Learner Reviews & Feedback for Python for Data Science, AI & Development by IBM
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DR
Sep 28, 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.
PJ
Dec 1, 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.
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By Curtis H
•Apr 22, 2023
Very basic and uninteresting labs
By Sanjana S
•Sep 13, 2024
The course isn't much practical.
By Jasper F
•May 31, 2019
the lab is not clear and missing
By Davide B
•May 17, 2019
to many time spent on IBM Watson
By Diego O P
•Aug 3, 2022
Too fast, too vague, too broad.
By MICHAEL K M
•Apr 22, 2020
Very confusing final assignment
By Robin Y
•Aug 17, 2022
Python coding was very less.
By Sree S R K (
•Aug 6, 2021
Very less content.No depth
By Φάμπιαν « Χ
•Feb 13, 2023
only the most basic stuff
By Ehsan J
•Jun 4, 2025
some basics are missings
By Saumya J
•May 26, 2019
Not very user friendly
By Hugo V
•Aug 19, 2024
2 Modules are enough
By Mariano J C
•Jul 20, 2020
poor instructing
By prattya d
•Aug 3, 2018
robotic teaching
By ANOOSHA M
•Sep 12, 2024
its very basic
By Andrey P
•Feb 13, 2023
Waste of time.
By michael V
•Mar 10, 2025
muy confuso
By Yuhuan Z
•Jan 30, 2020
Too simple
By Kevin F
•Jan 24, 2020
Very basic
By Sparsh b
•Jul 11, 2022
Beginner
By Yuanjia Y
•Dec 30, 2019
too easy
By Samad R
•Dec 3, 2020
good.
By MANCHURI S R R 2
•Feb 25, 2021
ok
By Milorad P
•May 26, 2022
The Problem with this course is that is neck tied with IBM Cloud Service. And, IBM Cloud is horrible. You will get strangled and will not be able to finish the Course.
---more details--- It will allow you to create a user account with login.ibm.com. But will fail to create an IBM Cloud Account with Services. Error message during creation.
OK, being a persistent and waisting handful of emails you will eventually succeed once and will waste code on it. In that manner, I was able to finish “Python for Data Science, AI & Development”, but get finally nailed down and halted for the last 4 weeks on “Tools for Data Science”.
Reason being: locked out of account. Can’t even get on login.ibm.com. IBM Help desk sends automated generic responses which don’t have anything with the problem. The creation of more additional IBM Cloud accounts has been proven futile as course code is one time only and IBM cloud service creation will result in an error.
After weeks of trying to get somebody over there at the IBM help desk to tick the box “unlock”, and not getting it, I’m forced to retire from this “Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL” course. I will complete this section “Tools for Data Science” using Github sharing of Jupyter Notebook, as some suggested, but other sections in “Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL” cannot go on without access to IBM Cloud Services. Since I have paid for this certificate, I will ask for a full refund as the course owner is blocking the completion of the course, by locking services out. Possible solutions for future encounters with the same problem: 1. Avoid the potential creation of a problem in the first place. This means, detaching the course from IBM Cloud Services and don’t create dependencies on unreliable third party services.
2. Make sure that a third party is doing the job properly if you must use them. Get the IBM Help desk sorted in a manner that the user who is being locked out can get somebody to deal with him in a timly manner (in this case timely manner means hours, not weeks as it is now)
3. Sort it on your own by improvising temporary solutions. Get the Course creator to assign additional code for the course so the user can create new services and try again. Yes, the user will still loose all of his previous work, but at least he will be able to proceed with future tasks.
---likely outcomes---
1. Probably, no one will read this, as help desks and forums are not meant to improve quality and user support. They exist for l’art pour l’art cosmetics purposes. 2. If somebody eventually reads this, he will do nothing about it, as it is not in his wage bracket. 3. Course will remain with the same problems and completion percentage as it is. 4. People will ask for their money back and avoid you in future. ---unlikely outcome--- The solution will be provided.
Kind Regards
By prudgin g
•Dec 9, 2019
Lots of mistakes and imprecisions. In case of technical issues, staff will leave you alone with your problem after one formal and meaningless reply. The staff does not comment more than once on a topic, even if the issue is not resolved. Get ready to work through your problems with the help of a chatbot, that is in a beta development stage.
You have to deal with Watson studio in this course. Oh, this is such a pain... I couldn't even create a new project there dew to technical issues. After getting in a dead end with Coursera stuff I tried to use IBM support and that was so fun, just check it out:
reply1:
"Hello Alexey
blah blah blah
Regards Raino Soikkeli IBM Watson Services Support"
solution provided not working
reply2:
"Hello Alexey , My name is Nigel Terry and I on following up on this ticket as my colleague Raino is off-shift at the moment.
exactly the same blah blah blah
Please confirm and I will follow up accordingly. Kind regards, Nigel "
not working again. no wonder, he gave me the same instructions the first guy did.
reply3:
"Hi Alexey, Nigel and Raino are not available at this time. I also work with the IBM Watson Studio Cloud (WSC) team. I do not have access to your services (LOL, same as previous two guys), but I can list them.
exactly the same blah blah blah"
and not working again, to no wonder.
I am thrilled to find out how many people work at IBM