I wasn't particularly impressed with this course. I was looking for "developing modern python applications" with some AWS around, but this course was much rather about AWS with very little python development involved.

The instructors were also so-so.. I liked some of them, but we had a bad apple though. I understand this is a very sensitive topic, but let's just say if a high percentage of the students are VERY annoyed by one's style, so can barely watch videos, you're maybe better off on either working on improving your style or finding something else to do..

I'll keep looking for a course giving me more knowledge on modern python development, covering topics like modern Python style, organizing code into packages, etc. :)

I'll begin with the Pros of this course :

1. Morgan Willis & Seph Robinson are doing a good job & are good instructors. Clear, precise & to the point.

2. The hands-on workshops are good & provide you with good hands-on experience.

Now for the Cons :

1. I find it quite difficult to listen to instructor Jonathan Dion because of his

very exaggerated mimics, voice tone, hands movement & accent. It feels more like an acting class rather than a Python\AWS course.

2.I'm currently in Week 3 of the course but I have to say that there's hardly any python here. It mainly focuses on the serverless AWS services ( which is good ) but the 'python' part is scarce.

3. The QUIZ in each week\section has questions that were NOT taught anywhere in the course.

Now regarding Coursera itself :

1. Unlike most other Online Course providers Coursera charges you Per month. Not per course.

So it's like a subscription. You would have assumed that it's a monthly fee for any course you wish to take but it's only for the course you're taking ! you want to take another course ? Pay additional fee....each month.... I personally think that's outrageous.

2. To top that the good folks from Coursera do not provide an invoice when they charge. Only a receipt. Why ? that's their policy.....

I hope Coursera will indeed PUBLISH my review. I think they need this kind of feedback.....

Uri Pessach

IT Manager

1beat.com

Course isn't what I was expecting based on the course title and summary. Curriculum needs to be reviewed from a pedagogic perspective and content feels too much like a classrom "Hello World" without much real world best practice. Not suitable for intermediate AWS users and experienced Python developers looking for best practices for building/deploying Python apps to AWS.

Lab exercises are too much of a 'follow instructions, don't think to much, run the script which will do everything for you". Jonathan Dion is probably the worst lecturer I have ever listened to. Explaining everything with overemphasized gesticulation, not being authentic at all.

I could not complete half of the labs as there was a problem with the links to start them, it kept giving me an error. No one responded to mine and other classmate's forum discussions and not even Coursera support could help me with it. They kept saying to go to the forums for help and did not acknowledge me when I told them I wasn't getting responses and not even other classmates questions were acknowledge after waiting a month I gave up reaching out. I tried in a few different forum topics but no use with no mods watching these. Felt like I did not receive the full learning experience and practice that I needed.

A well-done introduction to lambda functions (micro services) usage in the AWS environment. Of course, one needs to spend more time to read the course notes in order to have a grasp of the subject, but the teachers team is doing an excellent job !

Nevertheless, the videos might be a bit outdated, as for some of them I couldn’t find the same look on the current AWS Cloud9 IDE site as shown in the videos, yet with a bit of search one can find the way to do it.

Good job, Keep it going !

I learn lot of things in this course and the instructors are very amenable and knowledgeable. This course contains a lot of information to be able to develop application in AWS. However, it has so much info about AWS that it cannot go very deep into the development of the actual code. I would've like to have a section on developing for AWS SDK. The labs give you the code already done and you can look at it and figure out what it does by yourself.

Excelente curso, super completo!! Se presenta un proyecto para implementar end to end muy util.

Las explicaciones estan muy bien llevadas y hay muchos ejemplos dados por los instructores que son utiles para la vida real. Es recomendable como dicen en la introduccion, tener algun conocimiento previo de AWS

Thank you very much for this useful, important and interesting course. All tutors tried to encourage me to study all aspects of AWS content. In total, this course was well-organized and will help me to be more experienced with AWS deliverables.

Excellent course to understand how to use these essential elements of AWS to make small apps. I learned a lot about microservices architecture and good practices using AWS resources.

The course covers important concepts and a variety of AWS Services that are fundamental in developing apps and services in the Cloud.

Ótimo curso, conteúdo muito bem definido e disponibilizado de forma que torna-se fácil a assimilação durante o período do curso

I loved this course. Every subject has been explained very well and in a very clear way. The teachers are great!!

Great course, very detailed and broad about the features of AWS and some tips and tricks on how to use each tool.

It's perfect. You end up working with the serverless AWS services using the knowlegde learned in the course.

Course was well designed and detailed. It gave a good insight on the AWS services and its practical usage.

I enjoyed this course quite a lot . Coding experience may not be mandatory, but it would be a great plus

A fantastic overview of the 'serverless', 'event-driven' design being used in cloud-native architecture.

Very useful and detail classes on Lambda Function and some other AWS services. Highly recommended.

Best ever course for beginners, excellent approach of labs, which makes easy understanding

It was so good everyone need to enroll this course to improve their skills On Aws

Thank you very much for give me the chance to complete this course for free!

Good Course for fundamental develop the Python application in AWS

Muy completo! se ve todo lo relacionado a serverless applications!

Super Helpful to create basic understanding of key services