Can be difficult at times because you need to understand what you did wrong in order to fix it - as with any programming language. The quizzes and graded projects have unlimited attempts, so don't be scared to try answers and see what happens. Join the GroupMe page at the beginning of the semester - everyone helps out there. Also, go to office hours, there are multiple times throughout the week with the TA's.

It is a useful course to understand how programming and biology can come together. The end project is programming a 3-D model of a spike protein from SARS-CoV-2, so that was interesting!

The course is all in Canvas and the professor uses announcements sometimes. The course is well written and there are videos to watch if something was unclear.

Join the GroupMe. While reading through a unit on Canvas, follow along and do the examples on your programming shell. This will save you tons of time trying to do it by yourself in the future.

This class was so easy I finished it in 2 months by working on it whenever I had some free time. He literally tells you how to do almost everything. It's just following tutorials basically.

You learn some UNIX commands and Python functions to navigate databases. The final project was creating a program that could "model" a protein, and you would look for certain structures (H bonds). I think you mutated it too and compared it to the original protein.

Even though it was all recordings, Professor Chevrette was still cool. He had some jokes written in the readings, which helped keep me engaged. I once emailed him about a mistake in the number of times we could take a quiz, and he fixed it immediately and was kind about it.

Literally do it ASAP so that you never have to worry about it again. Take with harder classes so you have more time to study for those classes.