Learner Reviews & Feedback for Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners by University of California San Diego
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I give this course 5 star because I did Bioinformatics I and I totally enjoy it.\n\nThis is where programming can be fun, and practical, and you'll learn some basic biology too.\n\nWhat's not to love?
I learned a lot from this difficult and time-consuming course! It covers biological concepts using Python. It made learning Python more interesting for me, since I have always loved biology.
326 - 340 of 340 Reviews for Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
By Víctor R D
•It has been the most stressful and frustrating course, certainly not for beginners.
By Spencer P
•Its called Bioinformatics for "Beginners", when it is still extremely difficult.
By Vidya B
•This course is not for begginers. please change tag line.but good to learn
By Jad A
•Takes A LOT more time than they say and the explanations aren't clear
By Vaishnavi R
•This course is definitely not for beginners.
By Lina S P R
•Is NOT FOR BEGINNERS, WAS SO HARD.
By Kaelyn B
•This course was supposed to be for beginners, but I found that this is not the case at all. I had to spend about 10 hours a week for about four months outside of the course using other resources to actually be able to complete it. The fact that each question in the interactive learner does not show the full code is extremely limiting and frustrating for people completely new to learning to code. I would not recommend this course to others as a result.
By Berea R A
•As a biologist, I find this course way more avanced than for beginners.
The Codecademy links provided are useful and do teach the basics of programming, however the Stepik tasks associated are far beyond what's explained on Codecademy, giving me the impression that to be able to pass this course you need to have a basics on programming more than on biology.
Mad respect to the biologists that are able to finish this course without going crazy.
By Georgios K
•This course is definitely not for beginners. It takes too much more time than it mentions and fails to guide beginners in the bioinformatics field properly. Would not recommend it at all.
By Nicolás F T O
•This course is terrible, it's poorly explained and it's by no means for beginners, a lie, I can't find a way to quit this course but if I knew I would do it immediately.
By Kushagra J
•The course is surely not for beginners and it takes a lot more time than 4 hours a week.
By Hesham A
•Not for beginners and the output window is badly programmed.
By Gamal A E N M A E N
•its not for beginners
By Jeremy L P
•not for beginners
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