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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Python for Data Science, AI & Development by IBM

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About the Course

Kickstart your Python journey with this beginner-friendly, self-paced course taught by an expert. Python is one of the most popular programming languages, and the demand for individuals with Python skills continues to grow. This course takes you from zero to programming in Python in a matter of hours—no prior programming experience is necessary! You’ll begin with Python basics, including data types, expressions, variables, and string operations. You will explore essential data structures such as lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets, learning how to create, access, and manipulate them. Next, you will delve into logic concepts like conditions and branching, learning how to use loops and functions, along with important programming principles like exception handling and object-oriented programming. As you progress, you will gain practical experience reading from and writing to files and working with common file formats. You’ll also use powerful Python libraries like NumPy and Pandas for data manipulation and analysis. The course also covers APIs and web scraping, teaching you how to interact with REST APIs using libraries like requests and extract data from websites using BeautifulSoup. You will practice and apply what you learn through hands-on labs using Jupyter Notebooks. By the end of this course, you’ll feel comfortable creating basic programs, working with data, and automating real-world tasks using Python. This course is suitable for individuals interested in pursuing careers in Data Science, Data Analytics, Software Development, Data Engineering, AI, and DevOps and a variety of other technology-related roles....

Top reviews

JE

May 30, 2019

The cloud storage question on the final is just a ploy to get us to use IBM products and shouldn't be part of the grade. The course was a good pace and nice, slow introduction for new Python users.

PJ

Nov 30, 2020

It is a good course and teaches with the basic of Python so that anyone can understand it very well. Videos are good and can easily be understandable to anyone who is new to Python and Data Science.

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By Ryan G

Apr 27, 2021

I think this course desperately needs a refresh. From the videos you can tell it is older just from the slides. The quizzes are also a joke. This is a shock coming from the earlier courses where it was very well done. You can basically go through this course and learn very little. Why did I get an IBM badge for this course and not for some of the others? I don't get it.

By Leah L

Jan 29, 2021

While I appreciated the videos and hands on labs the final project was awful.

I don't know how a student can get 100% through all the lesson materials and it is repeatedly stated you aren't expected to understand all the complex programming and then the final project has no guidance and just throws you out there with no way to figure it out.

Very disappointed.

By David B

Sep 5, 2019

Full of typos, mis-transcriptions, looks like it was put together by a summer intern who never bothered to proof-read it before leaving to go back to college but IBM slung it up on Coursera anyway.

I was never under any illusion that Coursera had any notion of quality control anyway, but I would have expected IBM to have someone skim through it before selling it.

By Amin N

Jun 24, 2023

I honestly don't think anyone would be able to learn python from this course. Thank goodness I already learned python from somewhere else. I'd much rather learn python from someone like Corey Schafer or freecodecamp. There are some problems in the questions that obviously haven't' been addressed. The teaching method is just dull and doesn't go in depth.

By Ryskeldi A u

Feb 25, 2022

Initial parts covering functions are good, but section in class,objects often does not explain certain steps. For example in week 3 assignemt for text exersice the solution contain commands completely unknown for the reader. That is they have not been covered or mentioned on the course.

The ideal course would not require user to refer to outside sources.

By Bradley H

Jun 8, 2022

I found the speech way too fast-paced, examples poorly generated, the coding inaccurate and lazy. When giving a new skill, present the skill, then present opportunity to pratice . . . repeatedly. Also, seemed to jump from basic to decidedly not basic quite quickly, mentioning many tools and processes, again in rapid succession, without explanation.

By snehal b

May 7, 2019

In a peer-graded assignment, the course is teaching new concepts such as the use of bokeh library, boto3 etc. The course isn't even teaching the basics of the same. I have struggled for like 3 days to solve a couple of questions. Moreover, response time from teaching staff/instructor is too high.

Course could have been better.

By Heiko B

Apr 26, 2022

The course starts on a very basic level and with ridicilously easy exercises in the first two modules / weeks. The exercises of week 3 and later, however, are, at least in part, very tough and sometimes consist of topics that were not covered in the videos. Moreover, introductions are not always very clear.

