Nature, in Code: Biology in JavaScript

I liked this course but it has some deficiencies. If you come into this course with little or no programming experience, you will quickly learn JavaScript and how it applies to some interesting biological principles like genetic drift and natural selection. You will probably rate this five stars. The instruction progresses orderly and the applications using JavaScript are an interesting and unique way of learning some biology. That part is great.

If, on the other side of things, you have more of a computer science background you will probably not like the bad programming habits that the course instills on wannabe coders. Like so many "programming" courses these days the focus is on getting people to write code as fast as possible by sacrificing methodology.

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