It was great. It was an enormous challenge from start to finish. Lectures, it seemed, never mentioned the homework. Nobody offered source code, and it was virtually impossible to complete assignments without mapping your work out on paper and thinking on it for an hour first. I was incredibly lost the entire time, and I absolutely loved it.
Another cool thing about it? It culminated in a project and a presentation of a dataset of our choice.
Bri and I invariably chose something depressing (though tragically relevant to the times), but it was a great challenge, since we were complete and total beginners when we did it.
The project is included below. Run it in google colab.