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

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1,485 ratings

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 Tarik A

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Aug 20, 2020

Please add more video course and meaningful assignments instead of all readings. Thanks

By Cristina G

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Apr 29, 2018

It doesnt seem for begginers in coding but still there is a lot of helpful information!

By Sabari K B B

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Jan 1, 2020

Way more to be "digestible" to beginners in bioinformatics and non-computer students.

By Paul J

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Jul 27, 2017

First time coding, so found some parts challenging, but worked it all out in the end!

By Daniel H

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Feb 12, 2019

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

By Michael E L

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Jul 4, 2017

Great intro course even if tedious for those who know next to nothing about coding

By Hamza A D

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Feb 28, 2020

Good course although could be improved with more simplicity and less complexity.

By María J F P

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Nov 14, 2018

This is definitely NOT a beginners course. Very interesting and useful, though.

By Mariane M R

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Dec 18, 2020

/Não é nada fácil e muito menos nível iniciante, mas consegui pensar bastante.

By Juan

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Aug 1, 2020

This is a challenging course for absolute beginners, but definitely rewarding!

By Francesco L G

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Oct 30, 2023

Perfect course but I struggled a lot with coding, not for python beginners.

By Helena C P d A B

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Jul 31, 2016

It's good, but I would prefer that the python was taught within the course.

By Zein A Z

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Jul 6, 2020

too hard for beginners, it started simple and escalated to hard very fast

By SUDARSHAN L

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Jul 29, 2021

It's really difficult for someone without any programming knowledge.

By 王兆愉

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Apr 13, 2021

Not recommended for real beginners who have no programming knowledge

By Abraham M E

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Jul 1, 2018

It is a little bit basic, but a great introduction to bioinformatics

By María A B

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Feb 17, 2019

I have learnt a lot, but sometimes I missed some help or feedback.

By Songji O

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Feb 14, 2024

Basic lectures necessary for cultivating biological thinking

By Chaoying M

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Sep 10, 2021

It's a good course, but of course not for 'real' beginners.

By Kirolos M

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May 31, 2020

Great for beginners ,yet with some to-be-cleared concepts

By marty

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Apr 27, 2020

A little difficult for beginners but definitely worthy!!

By David G

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Jul 18, 2019

Very interesting course. Thanks for putting it together.

By Jixiang P

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Sep 15, 2019

The course is too easy even as a beginning level course

By sabrina m

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May 18, 2022

le contenu est meilleur

difficulté plus qu'un débutant

By Yash G

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Jul 10, 2019

A lot to learn, but still not very east for sure