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Final project was not well defined and had misleading information in the project requirements. The course provided "mechanical steps" and should have provided more resources on the purpose and theory behind the implementation of the API with better overviews of functional flows and API interrelationships. There were many students (as is evidenced in the forums) who struggled with the final project.

The course needs to be updated.

Up through the IBM Applied AI Professional Certificate the courses had a few minor bugs. However, after spending the time to work on the full accomplishment you hit Course 6. The guidance, coding, etc. is so buggy and error-ridden as to require a much longer time to attempt to figure out what you have to do to work around their system. I thought perhaps I was having issues on my end until I started going through all the messaging associated with the EXACT SAME ERRORS and it looks as if a number of people who attemted to get through it finally threw up their hands and walked away. I would think these would be recent as just the last week IBM announced the depreciation of much of the capabilities used in the course - but the messages have gone back years.

The result is that I had looked to the Watson platform as a solution in my industry - now I may start looking elsewhere. I just hate throwing away all the time I spent up to this course.

-signed: I used to have hair.

This course is extremely outdated and a big waste of time. What screenshots that are present are not accurate, and because of this the labs are difficult to follow. When complex concepts are introduced, they are mentioned with very little explanation or direction, and in week two there is a test on information that was never provided. It is as if half the course lessons and explanations are missing. It also is using outdated services that are about to be obsolete. This is how AI was approached 6 years ago, and is barely applicable now. If I were to reference this material in a job setting I would look foolish.

I liked the course but after all the work I put into the certificate program, 5 out of 6 classes done, the IBM Discovery tool said I was over my limit and so I couldn't create the collection I needed for the last project without spending $500!!! on an upgraded plan for Watson AI.

This is wrong! I know of no way to even communicate this with anyone who can do something about it.

I feel I learned nothing of use for this course. Shure, the flask course was useful, but this course is just showing off what you can do based on the other one. Also, all of the Facebook stuff, if I need to do things like that, I will simply look it up, no need to remodel this step-by-step recipe into a course.

This course is less a course and more an advert to use IBM products. I've done many of these courses. This is the worst so far. But I needed the cert for my degree and another notch for the CV I guess..

Watson is very hard to use and very very slow. The interface to watson is a web of GUI selections which is bad in my opinion. A clear programmatic interface is better.

Horrible, does not teach you anything about AI except how to use Watson