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With all due respect, Prof. Severance teaches from the perspective of someone already well-versed in Python, rather than catering to students encountering it for the first time. He frequently uses terms like "blah, blah, blah" (I counted 16 times) and relies heavily on visual annotations—circles, squiggles, and “trees”—that make the provided notes difficult to follow on their own. Phrases like "this is this" and "that is that" appear in the notes, which lack clarity without additional context. I often found myself pausing the videos after nearly every sentence to take screenshots, turning a 10-minute lesson into an hour or more. I had to create my own reference system, noting things like "the purple squiggle means X" and "the yellow circle means Y" to make sense of his explanations. While I have no doubt that Prof. Severance is knowledgeable and a good instructor, the extra effort required to interpret the material was overwhelming. The first two courses I took—Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) and Python Data Structures—were manageable. However, Using Python to Access Web Data became extremely frustrating. Ultimately, I decided not to continue the series, as the time and financial investment required to decipher the notes would be too much. I would challenge the professor to review his own notes without any visual reference to better understand the student experience.

I really enjoyed the first two courses of Dr. Chuck's Python for Everybody Specialization -- but not this one. As some other reviewers have already stated I, too, felt increasingly frustrated and somehow left alone during this course. Most of this course's assignments were way too difficult and I had to search the web for hours to find some help to solve them. Or, quite honestly, I had to cheat my way through them, because I just didn't know what to do anymore. There are of course the discussion forums where one can state one's problem - but although the staff and mentors are really quick with replying (thumbs up for that), their tips are often way too general and not helpful at all.

After taking this third course I will definitely not continue with the Specialization, as I originally planned to, simply because in comparison to the first two courses, this third course is way too difficult and frustrating!

Also, in my opinion, Dr Chuck tries to squeeze in far too many different topics and different programming langauges into this course, instead of really just focusing on Python itself.

I completed this course, yes, but it left me with a very frustrated and unsatisfied feeling. I don't think I was really able to learn a lot from it, which is really a pity, since I enjoyed the first two courses so much.

I'm giving 3 star because I compare this course to Python for everybody and data structure which are perfect courses. The first reason that I'm not happy with this course is that you can never get the course finished because you have to wait for your first assignment reviewed by students and I saw in Forum that some people are waiting for 1 year! I guess thousands of students are waiting to get their homeworks reviewed. The assignment is taking screenshot from your python installed and printing something! This is the third course and who got this far for sure has python installed, Is the assignment really that necessary?!

Another reason is the lectures are in python 2 and for the assignments if you are going to work with python 3 (which by the way they recommend students use it rather than python 2 in the first course), is going to be pain. There are really different and its confusing and frustrating to figure out the codes that work with your python version.

I also think the lectures somehow got really complicated and difficult very fast in this course. However, I have to be fair and admit that I didn't know anything about xlm, html and json before taking this course and now at least I know what they are!

This module is where the Python for Everybody specialization kind of goes off the rails. It starts off good with RegEx, and probably could have dedicated another week to it, as I found it really interesting. Once it gets into networks and sockets, it's still interesting, but it starts to become less about Python and more about broader, big picture stuff. But there is still a lot of coding involved, and the lectures are very good.

However, by the end of the module, the assignments become less about coding and more about the big picture things that the code can do. The assignments become more about copy-pasting the already written code and tweaking one or two things about it than actually writing code an learning python.

The instructor is obviously very knowledgeable and the lectures are easy to follow along with. But by the end of this module the material offered up is just too broad, and there's not a lot to do in the assignments.