Some lab instructions were clearly not defined properly for a student. Additional functions also failed to even work for most students

The final lab instructions need definitely to be updated. Many instructions are missing, leading to confusion.

Lots of error needs to be removed and the labs need to be updated. Most of the labs are not working.

Too many bugs in the course too work through.

labs need urgent update

Final project was not well defined and had misleading information in the project requirements. The course provided "mechanical steps" and should have provided more resources on the purpose and theory behind the implementation of the API with better overviews of functional flows and API interrelationships. There were many students (as is evidenced in the forums) who struggled with the final project.

Up through the IBM Applied AI Professional Certificate the courses had a few minor bugs. However, after spending the time to work on the full accomplishment you hit Course 6. The guidance, coding, etc. is so buggy and error-ridden as to require a much longer time to attempt to figure out what you have to do to work around their system. I thought perhaps I was having issues on my end until I started going through all the messaging associated with the EXACT SAME ERRORS and it looks as if a number of people who attemted to get through it finally threw up their hands and walked away. I would think these would be recent as just the last week IBM announced the depreciation of much of the capabilities used in the course - but the messages have gone back years.

The result is that I had looked to the Watson platform as a solution in my industry - now I may start looking elsewhere. I just hate throwing away all the time I spent up to this course.

-signed: I used to have hair.

Watson is very hard to use and very very slow. The interface to watson is a web of GUI selections which is bad in my opinion. A clear programmatic interface is better.