As a programmer specializing in another language, I use Python occasionally - mainly for generating generic code and developing frameworks for integration and system testing. I was hoping that a course on this platform would allow me to expand my knowledge in this area, but it turned out to be a complete disappointment. Course structure From the perspective of both a beginner and a more experienced programmer, the course seems useless. It does not bring any value - neither for people who are just starting to learn Python, nor for those who already have some experience. Form of teaching - 95% of the materials are videos, in which the presenters (who often have nothing to do with programming) read text from a prompter. Lack of practice - Learning to program is all about writing code, meanwhile here the practical aspects are limited to a few videos where the code is simply copied and run. Reading texts - Often repeat content from the videos, are monotonous and contain little actual code. A lot of space is devoted to general praise of Python, but the course does not show what it is actually supposed to be so versatile at. Assignments and tests Tests - Most of the questions are a choice of A, B, C, D, regarding what the library is used for. Throughout the course I ended up with maybe two questions that required code analysis. I would have expected something more practical, such as “What will this piece of code return?” Programming tasks - They boil down to copying a ready-made line of code to a specific place. I have the impression that the hidden tests only check that the code has been accurately pasted into the right line, not that it works correctly. Subjective evaluation I had the highest hopes for the module on automated testing. Unfortunately, instead I received a discussion of debugging using print(). The test unit topic was limited to two videos and one short text - far too little. Even the title of the course is misleading, as actual test automation is not mentioned here. Summary The course does not bring any value - neither for beginners nor for more advanced users. Instead of practical learning of Python, we get dry theoretical lectures that are difficult to apply in real work. PS. If the knowledge in Microsoft really stands at such a level, I admire that Windows works at all.

You need to be programmer to follow along, not sure that even helps. I have been writing python scripts for over a year and I have no idea what they are talking about most the time in this course.

You can't do better?! You telling me my code is wrong just because I have extra space in print statement?! And this line of code can't run properly?! ---> print("Hello world!") Who create this course?! Even I can do better!

The course feels overly long and drawn out, making it difficult to stay engaged throughout the material. Many sections seem padded with unnecessary repetition or tangential information that doesn’t add much value to the core learning objectives. As a result, the key points are often buried, which makes it frustrating to follow along and slows down progress. The course could be significantly improved by streamlining the content—focusing more directly on the essential topics and cutting out filler. This would make the material clearer, more concise, and ultimately more impactful for learners.

This course provided a solid foundation of Python for me to continue forward with. However, so much of the information in this course is redundant and repeated over and over again. There are also formatting issues and minor instances of incorrect information scattered throughout. Additionally, it is very clear A.I. was used to write large portions of this course. However it does still provide a strong starting point for learning Python.

Demasiado teorico, nada practico. Lo importante solo viene en las lecturas.

Cannot get the python installer on my computer. Their website is absolute zero help. I want to take a different class. This is stupid.

I was really an excellent experience learningthe basics of python looking forward to do the next few python courses offered by Microsoft

It's very good python course that combine many concepts and connect to real world application.

Los videos y las explicaciones son geniales. Realmente el curso ofrece contenido de calidad. No obstante, en algunos casos debes ampliar con información de otras fuentes y recurrir a internet para ampliar información. Algunos cuestionarios hacen preguntas que el contenido no ha dado explícitamente, pero que sí lo hace después, generando algo de confusión.

This course is terrible and feels like most of the reviews are artificial. How it can average 4.5 is beyond me. There is barely any practice, useless videos. I can't imagine anybody can take out anything useful from it. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people who persevered to the end (me included) knew most of it beforehand. I don't know much about testing, and despite it being supposedly covered, I wouldn't be able to write the simplest test after. You won't be able to write much more than Hello world! after the course if you didn't take another before or programmed in other languages (or Python, even better ;)) I will try the second part, but I don't expect anything from it.

"This item will be unlocked when the schedule begins." Never mind that this is a self-directed at-your-own-pace training, substantial amounts of material are locked out. Microsoft has nobody you can contact for assistance and the Coursera chatbots are no help. Read the forums - this is a common issue and there is no answer for it. Why?

This is a self-paced course, but apparently operates on some sort of schedule with locked content.

treat the learner as if they have no background in anything. a lot of talk, no practice in coding

Good course and definetly took notes. I appreciated all I leanred and the skills sets too.

I do not think this is a true Python fundamentals course. It tries to cover too many topics, some of which are advanced. Although it is recommended as a beginner course, it should not be taken as your first course for learning Python. Finish another beginner course first, then come back to this one for revision.

Excellent—as long as it isn’t your first course. This course heavily relies on students’ interest and their desire to explore independently. Many topics are introduced, but not elaborated on.

For a programming course, very little programming (actual code writing). The course consists of many low quality videos (actors reading from a script, no PC involved) and a lot of texts to read (most likely written by AI, not a lot of code snippets); this is very boring. There is very little link between one lesson and the other, often feeding you the exact same information multiple times (by multiple I mean 5+ even) as if it had never gone through this before. I often found myself struggling to go through a certain lesson, just to find out later that the next lesson would break it down and explain it in a better way (it seems that the lessons are out of order). That being said, it does cover the fundamentals and basics that it promises. It is nice that it covers Git and Github which is one of the reasons I chose this course. It is a good beginner course to understand what Python can do and how to get started but unless you have your own projects to practice alongside or you do a different course after this one, this is not quite the best to learn actual coding.

I am near the end of the first module. While the exercises and quizes repeat important skills repeatedly just enough, the reading and video sections are very bad. They are clearly all written by AI, you can see it because of the repeated phrases, and using fancy exciting words with little value. This just distracts and confuses beginners. As an experienced programmer, I noticed lot of mistakes, that mislead beginners - this AI product was clearly not reviewed by a person. As a result, I just skimmed over unnecessary text, focused on the sections in bold font, and played with exercises, to learn basic Python syntax. For beginners, I cannot recommend this course.

some modules are locked and I can not open it.