the final counted for 55% of the grade. (Ask me how I know).