By Hailu K

Sep 13, 2021

2 months after I completed the course and I was trying to re-access some materials but was told the content was locked because my scheduled has ended. Posted on the forum but no one got back to me; also, I couldn't reply to my post in the forum: no response if I click the "post" button. All of a mess.

By Bilge K

Jul 6, 2020

It is exceptionally poorly designed. Most of the time, the labs and the examples in the videos are the same. The explanations do not provide the logic behind but superficially talk about its function. I would not be able to learn much if I had stuck to this course as the only source of learning.

By Francesca M

Oct 26, 2022

The first week are useful, but the more you go on the more the labs contain a very advanced code, without a proper explaination of it. Furthermore, there are way to many mistakes in the labs for something that people pay 50€/month. I would not recommend it and I would not pay for it again.

By Martina Y

Aug 2, 2022

The course content is very weak and not comprehensive . It does not teach through a step-by-step approach and is not easily understable. It does not equip one with the skills it claims to. I ended up having to take many other courses on other learning platforms which are much better.

By Akshay G

Apr 19, 2020

This is not a course where they tell you the concepts of the Data Science behind or make you learn Python with multiple assignments. It is more of getting userbase to make use of IBM's cloud.

Nothing much taught in this course. I could have better utilized my time learning myself.

By David S

Nov 8, 2021

Lab tool broke part way through. When I completed the course (which was pretty much useless with out the Lab tool), it says I can now view my certificate, but no certificate shows up in my accomplishments. Coursera customer services was terrible. Never using Coursera again.

By Hilary M

Feb 10, 2021

This course was not well sequenced. The labs demanded work outside of the class to complete. I bought a python text book and had to supplement my learning with the instruction and exercises provided by the book. As a teacher, I found this course to be poorly organized.

By Nicholas B (

Jul 25, 2023

Not geat. Poor audio quality in videos. Multiple typos in videos (slideshows) and even on the jupyter notebooks. Honestly, I wish I would have taken another course from the beginning. I cancelled as soon as this course was finished and I'll be taking a non-IBM course.

By Marc L

Nov 11, 2019

Horrible! Title looks great on a resume but content is very disappointing. Videos are text-to-speech, peer review for assignment, no instructions for using Watson project, outdated instructions (when your browser accepts to show you the instructions), a nightmare.

By Donald v P

Jan 19, 2026

I find the labs for Python very un user friendly, it seems they are set up as modules to teach coding to people that already know how to code. I have had to go outside of the course to find information and do not feel the course is learning me very much.

By Te-Hsuan T

Jul 24, 2021

Everything is very rushed. One sped up lesson on the fundamentals of Python, and then jump straight in into the more difficult stuff. There's also no clear example of what is being taught. Also between every lesson, it feels like something was skipped.

By Aumdevsinh J

Jun 8, 2019

The final assignment has totally incomplete information and I wasted a lot of my time figuring out things like data set, dashboard etc which are the details usually well defined in other courses. Really a bad assignment formation. Needs fixing for sure

By Teresa F

Mar 12, 2021

I felt that the course material was written/put together by people so well versed in Python they've forgotten what it's like to not know it. The material was hard to digest, poorly presented, the audio was too fast - in general disjointed.

By Ekaterina N

Aug 19, 2021

Entirely not enough explanation on a lot of topics, especially when it gets more complex. Exercises don't match the provided knowledge. Wouldn't recommend this course. Had to watch tons of additional YouTube channels to understand better.

By Haresh M

Feb 24, 2020

I was not able to complete the Peer-graded Assignment. The Free Cloud Storage service provided by IBM is pathetic as I was not able to add the storage instance to my project. Tried reaching the team but still couldn't resolve the issue.

By Citron S d

Aug 4, 2022

Honestly, this is the worst Python course on internet. I am amazed how many mistakes there are, with robot talking and done notebooks for you to read that btw have many mistakes. Just pure garbage. And they sell it for 39USD LMAO

By Sarah S

Jun 15, 2022

Horrible course. I have had a ton of issues with the course and have been unable to post anything to the forum. Additionally, there are a number of questions already outline in the forum that have not been responded to by anyone.