Ratings and Reviews for Using Databases with Python

Thank you professor, it is really exciting to learn hoe python interacts with database!

Excellent Course. Helps a lot to understand API based communications between several parties.

Another great module. Well taught. Right 'bite size' learning points

Perfect start for database knowledge

It's an excellent course. Thanks for the oportunity to learn. Thanks to Coursera, to the University of Michigan and of course to Dr. Chuck, a very good an enthusiastic teacher! All the best for you!

Good course.

great instructor with great course and material , i have learned about database and used sqlite as a DBMS learned the primary query and stored data from xml and json into my local DB

Excellent rendition and accessible content

As an experienced programmer, I am unimpressed. The assignments cover a good set of tools; classes and databases. I would have introduced classes much earlier to emphasize critical coding habits of productive programmers: modularity and reusability. Unfortunately, classes seem to be included here as an afterthought. They are introduced in week 1 and never seen again. Inheritance is mentioned but not explored and an important documentation feature is ignored. The lectures extoll the wonder of SQL but don't even mention outer joins. In later examples, databses are used to house data; but that data is extracted to Python variables with simple queries, where it is manipulated with Python. Programming exercises consist of running his poorly written code and posting results for peer review; students are instructed to grade leniently. Overall, the presentation looks rushed and unpolished. Example code looks like it was hobbled together until it worked and never edited for clarity. If someone I cared about wanted examples of good programming, I would tell them to avoid this.

Excellent, tho hard with the sample. sort of misleading with the following exercises