final exam has such a difficulty ramp

good but some lessons are unclear

Good insights ... Thank you

I learn a lot here! Thanks!

very helpful for beginners

It was a wonderful cousrse

It was good and practical.

It was Quite Informative.

nice course for basics

final exam was tough

A very good course

good entry point!

amazing course

Good course.

VERY GULD!!!

cool course

Educational

Very good

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I wanted to learn this course for Biopython. But it was in the last chapter and they only teach it for 15 minutes and very fast. I think it was not good enough. I knew the Python language and other chapters were like Python reviewing for me. And the last important point was about the final exam. They taught Biopyton very quickly and superficially, but the final exam was very difficult and about Biopython. This frustrates students and they feel that they do not have enough ability to learn Biopyton. It is like teaching students multiplication and then taking a test to solve a complex equation ...

Nice course if you hace programming skills already and very entusiastic teachers!

The biggest flaw in my opinion is that in order to pass the course, you already have to have a solid background and experience in programing.

Another thing is they dont give programming HW in this course and only Qs you have to run in the shell to get the right answer or you have to spot mistakes in the code.

My advice to the new students in the course is to take each method/function/module and find exercises in the internet to get hands on experience with it (there are alot of sites in google with great exercises).

Great leaps of difficulty seem unavoidable in this kind of courses. It felt rather easy at the beginning of the course but the level of difficulty just increased exponentially. Programming actually takes a much longer time than simply 4 weeks to learn and practice to be skillful. So please add some sort of warning stating"decent background knowledge required" to the course introduction or it will be a torture taking the course as a completely beginner. The course design could have been done better.

The idea of the course is pretty nice, but honestly it is too outdated and if you are not familiar with python this is not an easy thing at all. The quizzes are mostly difficult, and the end exam is pretty much hell if you are not a great fan of programming. There are no scripts to help you, so you are very much on your own. However if you like that, it is pretty challenging and well you will learn. Or you might start to hate programming:).

I enjoyed the lectures, but I felt they didnt go into enough details on analysis of sequence data. The final project was considerably harder than the material taught in the class and problems with the course (e.g. the final exam file not being available) had obviously not been fixed since the last version of the course. A fell I now have a good basic understanding of python but not enough to do any real analysis. Fantastic course mentor/TA.

The materials taught are quite interesting but hard to follow as the quizzes are harder than what we have been taught. Also, I personally had a hard time understanding Ms. Mihaela Pertea, PhD as she did not speak quite clearly and seem nervous. I think this course needs to be updated in terms of the video contents and the way the lecturer speaks so that learners could get the point of each video easily. Thank you.