Great for building a foundation, but some of the videos are a bit meandering, and in some cases relevant setup / configuration is left out of the discussion.

Content is a bit dated, but you learn a bit at the end when you do the project

Update guidelines and addend follow ups

Informative & Excellent

Amazing course

good

A lot of the examples do not work because the setup is outdated. You can get them work but it takes a while if you have not used the cloud computing tools before. I found videos by the same instructor on YouTube going over similar topics. It seems like this course was thrown together pretty quickly and really does not seem up to what I think Duke standards should be. It really is annoying when even the instructor cannot get examples to work. I think more time could be used to go deeper into configuring at least one of the cloud computing tools.

This course is as good as its leader. On a meme scale, I would say Noah is chaotic good. He seems exceptionally resourceful and pragmatic. Indeed, he shares many valuable tips to make things work and provides a friendly intro to the CI/CD and cloud topics. However, in doing so, he makes messy environments and provides advice stemming from his practical experience over a more structured rationale e.g. creating an issue to upload images to a repo README. His preference for results over ordered process is just not to my liking.

The covered topics are mostly interesting. Though, the course could benefit from a revisit as there are many parts that feel redundant, overall structure of the course feels unclear etc.

Good

Although this course can give beginners a first sense of what cloud computing is, th classes and material could be so much better. Basically all the tutorials absolutely don't work or they work after many hours of searching for a solution that could have been spared if the instructor only updated the course, which doesn't seem to happen. The instructor also refers to some reading material in form of tutorials but in these tutorials (which are meant to be as simple as possible to follow) there are steps missing which again, make people spend so much time looking for a solution. To summarize: I liked having this first contact with the cloud but there's no explanation on why we are doing the steps on the videos. It could be a lot better if they have some fundamentation and explained the structure of AWS services an how each of them work in more detail.

The initial modules spend too much time on un-important stuff, and the later modules are very random with no structure to them. There is no systematic breakdown of each platform features and what they do. It's just tutorials on how to do certain tasks without explaining the task at hand

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