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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners by University of California San Diego

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About the Course

Are you interested in learning how to program (in Python) within a scientific setting? This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in Python. It offers a gently-paced introduction to our Bioinformatics Specialization (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics), preparing learners to take the first course in the Specialization, "Finding Hidden Messages in DNA" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/dna-analysis). Each of the four weeks in the course will consist of two required components. First, an interactive textbook provides Python programming challenges that arise from real biological problems. If you haven't programmed in Python before, not to worry! We provide "Just-in-Time" exercises from the Codecademy Python track (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python). And each page in our interactive textbook has its own discussion forum, where you can interact with other learners. Second, each week will culminate in a summary quiz. Lecture videos are also provided that accompany the material, but these videos are optional....

Top reviews

HD

Apr 17, 2016

I give this course 5 star because I did Bioinformatics I and I totally enjoy it.

This is where programming can be fun, and practical, and you'll learn some basic biology too.

What's not to love?

HL

Aug 15, 2017

I learned a lot from this difficult and time-consuming course! It covers biological concepts using Python. It made learning Python more interesting for me, since I have always loved biology.

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By Hewan D

Nov 8, 2020

Interesting and challenging course. I have to revise it again to master it.

By David D

Aug 1, 2016

Nicely designed course. Frustrating at times but well worth the effort.

By Crisamei M

Apr 18, 2019

Fun and easy to follow course! And the instructor is not boring :D

By Jinna B

Apr 30, 2020

it is an interesting experience for beginners! really learn a lot!

By Jiashuai Z

Feb 28, 2018

I learned a lot, especially programming

thought in Biology.

Thanks!

By George d V C N

Apr 9, 2018

Amazing use of biological problems/question and python language!

By Nguyệt N Á

May 9, 2020

This course is quite hard for a beginner but it is so much fun.

By Thomas M S

Sep 23, 2017

Very interesting introduction to both bioinformatics and Python

By Joseph R

Mar 5, 2017

Really interactive and challenging. I learned a lot. Thank you.

By David E

May 24, 2020

Great hands-on experience. Very interesting field. Thank you!

By Ahmad A

Nov 30, 2018

Amazing course, I wish every course would be of this level

By Muhamed A

Sep 23, 2021

Awesome course not for complete beginners (on average)...

By Tiffany T

Nov 1, 2020

a little bit hard for the beginner, very interesting tho!

By 戚新明

Aug 30, 2016

The interactive design in the course makes me impressive

By Amine L

Jul 4, 2017

Too bad we can't use NodeJS/Javascript for this course

By Josh H

Jun 3, 2020

Really enjoyable, great information, and challenging

By Shivam S

Jan 31, 2019

Great introduction to the field of bioinformatics.

By 李嘉鑫

Jul 2, 2017

Because of the course,UCSD is now my dream school!

By Aulia M

Oct 8, 2016

Really helpful to understand basic bioinformatics.

By jamshaid s

Aug 29, 2019

Amazing Course. Highly recommended for beginners.

By Dr. R P P

Oct 21, 2020

Very useful and well organized course structure.

By Daxin W

May 6, 2020

Great course, I am no my way to bioinformatics!

By Feiyang M

Nov 18, 2016

Good class, great for beginners to get started!

By Erik T

Jul 9, 2016

It really has helped me programming on Python.

By Badr B J

Nov 27, 2020

Challenging yet rewarding.

Fantastic course!