If I wanted to learn programming from scratch, I'd take this specialization. They are great teachers and the recursion section was extremely helpful.

Mini-projects hard and makes you wanna think all aspects which is a good programming practice. However, I believe theoretical depth is missing.

Great course! Each course is getting more challenging, and the way it is taught is simply great. It is easy to follow and still makes you think a lot. It is really rewarding finishing the mini-projects.

Great continuation of part 1, with a bit more "true" computer science techniques taught. Challenging (but fun) projects each week. Make sure you put some effort into the practice activities each week. These will help you understand the weekly material better and prepare you for both the homework and projects. two thumbs up!

Great course, I hope for more of this kind of courses. Invaluable skills gained from this course. High praise to all the professors. Thank You Very Much.

the last week is really challenging but l like it

Overall a great course, with a few glitches: 1. The tests for the homework are not working properly. 2. The amount of homework is a bit overwhelming for an introductory course.

17/5000

This course is of high quality but not friendly to Chinese students.

Great course.

projects are tough at least for me it was but once you finish all the project, that rewarding feeling is just awesome

wonderfully fun assignments!:)

Last one is killer... hardest one I faced on Coursera!:)

little bit hard to solve the assignment.

Even though it took much more time to solve the assignments and practice activity, this class was awesome.

Another entertaining and great course in the series with really well-designed and engaging projects.

I am getting sad I'm running out of courses to take from Rixner, Warren, et al. They are superb.

CodeSkuptor and OwlTest are really easy to use and handy tools (although I've had some issues with OwlTest not working all of the time).

I came to PoC Part 2 via Rice's IIPP courses and PoC Part 1. The PoC series is a step up in difficulty from IIPP. The homework assignments usually took me several hours to complete and the mini-projects all took around 10 hours (maybe more) to complete. If you have lots of programming experience, I expect the mini-project would take you less time, at least once you've conceptualized how to solve the problem/project. And it is this thinking - rather than programming - that is the main thing the instructors want students to take away from this course. In other words, this is not an intermediate Python course. But it is a great class. You'll get an introduction to searches, data structures, recursion, trees, and how to test your software. And like IIPP, the mini-projects are based a fun games.

Very enlightening. Excellent assistance from staff.

Excellent course. I tried several similar courses on Edx and Coursera platforms and found this as the most efficient. The lectures are clearly stated and always accompanied by reading material, which makes it easy to repeat the material.

Practical tasks are very interesting and help to develop practical skills.

It is a wonderful opportunity to learn Python and fundamentals of computing. I highly recommend this course to everyone interested in this subject.

great course - really gets you thinking about coding efficiently

very helpful course, the projects are challenging but interesting to work on!

Another fantastic course from the team at Rice University. The coursework is interesting and challenging, and I really feel I have learned a lot.

Mind blowing

The best course to study computer science for beginner!

Learned lots! One year down the line I was asked at a job interview about my past experience in python and gave this!

Great Course - learned a lot - Great Projects

Great course, but the final project in W4 is very long compared the rest of the projects in this series of courses. Content is still top notch though.

A rigorous, but short, computer science course. The projects for this class took widely differing amounts of time to complete. Some, I could do in a few hours. The more difficult ones, like the final project, took me days of thinking and coding to do. I highly recommend it, though. By the end, you'll be a much better programmer.