This course was very good and very useful. I suggest all of you. Thanks for everything ♥

Muy bueno para iniciar en el mundo de la programacion, me encanto trabajar con scrath

very nice the metodologic excellent teacher and very funny... thanks

Good course for someone who is starting in programming.

Very good and practice, I learn more of programmming

I enjoyed it, it's really good to start programming.

I love the course. I enjoyed playing and learning.

Excelente introduccion al mundo de la programación

This course was lots of fun and I learnt a lot.

Very easy to interpret and excellent teaching

the mam is super, she teaches efficiently

Really great course. Truly recommend it.

I love this course. Thanks so much!!!

Excellent course

really good!

Nice course!

AWESOME!

good

nice

You will have to make a Scratch account (free) for this course.

Areti is a very clear instructor that explained concepts very well for complete beginners into programming, like myself and I found the course insightful.

1) Presentation - I couldn't help but wonder whether they had a lower target age (teenagers or younger) in mind, which was entertaining at some points but also distracting at other times. // Also, I only realized halfway through the course that it is in fact possible to see what Areti is doing on the Scratch program once the quality of the video is adjusted.

2) Projects/Time Commitment - Going through the lectures and quizzes are not time consuming at all, but the projects (especially the final project) takes a lot of time. It took longer than expected because I felt like much of the practical instructions on how to use Scratch for specific purposes were not provided during the course, leaving me to work by myself.

3) Discussion Forum - When I took the course, the discussion forum was close to being dead (especially compared to some of the other courses that I was taking simultaneously on Coursera). Gerry (mentor) did an amazing job responding to my inquiry, but I noticed that although there were a lot of students talking at the beginning, introducing themselves, there weren't that many discussions concerning the final assignment, making me feel like I was working alone. It would be great if there was more time to work on the final project, and perhaps a way in which students can collaborate and help out others when faced with a bug (ie preliminary project submission and feedback session).

I recommend taking this course, but realistically, you won't be program proficient after 5 weeks. You will, however, learn some basic programming theory, understand how programming works, and learn how to make a fun interactive game on Scratch!

It is easy to understand the course even for a beginner. The instructors are excellent.

Thankyou coursera

This is a very good course for beginners, but it is not up to date with the current version of scratch.

It was absolutely good for beginners

Great introduction to programming

A very interesting and interactive course with helpful quizzes and questions throughout the modules. The two project assignments were really fun to try out, especially the game assignment. I do see the pratical benefits of students reviewing eachothers projects as this would be an impossible task for staff to undertake (lectures not given in real time, no funding for this, etc) but I have a gard time accepting that peers don’t give honest reviews and don’t take the time to double check your code or try out different results in your assignments. If the dishonest reviews are based on hasty half heartened tries or just due to a lack of understanding the English language and the instructions given, I don’t know, but it bothers me that other people’s lack of engagement is what determines your final grade. As for the programming language; Scratch is not something to rely on if you’re Interested in pursuing a career within programming.