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Regarding the course "An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language" on Wolfram U.

Has anyone completed the course "An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language" on Wolfram U?

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Are there any plans to re-launch this course? I am a student, and I'm not very satisfied with my university's teaching quality. Often, the material is presented dryly and without real examples, so I have to look for additional sources of knowledge. This course seems useful, and I want to take it. So far, I am trying to keep up with my studies due to the many additional classes. I use https://ca.edubirdie.com/ to do tedious work. I hope the course will be available again and I can take it.

POSTED BY: Calvin Harper

This self-paced interactive course is freely available on Wolfram U and you can get a certificate of completion or a level-1 certification. See the course catalogue for details information and link to access it.

I did, just not this iteration. I believe this iteration has some more extensive content regarding LLM and ML.

Not yet!

I have started a couple of weeks ago, doing the units in sequence. I watch the video, then read the compagnon notebook (redoing and toying with most of the given exemples), and finally answering the exercises.

I have completed units 1 to 19 so far, although I have a lot of trouble with the automatic grader for this unit: only one answer out of 15 was marked as "correct"! Which is unexpected since even question 12 is marked as incorrect even when using the code given in the video! In other words, even the solution provided as an exemple of question 12 in the course does not work!

Nevertheless, in my opinion, it's a good training that allows us to explore the many facets of the Wolfram Language.

What is your experience with this course?

I have completed units 1 to 19 so far, although I have a lot of trouble with the automatic grader ...

Probably an LLM is working under the hood ...

POSTED BY: Henrik Schachner

Yes, you are probably right in assuming that an LLM is at work here. My guess is that some updates have not been made to the AI or that some changes have been made to WL that have broken the grader on this specific chapter about dates and times computations.

Hi Jean-Marc—sorry for the late response, but I just wanted to note that we do not currently use LLMs for the grading process. I also would like to say that whenever you run into a bug, please email us at wolfram-u@wolfram.com and we will do our best to address it!

POSTED BY: Arben Kalziqi

only one answer out of 15 was marked as "correct"! Which is unexpected since even question 12 is marked as incorrect even when using the code given in the video!

I'd suggest consulting the answers chapter in the book. The course is based on a book with the same name (completely free, of course) and with the added bonus of a chapter for answers. However, despite the exercises being largely the same, there might be some misalignment across the two. So, it might be a good idea to open the chapter at hand on the book as well.

All this aside, it usually has been the case for me that I was misinterpreting the question or the exercise and the code I provided was deficient in some way.

Thanks a lot for the pointer, Muhammad, I wasn't aware that the book was available online. I'am going to check the bonus chapter for this unit.

I couldn't agree more what you said about "misinterpreting the question." It happened to me on some of the previous chapters (here we are talking about a handful of questions for eighteen units). However, I would be really surprised if I misinterpreted 14 out of 15 questions just on a single chapter!

But I might be wrong and I will check first the bonus section of the book.

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