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This course is.... odd.

It's a jumbled mess of videos read in robot voice, "labwork" which is "optional", and way too easy to complete (many of them just involve hitting shift+enter over and over again)... assuming that you can get the lab to load in the first place, quizzes which insult your intelligence with how easy they are, one random module (APIs) which is WAY WAY more complicated than anything else in the class, and a final assignment that's surprisingly a nice review of the class. I actually had to go back and re-watch the videos to complete it. However, everything I needed WAS in the videos.

And here's the weird thing: all the nonsense about setting up IBM Watson, IBM Cloud Services, IBM Speech to Text, IBM Translator, IBM... (you get the point, you will sign up for a TON of IBM services, and then have to figure out how to get them to work together)... is probably the BEST part of the class.

You can learn Python lots of places (and you should. Please don't count on this class to teach you Python. Go to codecademy fer cryin' out loud.) But where else are you going to get hands on time working through frustration and technical problems getting IBM Cloud services to work? The course doesn't always hold your hand on basic things like getting the labs to load. Yeah, that's awesome. You'll HAVE to learn how to use the tools.

Please don't take this class if you never ever plan on using IBM again in your life. But if you are thinking of applying to any job that uses the IBM platform, this course is money.

But yeah, the python part sucks. There's better and cheaper pretty much everywhere on the internet.

Whilst the course seems detailed enough and helps you learn step by step - not that I'm a good judge as I'm COMPLETELY new to coding - there are many things that need to be improved to make it 5 stars:

1. when using PYTHON software I discovered that should actually be using Jupyter lab and then took 3 weeks and 5 forum messages to learn that the codes weren't working because I was supposed to use JupyterLITE - this was never mentioned in the course or explained properly.

This led me to feeling very frustrated and demotivated and losing my time! it took a lot of effort to re-start and push myself nonetheless.

2. there is just ONE person in the forum replying ONCE a day and NOT on weekends - this really slows the learning down, albeit they are trying to be helpful always

3. not all codes show how the execution looks - for someone who's learning from scratch I don't know if I got it right or not, only that the code worked

4. there is a big leap from basics to complex without what seems like enough explnanation in between - using Google to research and analysing yourself can only take you so far when you're a complete beginner.

5. finally a (small) number of codes are simply wrong - this makes learning difficult once again albeit I do question the codes more and try to analyse when looking at them.

6. I don't know if I "absorbed"/understood all the relevant information sufficiently, whether I will ever need all the codes from scratch or it's merely understanding the mechanics of codes