SK
Dec 6, 2020
As always like how I told, there's no doubt about this being the best python course that you will ever find, and take it from a guy who never found interest in studying until now.
Thank you.
MS
Jun 24, 2023
An amazing course! Thank you so much. Everything about this course was incredible, especially the final project. As always, I thoroughly enjoyed solving problems in the Runestone environment.
By kayalvizhij j
•Mar 11, 2021
Good
By Asitha D
•Feb 16, 2021
Good
By Ankit K G
•Oct 25, 2020
good
By KARTHIK M
•Sep 21, 2020
good
By Souhardya G
•Sep 11, 2020
Good
By Dr. S R
•Aug 15, 2020
nice
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•Jul 2, 2020
nice
By DARSHIL S
•Jun 27, 2020
nice
By KOMIRELLY M R
•Jun 19, 2020
good
By Arbaj M
•May 16, 2020
Good
By Ramu B
•May 16, 2020
Good
By HARSHA B
•Apr 27, 2020
Good
By RAJA R Y
•Apr 16, 2020
nice
By Ryo M
•Feb 1, 2020
NIce
By Dao X H
•Jul 6, 2019
good
By Sui X
•May 25, 2019
good
By WeiDong
•Apr 8, 2019
nice
By خالد خ
•Oct 5, 2023
god
By Rishabh D
•Jan 10, 2023
NA
By Kiran K
•Sep 26, 2020
NA
By George S
•Apr 5, 2019
ok
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•Jun 14, 2021
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•Aug 12, 2020
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By Michael K
•Apr 4, 2020
While the other courses have been pretty good, albeit maybe a bit on the simplistic side, this course was definitely the weakest so far in the Python 3 Specialization. I thought the coverage of classes and object-oriented programming (OOP) was not all that great. I have a background in C++/C# so thankfully I already have a solid understanding of OOP, because otherwise I don't think I would have gained much real-world understanding from this course. While it shows you the basics of how to create classes and inherit from other classes, it's very light on how the OOP paradigm is intended to be used. There's very little to no discussion of the core aspects of Abstraction and Polymorphism which are absolutely essential to using it properly.
These courses would have better done with examples that build upon each other, rather than isolated one-off examples each time. That way students can gradually see how different aspects of the language combine with each other to result in larger, more complex programs. That is even more the case in this course. You go from a bunch of tiny, isolated examples to a whopping 250 line final project that is orders of magnitude more complicated than anything else encountered previously in the Specialization. For someone totally new to programming this must have been extremely intimidating. The code in the final project should have been distributed throughout the course in examples building up to it rather than hitting you with it all at once.
A couple other nitpicks. First, there is an awkward and out-of-place 30 minute segue into the Django web development framework which, in my opinion, contributed very little understanding to the concepts of classes and OOP. Second, the instructors created a custom implementation only available on their online textbook to demonstrate unit testing. Python already has built-in assertion functionality for testing, so I don't understand why that was not used in favor of something students won't even be able to use in an actual Python environment.
By Edward K
•Aug 22, 2020
The lectures and text material about Exceptions are very good.
The lectures and text material about Testing together are too brief. I have read enough about Python to know that Python has a module called Unitest. Unitest deserves a separate week or more than one week, perhaps another course.
The introduction to Classes is good, but the lectures and text material about Inheritance are too shallow. I never really understood how inheritance is to be applied.
I found that the course material did not prepare me to work on the final project. I completed reading all the text, the lectures and the assignments during the first three week. Then I extended the deadlines by one month, and I consider myself fortunate to have finished the course during those extra four weeks.