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With all due respect, Prof. Severance teaches from the perspective of someone already well-versed in Python, rather than catering to students encountering it for the first time. He frequently uses terms like "blah, blah, blah" (I counted 16 times) and relies heavily on visual annotations—circles, squiggles, and “trees”—that make the provided notes difficult to follow on their own. Phrases like "this is this" and "that is that" appear in the notes, which lack clarity without additional context. I often found myself pausing the videos after nearly every sentence to take screenshots, turning a 10-minute lesson into an hour or more. I had to create my own reference system, noting things like "the purple squiggle means X" and "the yellow circle means Y" to make sense of his explanations. While I have no doubt that Prof. Severance is knowledgeable and a good instructor, the extra effort required to interpret the material was overwhelming. The first two courses I took—Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) and Python Data Structures—were manageable. However, Using Python to Access Web Data became extremely frustrating. Ultimately, I decided not to continue the series, as the time and financial investment required to decipher the notes would be too much. I would challenge the professor to review his own notes without any visual reference to better understand the student experience.