In itself, a good course. If you want to take this course, I recommend it. If you are, however, taking this entire specialization I suggest you walk away. The final course (course 5) is a course by someone who has not been lecturing in the course, presenting something they obviously are very fond of. The course work is, and I quote, "a project with minimal scaffolding. Expect to use the the discussion forums to gain insights! It’s not cheating to ask others for opinions or perspectives". In other words, part of the learning target is to work through bad or incomplete documentation and to solve an exercise that is stated without providing the information you need to solve it. Unless someone else already went through the moves, the lecturer fully expects you to fail by yourself.

If I wanted to feel the pain of learning without help or instructions, I would have just worked with the online manuals ... which is what this exercise openly tells you they want you to do. Its a shame for the other 4 courses, which are well done and have passionate lecturers.

Most amazing course on object oriented programming in python 3.

This course was very basic. I expected more. I had already known most of the concepts.

No real examples, final project was so hard to understand. Better to do something not a game

Good continuation of the first three courses in this specialization. Clear introduction to classes, and nice survey of testing, exceptions, with a fun little game project at the end.

This course and the balance of courses 1-4 of the specialization were fantastic - I would highly recommend each. Course 5 (the capstone project) was an abomination. Basically zero instruction / guidance and very frustrating for anybody except decently experienced programmers. If courses 1-4 are your only exposure to Python, you could easily spend a month or more on this project. If getting the Specialization Certificate is very important to you, there are resources online that you can leverage to complete the project but that is done largely at the expense of any real learning, so I really hope UofM comes up with an alternative final project that is more consistent with the level of expertise attained in courses 1-5 (maybe something on implementing classic algorithms?).

Great Python course about Classes, Inheritance and Testing. Finishing project was incredibly cool and well put together just like the course. Also the Django sessions were a great idea to demonstrate the big picture of classes and Python programming just to give an idea how dots connect in the real world in different applications. I'm thankful for all these incredible courses UMICH Professors put together. Programming has never been this convenient, fun and stress free.

I like the final project a lot. Working through it helped to consolidate what I have learned from the readings and videos. Thank you, Professor Resnick, Professor Oney, Jackie, and others.

Just a fantastic class, really getting into and explaining some principles of Object Oriented Design. I was thoroughly challenged.

It was a great experience. I loved doing the assignments, they were so exhaustive and helped me clear a lot of minute concepts.

The material was interesting but I feel like it could have gone into more detail. It felt like something was missing. I did a lot of online reading outside the course. I didn't like the final project. It was very difficult trying to troubleshoot the modules in the final project. Of the four python classes in the series I have taken, this one was by far the most frustrating.

there's something wrong with assignments grading system and the problem descriptions are sometimes quite confusing

Too many weird untraceable problems with Runestone. Only one staff member participating in the forum. The material and instruction are fine but it's impossible to see what you did wrong on the final project - you don't know what the tests are, what line number is causing the problem, nothing...

This is a great class but the Runestone practice website is down way too often (several hours for several times a week as well as many nights and most week-ends). Those are the times when I can practice. Please get serious and keep your servers running.

PS: this is not a login issue. I authenticate from Coursera all the time.

I really like Prof. Paul Resnick and Dr. Steve Oney & Jackie Cohen. From Course 1 to this Course 4, I really had a good time learning from them. I saw from the review that the final course, Course 5, seems to be very different... I would be great if we could have the same faculty for the final one.

Great course! A month ago I still knew nothing about programming. Now I can try to understand and write codes for a mini game, which is super cool. Many thanks to the teachers and Coursera.

One of the best course I have ever attended. I really liked how challenging the assessment were. They really worked hard on their platform too. I highly suggest this course.

It was a great learning experience. A Heartfelt thankyou to the entire team for creating this great course as well as the wonderful Python 3 specialisation. thankyou !

One of the best courses I have taken so far. all the materials are very concise and helpful in understanding some daunting concepts

I really enjoyed this course and found it very worthwhile.

This course gives a deep understanding of classes

the final project was so cool

Great course

Very useful!

Well done course. Learned quite and reinforced things that I have learned in the pass.