Ratings and Reviews for Python Project: Software Engineering and Image Manipulation

Great program I will take other ones from the same university.

The labs provide all the script of the lecture, so the lecture videos are pretty much useless. The projects in this course are unexpectedly more difficult than previous courses, and the teaching assistant seems to be complaining about students' posts all the time, making me hesitate to ask questions there. I give 3 stars only because I spent a lot of time and efforts and I felt that I learned a lot by the end of the course. But still, this course could be designed a lot better than this. I will not be surprised that many students just give up in the middle of the learning.

Abysmal. Just take it down or keep it optional for those that have already completed the other courses. Not only is there little to no actually teaching, the topic is somewhat far removed from what someone might in counter in a real life work setting - All this has been said hundreds of times in the course forums already though....

Overall this is a good intro course to OCR using python. I was looking forward to this from the get-go of the specialization and it feels that i'm walking away with some understanding of the capabilities and the possibilities. that's great. One comment regarding the presentation material - i thought the delivery was pretty dry. There was absolutely no difference between the oral and written material. this is in principle a good thing BUT not when there's info lacking. For instance we're at the PIL discussion and the comment is "I think that Image looks interesting"...well ok but why do you think that? what makes you think it's interesting. I've read the material first as per recommendation so I was hoping to get some insight as to why you chose one over any other...but nah. I don't know how difficult it would be for you to address this or you may choose to ignore it altogether but i've figured i should share since you're asking for feedback. There are a couple of things i've found fairly annoying and it would seem to me that they can easily be addressed. looking for image.zip for the last assignment -- I spent at least a couple of hours trying to find a copy of the image.zip file. I ended up downloading the py3.zip of 2 years ago or so. This is wasted time not time well spent. Why can this not be a link to the description of the assignment, meaning "go to the appropriate google share and download py3.zip", since the existing links to image.zip seem to be perpetually broken. Kraken does not run on Windows -- this came as a surprise; not your fault but it's important enough to be posted up front so folks with windows machines, like me, can get their setup going. it takes time to setup a docker container with the python development environment etc to make it useful.

I think this was a little too much for me to process, I wished it would be a little longer and slower, but overall its really good

Very badly taught. Actually he doesn't teach anything. He introduces you to some modules and says go read the rest, and do the project. Disappointing

For those who take this course with the completion of the specialization in mind, take note that the difficulty increase quite drastically for this course as compared to the other courses in this specialization. Also beware that this course has a more figure it out yourself rather than a guide approach to teaching and the lecture has a more read the script approach to it, at least we get to read the script for revision and play with the lecture code. Some may be out off by it, but i would say that this is better than other capstones or courses in Coursera, at least the instructions for coursework are clear and the coding environment for it work.... as compared to other more buggy approach in other courses... but beware the Jupyter thingy takes a long time to run your code...

Very interesting course on implementing the use of open source software. A bit challenging but still very doable.

poorly explained course. assignment instructions often times not clear.

As a beginner I found it quite difficult as compared to other courses in this series. I was expecting a lot more handholding and detailed explanation of the subject as it was done in the other courses in this otherwise great series. However I really enjoyed learning.