Ratings and Reviews for Django Features and Libraries

This course suffers because the topic is too advanced to be aimed at beginners. Too much of the course is spent explaining concepts like OOP, HTTP Networking, Linux adminstration, etc. Many students seem to struggle because these concepts are glossed over without enough depth. But as a result, people like me who are familiar with these concepts end up having to sit through lectures that don't add anything and are a waste of time. These topics should be well understood by the time a student starts using django, and if not - learning it is not the scope of this class. Also, the forums are not very active, you should not expect to receive much help if you are stuck. Posts months old have no responses. Additionally the professor is nice, but his lectures are a bit chaotic because he is not well prepared. Lots of stumbling, and awkward explanations when the section probably should have been just re-recorded. Overall feels like a MOOC from 2012 that hasn't been updated in 10 years, even though the concepts are on a modern topic. Back then, lectures were transfered from the classroom to video and it was acceptable. But now-a-days there are much better ways to engage and teach a topic than talking over a powerpoint. Lastly, I don't think the way the assignments work is very helpful. So much of it is spent "copying" from example code, rather than writing yourself. Assignments don't really give good requirements, and instead are just a process of slightly changing supplied code to meet the (largely unstated) requirements. The auto-grader also gives poor feedback so debugging is a challenge. I don't think I will take course 4.

Reasonable breadth and depth. Professor Chuck has enlightened me as I try to make progress understanding Django. I recommend making your own efforts to review additional materials (Mozilla's Django and other tutorials) to get the benefits from this course as no course in coding can truly be an only source.

Excellent!!!

Slides and videos are particularly out of coordination with eachother and the assignment. Assignments in general are lacking, and because the material is on 4 different mediums the course itself is falling apart seperately as the seperate mediums aren't getting attention. Week 4 has an error in AutoGrader where it looks for the wrong URL and concatonates the app main to many times. This can be subverted with additional URL paths, but it's ridiculously broken and a waste of time and money.

Excellen course!

to previous courses from this specialisation, Features and Libraries seem a bit chaotic, there are some errors in auto grader assignments and the assignments itself could be better defined (30 minutes to finish the assignment + 30 minutes to make changes, since Auto grader requires things that were never mentioned in the assignment like for example a random DOT at the end of the button's label (you don't usually do that), or forcing students to create inefficient table schema. The course is still worth taking, but could be better.

Great

Great Course

Amazing course! It is designed so well; it tackles a subject of complexity with immense intelligence and empathy for the student. Highly recommended.

I really enjoyed this course , because of the exercises in the course it was quite tasking which made me love it the more and also help me build up my approach in tackling web dev problem ,I also like the way the instructions was given, it was very clear and easy to understand, and really helped alot