Disorganized course materials. Gaps in the materials.

Requires significant previous programming experience.

Too basic instructions and complex applied functions

Not really impressed with these courses so far...

programme structure is hard, teaching way is old

Assignments are too hard comparing to lessons

Morely designed on slideshows, not effective.

exercises given don't follow the course line

This course is very difficult for beginners.

This course is not very "beginner friendly"

it's so hard for beginners in my opinion

Not engaging and not presented well.

Pretty advanced and little guidance.

Peng is incomprehensible. I give up.

This is not beginner R Programming.

Assignments were way too difficult

Instructor is not so satisfactory

Need to cover basics of OOP more

final assessment was though

the assignment is too hard

Not what i was looking for

difficult for beginners

No easy explanations

very old material.

I really cannot recommend this course for lack of its structure but as I have decided to do the specialization now I cannot stop. Quizzes are good and test the depth of concepts we understood in lectures but programming assignment fails everything. It feels like lectures are made by a person and assignments by a completely new person with a lack of communication. A strong suggestion from being new to programming is that consider the lectures as per the assignments you have made. Programs required to complete the assignments include functions that have not been covered in the lectures nor have they been provided in any supplemental or suggested reading. Assignments are mean to implement what we have learned in the lectures and readings. But the codes required to complete the assignments either have not been taught or mentioned with good references. People with prior programming experience can adapt to it but me being new to it struggled a lot. Especially on week 3 and week 4 programs. I literally had to do filter and sort data in excel to be able to answer some questions in the programming assignments. Please refer course on "Strategic Leadership and Management" by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Coursera. There is such an amazing interrelation among assignments and teaching that it makes you want to go further and also try to read or work around more. Please first consider the assignment you want students to complete and then design the lectures. For the week 3 program, I learned after lots of googles to use the argument 'pattern' in the read.csv function. It's really frustrating to solve those programs without a proper understanding of functions. I hope you make the changes as after completing this course even we can utilize it.

Thank you for your efforts.