This course is loaded with hands-on exercises in the reading, as students are required to import Databricks notebooks, and execute these notebooks to learn the PySpark syntax and functions. I was unable to successfully execute any notebook even though I set up my Databricks workspace as according to the screenshots and the given instructions. The discussion forum is unhelpful because there are complaints from other learners who also encountered difficulties without receive any support from the course admin staff. Unfortunately this is a very poor experience in contrast to the MS Azure DP100 specialization, where I was able to complete all the machine learning exercises on Azure Databricks. It could have been better if I could share screenshot and discuss my technical issues with a support staff from Azure.

Many mistakes in the exercises. They have all been reported multiple times and being mentioned in the discussion forum for more than a year. No one is taking any action to correct them.

The material is very dry just repeating the written content from the learn.microsoft.com website.

The course material is presented really poorly. A women is reading pages after pages from a screen and probably does not understand anything she is saying. The videos are pretty useless for the understanding of how things work and the only thing i will remember is not to delete my databricks instance. Without google and youtube i wouldn't understand any of the key concepts.

Any of the course examples don't work because of a bug so this was just a waste of time.

Labs do not work. A disaster

Labs do not work

Time estimates were inaccurate, lab resources were often linked incorrectly, lab resources required corrections to function

Best course in the series so far, but the exercises were out of date and could be difficult to follow. Some of the exercises aren't free- I've been doing the entire course in one shot so I've already burned through my $200 credit. I was able to use a "free" trial of Databricks, though, so I was able to make it out for under $10 though. It's doable- just be sure to delete your resources! Databricks will still charge you for the VMs that it's set up on so if you want to get rid of those charges when you aren't using them, delete your databricks instance after you're done for the day.

The course labs require Azure DataBricks 7.3LTS which is EOF and not available. To complete the labs you would need to migrate their code to at least 9.1 LTS. Also, the setup scripts don't work with the free trial version of DataBricks and you need to complete your setup manually.

Outdated material, broken links, unreadable datasets

it was a bit outdated and video lectures were not explained properly.

Dated

Poor course that has not been updated with newer Delta Lake features and Unity Catalog, DLT, etc. No support.

Very informative and detailed course. Covered the most pivotal topics related to Microsoft azure databricks. Kudos to Coursera for providing such valuable learnings.

Muy bueno el curso de Microsoft Azure Databricks for Data Engineering, hace un repaso muy completo de los principales temas.

it is better opportunity to learn about the azure data bricks for the data analyst

Greadt course. gained more practicle knowledge

curso muy completo, aprendes muchisimo.

The course is very good

Excelente curso!

Great course

good comtent

Good course

Great

good