I disagree with others here --- I wasn't a huge fan of the class.<p>If you took the class, you definitely had to get used to coding in python, and getting used to manipulating data in python.<p>However, when it came time to do anything more interesting than plotting data, the course was very shallow --- many homework assignments boiled down to "fill in this space with a function that takes this as input and outputs that". While, again, that would totally be useful to someone learning basic scientific python, you don't get a good understanding of the statistics.<p>As someone who already had a background in python, I didn't feel I learned as much.