Good explanation; minimal hands-on experience.

Programming assignments are a bit too easy

Would like more assignments and examples.

The course was nice but a bit too easy.

Good course but very easy assignments

great course, learn a lot!

very useful coursera

I liked too much

Muy buen curso

Good course !

Nice course

Ok

Too much abstract pseudocode for a Java course. In the third test, I had implemented my own solution because no documentation given for that "pcdp framework", also, my implementation run faster, so I have some doubts about that "framework".

The grader is not accurate, I spent some hours trying to find the way to improve the code in the last miniproject because the one I uploaded failed the 4 cores test, but I uploaded the same again and passed the test...

I suggest to improve examples about Phasers, maybe it would be better to introduce low complexity problems in the examples and a step by step explanation on how it works and... where did the threads came from? They never explain threads in this course.

Definitively, this course can't be called a "specialization" but it is a good course for starters.

Course is interesting, but lacks in contents: just few patterns are explained, and few concepts about parallelism, and there are very little details about further algorithms. Assignments, projects in particular, are quite useless or incredibly easy, or need usage or knowledge of libraries not explained/used in course, and included in "optional readings". Lessons are really clear (bravo! to the Professor), but quite short, since whole course doesn't reach 2 hours of lesson. I definitively think that course can be improved with more contents.

Interesting, but the presentations, support materials and programming exercises have some issues.

I'm not fond of the usage of pseudo code, when this is a Java course. I want the example to use existing Java libraries, preferably from the standard Java JDK.

For the exercises, in addition to unit tests that test the performance of the code, it would be valuable to have tests that run quickly, and test that the code computes correctly. For the Week 4, the only provided test took some 9 minutes to run. A unit test should take a second at most.

"While I initially had high hopes for this course, I found it fell short of my expectations. The course material and the questions on assessments seemed to be at varying levels of difficulty, which made it challenging to maintain a consistent pace. Additionally, the assignments felt somewhat underwhelming, and I encountered inconsistencies in grading for the same code. I believe these areas could be improved to enhance the overall learning experience."

Lectures were adequate to understand the basic concepts/syntax and where and how to use them, but did not go deep into the underlying working.

The mini projects weren't that helpful since the assignments were the same examples as shown in the lecture, and the TODOs were generally just a couple of lines, leaving us with with little to do.

By the end of the course, I got to know the different Java util classes to use to for parallelism.

During the course, in order to understand the material in a satisfactory way, I often had to go and search for other materials. The material is presented in a very superficial way. I consider this a weakness. On the other hand, in terms of breadth, it covers a lot of useful topics, which broadened my perspective about what is out there in the parallel programming world.

Helpful course but could be much improved by a bit longer lectures and programming exercises covering more Java material, avoiding mixing in so much on proprietary library concepts and focusing on standard Java parallel programming concepts instead as well as making source code demonstrations in a bit larger font to be able to view on a phone

Subject is very interesting. However course is sometimes unclear, and assignments sometimes are related with the specific library developed by the professor, not with the generic Java implementations. However I'm happy to have completed this course, i've learned a lot.

Although much of the content was informative and well taught, half of the programming assignments were either rudimentary or completely unnecessary since the answer was given in the provided file. On the whole, this course was just too short and too easy.

The videos were very well done. The exercises were a bit too easy in my opinion. But the exercises did focus on the issue at hand, unlike some other courses that get you stuck on complicated but unrelated issues used only as an example problem.

The course is interesting and well explained, but Coursera Grader is a pain: fails in nearly all miniprojects. The last one don't work at all.

Provides background material for the course on concurrency in the same specialization. Assignments are trivial.

I would prefer see examples based on standard Java code, not in a library developed for some small group.