Ratings and Reviews for Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python

Material is good in the beginning, but feels rushed towards the end. Was able to get through the course with the forums, but getting your specific questions answered does not happen quickly or usually at all.

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It was amazing.. i got what i wanted from this course. It's integrity help you to learn more efficiency and not losing the momentom. I recommend you do some project from other place in order to see what's going on in real word too.. thanks to Dr. Chuck

Dr. Chuck teaches very well and attractively. Exercises and interviews with successful people in the field of programming are one of the attractions of this course. This course is very good and complete and introduces you to many concepts in the field of programming. Of course, there is more to learn in every field, but this course will teach you the basics.

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A very disfunctional and disappointing finish to the specialization. The first 3 courses built off of each other and the textbook provided additional explanation for topics. Moreover, there were exercises at the end of every chapter to test the learner's knowledge. Overall, the first three courses were heavily hands-on where we learned to write out own code. Contrasting this, course 4, and course 5 (captsone) were very different. Important topics and new knowledge was glossed over very quickly, and the difficulty of the programs increased significantly more than the level of the students' current knowledge. The programs were actually so difficult compared to our skill level that assignments started to involve simply copy and pasting pre-written code, making slight changes, running, and screenshotting output. Gone were the days of writing out own code apparently...This is no way to learn. The captsone...WOW. Basically the previous paragraph but even worse. Same logic, copy code, run it, take screenshots, submit. Apparently coursera and University of Michigan think that this constitutes knowing how to code. Given that the specialization capstone is advertized as something that we will upload to our portfolio, it is concerning that UMICH thinks that this is appropriate. No employer will hire you simply because you have the certificate, or an application in your portfolio that you merely copy and pasted without knowing how it works. Not only this, but I was actually automatically unsubscribed from the capstone because I finished the week 1 quiz and coursera gave me my certificate before I had even begun the capstone project. The fine print that I failed to realize was that all you have to complete to get the certificate is to complete the quiz, the rest of the course, the "Honours Track" is optional. What I did not realize was that it was one or the other...I was under the impression that I could complete the quiz and upgrade to the honors certificate after completing the rest of the course, I was wrong. Overall, the first three courses I learned a lot and felt confident in my abilities, but the last two courses progressively got worse. Its a shame really. I really enjoyed the first three courses, but the last two including the capstone left me disappointed and discouraged.

Thank you Dr. Chuck

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I would say I'll miss you Dr. Chuck, but I'm planning on taking some of your other specializations (PostGRESQL for everyone and web apps for everyone), so I'll see you there hopefully!!

It is perfect course to get confidence in python coding language in early stage of coding journey.