Pretty good, only overwhelming in a couple of the weeks

Very entertaining course, I learned a lot, thank you!

Nice for python beginner. Thanks for free course.

Very good explinations and excersices

Great Course for absolute begineers!

I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge

Very good for absolute beginners.

Great couse. Would recommend.

great way of start python

course is very intresting

I´m giving 4* not as a demerit, but only as cautionary warning:

This is not a course that will dive really deep in explaining For, While and If.

So if that´s a subject you have problem understanding go solve it before doing this.

A strong feature in this course is that they really make you write your documentation right, "def" is explained since week 1, which I find is an amazing strategy instead of teaching everything and then forcing you to do this.

What would improve this course would be more exercicies, since the only 3 assignments you have are a major jump, so if you havent yet programed you'll most likely be lost and have a real hard time completing it.

The Quizzes are really challenging, and not in a nice way, I find they are sometimes unfair, that's why I think would be better to have more exercices and tasks instead of those insanely difficult quizzes (and I already have experience in programing so I can imagine someone unexperienced).

If you already know python and programing take this course, it will not be demanding and will teach you great stuff, a real nice way to improve some areas you may be found lacking in your development.

Awesome course, very well structured. Good pace. Not too easy, but when you are seriously trying to complete the course it was also not too difficult. Highly recommend!

This course teachs you basic, core fundamentals if one gets it right then rest is bit easy... Focus on fundamentals is always good

I learned a great deal. The reead/write of files was a bit quick but otherwise it was well-paced.

Very well explained. Good to start.

This was a solid course that taught me the basics of the Python language. I especially learned a lot from the assignments & from the use of the dir() and help() functions. The quizzes were not done as well as some other courses. In this course when I got a question wrong it did not point me in the direction of where I learned that concept. The quizzes also did not have Python code imbedded in them so I couldn't test the code I was writing in the quiz itself which was less convenient.

Good course to cover basics, but some answers for quizzes are not accurate, which is disruptive to learning. There were many times when my answer was marked wrong, I tried to figure out for hours what the correct answer could be, only to see in discussion forums that "oh ya, the answer is wrong. It's a coursera issue"

Please kindly resolve the issues please. Thank you.

Good introduction to Python but very basic, not for anyone with programming experience as you could learn all this in about an hour.

Audio Quality was quite poor.

As a complete beginner, I was disheartened to have the same questions as others from as far back as 4 years ago in the course discussion forum and have the material presented not updated to reflect the information to answer these questions. It's frustrating and shows me a lack of actual involvement of the instructors that they won't update their course material. If I wanted to have to research all the answers to my questions, I wouldn't have taken a course.

O curso está demasiado desatualizado no que toca às versões the python a utilizar, o que faz com que a instalação do software seja quase impossível para acompanhar o curso.

This course significantly lacks effectiveness in its teaching approach. Having completed 80% of it, I've found that each question is either overly ambiguous or requires consultation of external sources for clarification and understanding. The adage "you get what you pay for" rings true here, especially considering that this course is offered for free. It's disappointing to see such a lackluster effort from the University of Toronto. I recommend saving yourself the hassle by leveraging ChatGPT for learning, as I had to seek external clarification for every concept presented in this course. This experience has diminished my interest in pursuing further courses through Coursera.

They offer no help if you get stuck!! If you start this your on your own!! This is not a good course to learn python!!!! Vital information is withheld. They show you how to do one function body and then expect you to know everything about creating a function body!!!! You have to go off site to get 25% plus of the information is needed. What a Joke!!!!!

outdated ,

video lectures are from 8 years ago , which is like a century in terms of programming.

although the material maybe useful , most of the programming exercises deal with an IDLE that is in 2012 so features are different than IDLE in 2020 . I don't want to spend most of my time trying to figure how they did something in 2012.

i didn't know that i have to verify my name only after receiving the certificate with(coursera learner' . and after verifyin my name, i was chocked .. i have to buy my certificate ... i feel sorry and sad ..it's one month of work and sacrifice in order to get this certificate that fallls down .i'm so sad

Very poorly designed course, they only focus on mac and don't even explain that everything works differently on windows, yet they take time to make you listen to elementary school level math in the first week materials.