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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Python for Data Science, AI & Development by IBM

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About the Course

Kickstart your Python journey with this beginner-friendly, self-paced course taught by an expert. Python is one of the most popular programming languages, and the demand for individuals with Python skills continues to grow. This course takes you from zero to programming in Python in a matter of hours—no prior programming experience is necessary! You’ll begin with Python basics, including data types, expressions, variables, and string operations. You will explore essential data structures such as lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets, learning how to create, access, and manipulate them. Next, you will delve into logic concepts like conditions and branching, learning how to use loops and functions, along with important programming principles like exception handling and object-oriented programming. As you progress, you will gain practical experience reading from and writing to files and working with common file formats. You’ll also use powerful Python libraries like NumPy and Pandas for data manipulation and analysis. The course also covers APIs and web scraping, teaching you how to interact with REST APIs using libraries like requests and extract data from websites using BeautifulSoup. You will practice and apply what you learn through hands-on labs using Jupyter Notebooks. By the end of this course, you’ll feel comfortable creating basic programs, working with data, and automating real-world tasks using Python. This course is suitable for individuals interested in pursuing careers in Data Science, Data Analytics, Software Development, Data Engineering, AI, and DevOps and a variety of other technology-related roles....

Top reviews

PJ

Nov 30, 2020

It is a good course and teaches with the basic of Python so that anyone can understand it very well. Videos are good and can easily be understandable to anyone who is new to Python and Data Science.

DR

Sep 27, 2024

This course was really helpful in make me understand all the topics of Python from scratch, including the slightly advanced topics, of APIs, for my level as a freshman just getting settled in college.

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By Adrian L

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Sep 16, 2023

Completo, pero en ocasiones siento que es mucha informacion que procesar sobre todo para alguien con nula experiencia.

By Luis E G G

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Oct 12, 2022

Luego de cierto nivel básico, el curso avanza muy rápidamente para aquellos que no tenían experiencia en programación

By manoj b

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Apr 14, 2022

Course was good, lot of things I learned, hand on labs could have been more better in order to smoothen learning curve

By Jennifer L W

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Jul 16, 2021

Great course! Just wish I had more time to spend with the materials. It is a lot to learn in a short amount of time...

By Alex R

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Jul 7, 2020

There were some typos in the course slide as well as the final assessment that lessened the quality of the experience.

By Trivendram p

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Oct 7, 2019

The course is good but the videos are too short to understand. The videos should be more descriptive and informative .

By Louis W

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Jun 5, 2021

The content is not detailed, it could be more in-depth, or more examples to help learners, but the curriculum is good

By wongwhit

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Jul 6, 2020

The API part doesnt really clarify to me. It would be better if more details provided regarding to how functions work

By Yacine B

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Jul 30, 2024

the course Covers all the basics of python and data structure but i think the course is not for absolute beginners.

By Muralikrishnan R

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Feb 20, 2020

Quite tough for a beginner, as there are a lot of things to integrate within short videos.

But all in all very good.

By Filipe S M G

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Aug 22, 2019

Interesting initial applications for Data Science using Python and Jupyter.

OBS: The videos had many small mistakes.

By David v d Z

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Jul 29, 2019

Pretty nice course, very elementary though. Only follow if you're a real beginner, with no knowledge of programming.

By Frank H

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Jul 16, 2023

IP good, but some notebooks didn't work and contained some minor errors - it looks like some content is deprecated!

By Brian B

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Nov 24, 2020

Good crash course of Python specifically for data science usage, including python syntax, data structures, and APIs

By Hridoy D M

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Mar 31, 2025

Great course. It would be better to add some exercises for web scraping and how to get the data from the web site.

By atefe t

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Oct 12, 2024

It was a good course. But now I can not verify my id to get the certificate with my name. Please help me to fix it

By Islam S

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Dec 16, 2020

I tried cracking in Python several times, and I think I can say this has been the best introduction I've ever had.

By Chloe H

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Apr 18, 2020

pro: practice studio and quiz are very helpful in learning

con: videos are too fast and short, not a lot of content

By Samrat P

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Feb 2, 2020

Decent Course but a bit fast-paced so you need to very attentive and if possible try to do MSDN's Course First !!!

By arkopravo b

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Sep 25, 2019

i learn new skill from this course .so i really thankful to coursera. i recomend everybody to learn form coursera.

By LEANDRO M

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Sep 17, 2023

The course is quite easy and covers the concepts not in too much detail. Nevertheless, the explanations are good.

By Suhas S

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Mar 2, 2021

Great course for beginners. Could be better if we could have got more and more programming examples in the videos

By Shivnaesh k

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Apr 28, 2020

The course content was very good and knowledgeable, easy to follow, and well framed. Thank you Coursera and team.

By le u

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May 8, 2023

This course is amazing as I've learnt different python libraries through working with some small scale problems.

By vaishali k

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Jul 31, 2022

The practical knowledge provided by this course is very good.But sometimes the lab environment doesnot responds.