Biology Meets Programming

Good class, great for beginners to get started!

This course is pretty interesting, but I wouldn't say it's a course for beginners.

This is billed as a course for beginners, but it leans heavily on one's prior skill in programming.

Highly recommended for beginners.

The course structure is good and delivers on its title of Bioinformatics for beginners.

Also, the explanations in the course itself are very, very rudimental, although the optional videos do a better job here.All in all, I am glad I had the possibility for learning something new and I fought myself through the course but please don´t believe that it´s suitable for beginners.

it was enjoyable Not at all for beginners.

As the title saids, this course is pretty good for beginners.

Excellent course to learn Python programming and great way to learn very interesting topics in biology and be introduced to bioinformatics.

Very interesting introduction to two topics at once- genomics and Python programming, resulting in a perfect storm for me!

Very interesting but i don't like switching e-learning platforms It was a really interesting course!

The biological problems motivates the biologist to go through the abstract mathematical concepts(but I have to admit there is a threshold where the biologist can not get it well anymore(greedy motifs, gibbs ...) and I wonder if he does really need it to be practical with day to day problems with chip array seq selex...) be ready you will struggle hard here very interesting!, i liked the stepik interactive lesson very much, i prefer them over lectures Thanks for this nice course.

However, the content is very interesting and I found the videos really useful.

Coming from a Computer Science background this course is very interesting and relatable.

Very interesting course.

A very interesting course, but perhaps not necessarily for "begginer" programmers.

Very interesting and useful, though.

Materials well explained and interesting, stuff very helpful and eager.

It can take a few minutes to an hour, but usually you do this anyways in order to troubleshoot.Outside of the step-by-step function of your code, the broad goals of what you're doing, the aim of your algorithms and the biology, are mostly well explained.

Can't comment on the videos as I never watched a single one, just did the Stepik exercise program.This course is marketed for beginners, but there's a big caveat with that (hence my 4 stars for that deception).I began with a warning, so I'll end with a reminder of that warning:Constructing your coding is not well explained.

Programming part not well explained and too difficult- it can clearly be seen from the comments that many people have the same issues It is a little bit basic, but a great introduction to bioinformatics This course is rather fun to take!!

In my opinion these should have been done on the first week.

But in my opinion it is a little hard for beginners.

Furthermore the instructors are always helpful pointing in the right direction without revealing too much.

Too much math and computer coding.

Successfully completing work in Week 4 depends on successfully completing the "GreedyMotifSearch", I didn't search the forum or FAQ too much, but providing more visible support for people who get the correct answer, but exceed the time limit might be useful.

I really enjoyed this course, thanks to coursera Challenging and interesting.

I really enjoyed the class, however, I have two complaints/recommendations.1.

The coding part is pretty easy, so if you are familiar with any programming language, I think the programming part will be easy for you.

I definitely recommend this course to anyone familiar with programming, who is also interested in the bioengineering aspect!That being said, I like the idea of the course, but I encountered some issues with stepik's online classes/texts.. Their servers seem to be down so I am not even able to complete the interactive text part at the time I want (I keep getting 500)..

This course is definitely not for beginners at programming with R. The way every explanation is written is quite confusing for anyone not familiar with programming and made me very confused.