Learner Reviews & Feedback for Python for Data Science, AI & Development by IBM
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it becomes easier wand clearer when one gets to complete the assignments as to how to utilize what has been learned. Practical work is a great way to learn, which was a fundamental part of the course.
The syllabus of the course takes you in a roller-coaster ride.\n\nFrom basic level to advance level and you won't feel any trouble nor hesitate a bit.\n\nIt's easy, it's vast, and it's really usefull.
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By Akshay N
•The coding was at a very high level. Not very useful
By Salvador C
•The content is abit outdated with links not working.
By idk
•Explanation not satisfactory
Animations are very bad
By Lukas H
•I would expect something like it is on Codeacademy
By Ashish D
•Only worth an introductory course.
Better avoided.
By Ritayan G
•Good for basics. I was expecting something else.
By KARTHIK S
•There is no deep contents for AI in this course.
By Rudy S
•Lots of typos in labs, which are not graded.
By Larry P
•so fast for a beginner to understand
By Michel R
•Exercise a little bit disappointing
By Jasper F
•the lab is not clear and missing
By Davide B
•to many time spent on IBM Watson
By MICHAEL K M
•Very confusing final assignment
By Sree S R K
•Very less content.No depth
By Saumya G
•Not very user friendly
By Mariano G
•poor instructing
By prattya d
•robotic teaching
By Yuhuan Z
•Too simple
By Kevin F
•Very basic
By Yuanjia Y
•too easy
By Samad R
•good.
By MANCHURI S R R 2
•ok
By prudgin g
•Lots of mistakes and imprecisions. In case of technical issues, staff will leave you alone with your problem after one formal and meaningless reply. The staff does not comment more than once on a topic, even if the issue is not resolved. Get ready to work through your problems with the help of a chatbot, that is in a beta development stage.
You have to deal with Watson studio in this course. Oh, this is such a pain... I couldn't even create a new project there dew to technical issues. After getting in a dead end with Coursera stuff I tried to use IBM support and that was so fun, just check it out:
reply1:
"Hello Alexey
blah blah blah
Regards Raino Soikkeli IBM Watson Services Support"
solution provided not working
reply2:
"Hello Alexey , My name is Nigel Terry and I on following up on this ticket as my colleague Raino is off-shift at the moment.
exactly the same blah blah blah
Please confirm and I will follow up accordingly. Kind regards, Nigel "
not working again. no wonder, he gave me the same instructions the first guy did.
reply3:
"Hi Alexey, Nigel and Raino are not available at this time. I also work with the IBM Watson Studio Cloud (WSC) team. I do not have access to your services (LOL, same as previous two guys), but I can list them.
exactly the same blah blah blah"
and not working again, to no wonder.
I am thrilled to find out how many people work at IBM
By Nicholas B
•I strongly suggest that you look into other providers for learning python for data science. As has been outlined by other reviewers, this is mostly a bad ad for IBM's Watson and there is little actual instruction for actually using Python. As a background I'm a EE with a lot of hardware coding experience (Verilog as well as Perl). I completed a specialization in Python from another provider and this gave me quite a bit of help as those classes were clear, with a good progression. In addition I've now written a bit of Python for work so I have a good base. This IBM course has, at best, cursory instruction on using Python, Numpy, and Pandas. The instructions are not clear, with poor sentence structure, and terrible grammar, making it difficult to follow along. Further, Watson is a confusing mess with instructions that use a prior UI, making it tough to figure out exactly what needs to be done to set up an environment. Avoid. Just avoid. Go to UMich or JHU. Anywhere but IBM. The only thing I *did* get from this class is that I don't want to go into Data Science: living in Jupyter notebooks is miserable. But then, I would also rather build things than write reports. Your mileage may vary.
By Felipe M
•Very poor quality. The videos are basically a sequence of slides with a lot of text information and simultaneous audio. Instead helping these two streams of information are actually competing attention from the student. The Labs are a joke. Typos, non functional code on the examples. Suddenly, exercises on the quiz go from extremely easy and nothing challenging to exercises with content not covered. In other words, if I really want to learn python I have to consult material, videos and good quality classes NOT provided on this course content and from other source, most of them FOR FREE. I wonder what the person who designed this course has in mind. I don't really expect someone will care about this feedback. I know it wont make any difference since you guys are making shit loads of money. At least EDC has balls to provide textbooks and a decent course structures with useful material. Shame I already spent my hardworking money on you and now I have to stay till the end.
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