I took all 5 previous courses in this series and they were all great.

But suddenly Coursera has changed its policy, and one can not take courses for free anymore.

If you just want to learn and gain knowledge without chasing the certificate, than the course is useless, because you can't receive feedback for your work.

Great course, needs a lot more computational brain power than any of the courses in the specialization. Very little to no spoon feeding, but the forum and class notes have adequate info. It is very beneficial to have this kind of experience of a close to a real life situation in a course. No company as i know will pay anyone to be spoon fed. Thank you very much to Prof. Luay and all others that are involved.

Super good, challenging course that forces you to think.

You cannot get easy answers for homework and it pushes you to think hard.

Very impressive and full of challenge. Really learn a lot . Data clustering and sequence alignment are very practical and interesting problems, divided and conquer and dynamic programming skills are very impressive and powerful. I really enjoy myself in this course. And I've got a feeling like that all things are connected to each other, math , programming and real life. Thank you so much for Luay!

What the professor explains he explains well, but there is a lot of stuff in the homework assignments that is not explained

This class gets very math and theory heavy, so I would not recommend it for those looking for programming practice with the algorithms/programming approaches presented in this class. If you want thorough theoretical background information, this class would be a better fit.

The use of RNA secondary structure alignment as an example of dynamic programming implementation is overkill. There are much simpler ways to introduce dynamic programming.

Oh man, I hade so much fun in this course! The lectures and material are very good, and everything is wrapped up in much fun projects and applications where you will learn a lot. I especially enjoyed the more mathematical approach in AT compared to PoC and IIPP, and also the general class structure! Highly recommended!

Another fantastic course from the team at Rice - thanks guys!

Excellent class in the series. Even if computational biology is not your thing, the assignments are really interesting, fun and informative.

This is a challenging course that teaches an invaluable problem solving approach, applicable in many domains.

great, but really difficult for people with poor reading and writing skill to finish.

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The last awesome course on computing science.

Yet another great course in this specialization

Love it.

Great course, problem solving oriented

Challenging and enjoyable!

Great class...Luay's lectures and problem sets were a great continuation to what Joe and Scott started. I suppose I will get started on Course 7 shortly.

Great course to learning computer science!

Course and assignments were very well thought out and informative.

Good!

Great course!!!

Great course!

Definitely learned a lot from the process of doing projects