I was new to Python but I easily learned all the concepts thanks to the interactive content provided in the course. If you have basic programming knowledge you can easily complete the course.

While it does help you to understand some rather small and minute details about the fundamentals of Python this is NOT a good course if you're actually intending to learn it. The amount of "Go do it and find out" is hilarious. The hints inside the Labs are NOT helpful. You have absolutely no way of knowing if you've gotten the answer right even if the answer is MEANT to have an error (yes this happens). The amount of frustration I had while just trying to see if I could get the right answer, forcing myself to do the standardized test trick and skip the answer until I saw something similar and just guessed based on that was HORRIBLE. For what it is, it's a course that teaches you how to do redundant work, repeat the same tasks and gives you absolutely no help along the way.

This was a really poorly written course in comparison to the rest of the course - I was taken aback at how bad this was.

Who teaches you to read a python file at the very end of the course? The quiz questions in this were also the trick/"gotcha!" kind which don't make for a very good learning experience but foster a negative "I need to memorise this particular case to pass!" sort of feel to them.

I'm disappointed that this is part of the $60 AUD I pay a month for Coursera and will find other resources like Harvard's free CS50X course to further my understanding of Python.

Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python is a good introductory or refresher course, particularly for those who have not been exposed to the language yet or programming for that matter. Even though this course is catered to future security analysts, I noticed that (1) they have omitted concepts such as installing Python locally on your machine, setting up a virtual environment, and selecting Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). In addition, (2) there is no reference to nested loops, try-except, recursion, object-oriented programming (OOP) or testing. And finally, (3) they don't mention or rather put an emphasis on Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs), particularly PEP 8. Given the course time constraints, it makes sense why it is not very comprehensive. However, they do a good job in conveying the majority of basic Python concepts a security analyst would need as a starter. If time and money permit, I would recommend taking other Python courses such as Python for Everybody Specialization by UMich with Dr. Chuck, Python 3 Programming Specialization by UMich, Learn to Program: The Fundamentals by University of Toronto, Programming in Python: A Hands-on Introduction Specialization by Codio, Crash Course on Python by Google, Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate, etc. They are all here on Coursera and are free with Coursera Plus. Of course, edX (another platform) has also some great ones such as 6.0001 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python from MIT, CS50P Introduction to Programming with Python from Harvard, etc. Other resources include Udemy, Sololearn, YouTube and most importantly practice, practice, and practice. In conclusion, I would recommend this course. Thank you to Angel, the instructor. And also thank you to Google and Coursera.

systematic design and very useful for beginners in cybersecurity. Recommended to all beginners to must join and complete it . All instructor and contents are full understandable and useful.

Every single practice assignment was utterly useless. I really did not like how they structured the assignment questions. Everything looked messy and very difficult to follow, not to mention if you make a mistake, there is no way of knowing what you did wrong and how to fix it.

very wonderful and rich in contents, very educative and very elaborate too, the lecture settings and the heading and the explanations with video tutorials were all well aligned and connected too

It was so so, the lecture's tone of voice boring and he spoke to slow. I had to increase the speed of speech. Also there is no intonation during the spoken language. Also, it is better to use show while speaks, because now he explains and then demonstrate. He repeats himself twice. I did learn how to use, read and write Python, but with the small improvements, I would have learned alot more. Most of the time the lecture spoke too much, I ended up to fast forward the video.

I recently completed the Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python course and I have to say it was an incredible experience. The course material was well-structured and easy to follow. The hands-on exercises and projects were practical and provided valuable experience in applying Python to solve real-world cybersecurity tasks.

The instructor was very knowledgeable and provided clear explanations of complex concepts.

Overall, I highly recommend the Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python course to anyone who wants to learn how to apply Python to automate cybersecurity tasks. It is a great course for both beginners and experienced cybersecurity professionals looking to improve their skills.

This course enlightened me a lot. I had read many python books and watched many videos, but this course showed me how to apply python in real situations. It was amazing stuff, thank you.

If you don't understand programming languages this is very hard. I got to module 2, realized I had no idea what was going on and had to restart the entire course. It keeps you in the shallow end for about 10 minutes and then dumps you into the deep end of the pool and goes "ok, write a bunch of code!"

It was pleasant but my annoyance lies in the fact that the lab environment was problematic. Opening it was troublesome even after following the given instructions

If I could give zero starts to the entire cybersecurity course, I would. I absolutely hate it. The course does not explain anything to make it understandable to "just anyone" as they claim in these stupid testimonial videos. This course expects me to look things up on Google? What the fuck am I paying $50/month for then if I can just learn it all from YouTube or Google (YouTube being way better at explaining content than any fucking thing on this course.) What a waste of time and money. Please do better. Much better.

This part of Cybersecurity Certification course is the most challenging and full of lab activities that consumes much of my time in this part of the course, yet, it is also the most important part of my learning experience with cybersecurity for I think, this connects directly to the said course.

As most cybersecurity analysts testimonials and advices videos, "don't be overwhelmed of your learning journey, you don't have to know everything at once..."This I took in seriously because many would be discouraged if ever they reach this point of not understanding anymore what is being thought, or give up with the activities on hand.

Outstanding content! Helped me immensely to refresh my knowledge of python and add to it. Plenty of hands-on labs and exercises. Great instructor. I thank Google and Coursera for this quality content.

Teacher is very good, explained concepts very well i would love to learn more from this teacher, only thing which is missing in this course is setup of python in windows , Linux this needs to be add

The tasks were very good. I was already a python coder, but still I found new things. I hope you all the best and my deep thanks to you and all the members of google instructers , thanks again.

I think this should be a prerequisite to this course, Python is confusing and i use it. I think the samples on the video are simple, but then the labs are very complexed. I would prefer to do the example first even if its not the same thing, just to get a understanding of the task vs doing the task and the seeing the example.

No guidance on how to use the libraries to consult on Python syntax. Confusing labs with convoluted comments and step breakdowns involving shortcuts are not appropriate for beginners.

Really disliked the website for Python. Could have been better on another site or on a webapp.

This one could be done a little better with the newbie in mind.

the most difficult course so far, I have to repeat this one

I feel like the labs were hard to read/ operate

Very Challenging, more intermediate level

hard