Awesome course. I did the whole specialization, which I can recommend, from parallel to distributed. Vivek is an inspiring guide with a very natural way of presenting. These can be quite complicated topics and though I feel like I have a good (initial) grasp of them now, they certainly ask for further investigation and practice.

This Course was amazing with good mini projects that are sometimes challenging and makes you review the videos one more time to be able to solve it correctly i just learned a lot also it is not just about the code but you will learn about the academic way of parallelism. thanks to Coursera team and Prof. Sarkar.

This was a very well laid out, useful, and interesting course. I have done a few of them and this was one of the better ones by far. Clearly communicated and short lectures. Assignments that are actually useful and focus on what you learn. Course doesn't require a huge time sink so good for professionals.

I liked the course material and the relevant assignments and projects. It is of right difficulty level: gives you knowledge and makes you comfortable with the concepts and tools without making you slog for weeks. I feel students will be able to retain the gained knowledge longer than traditional classes.

very informative. This course has a great balance between theoretical and practical method. Programming Java is a really great. if you are not familiar with Java like me assignment is quit challenging. You need to know a basic API and get used to Java documentation. I highly recommend this course.

Fantastic introduction to parallelism in Java. Starts basic enough for those with zero experience with parallel computing, goes far enough to give more experienced Java devs some things to chew on, gives practical examples for how to apply parallel techniques throughout. Highly recommended!

An amazing course. While the main language is Java, the ideas of parallelism learned can be easily transferred to other languages. Also, the professor was great and had besides the technical know-how, he had as well the rare ability to transfer and explain tough concepts in simple words.

Amazing course. Dr. Sarkar is a fantastic professor. The course materials and the teaching style will make you understand several complicated topics with confidence and ease. After this course, I have a very good understanding of the fundamentals of programming parallelism in Java.

Just after completing the week 3 module I realised that I have a new approach to programming at my work.I am Able to identify the pieces of code that are sequential and are good candidates for exploring parallelism there by potentially improving the over all performance of system.

Concise, well structured and effective. I now know the basics of ForkJoinPool, barriers, split-phase barriers and promises. Also the analysis of computation graphs really solidified my understanding of the relationship between parallelism and speedup over sequential equivalents.

The instructor explain very good, and it is concise yet covered many important things. By doing the programming assignments, it is good to apply what he draw on the screen to become the code on my screen. I hope I could join his other 2 courses in the specialization soon.

very useful concept such as async and future

this course help me understanding parallel programming in Java, I download language X10

please accept my gratitude. the ability to disassemble on the fingers difficult problem is the ability of the truly talented teachers

An excellent course. Thank you, Dr. Sarkar!

During my internship, when I was taking this course, coincidentally, I got an opportunity to use Async tasks , get() etc. Was very happy when I could practically apply the concepts that I learnt during the course.

The video lessons are short and well made with practical summaries. Parallelism is a must for every serious software engineer just as being good with algorithms and data structures. Re-watch the videos and summaries to help you do the mini-projects.

This is a very good course, but I think that it needs more visual elements and more challenging homeworks. However, this course doesn't just offer a "how you can do this in Java", since it will first show you the theory. Great course.

It's a great course, you learn the fundamentals to keep going and challenge your task at work to improve the performance.

I don't find that good that sometimes we have to use the API's provided by the University and not Java libraries.

Decent course. Prof. Sarkar taught so well and I wish I could take some more classes with him. I think more constructs could be introduced and explained with more examples. Programming assignments were easy and could be more intense.

The quality of the material provided is excellent and instructor Vivek Sarkar explains very clear, with good examples and great communication skills. I learned and enjoyed a lot taking this course. Strongly recommended!

This course has lots of invaluable insights, in-depth materials from high level concepts to practice. I highly recommend this course to all programmers who want to familiarize themselves with Java parallel programming.

Well-made videos, good explanation of concepts, great hands-on projects (not too difficult).

Some issues w/ differences b/t dev and grader environments in terms of performance / tests passing, but that's inevitable.

This course is a good introduction to parallel programming. The assignments was to easy. Asides that, everything is great, Vivek Sarkar did a great job to teach fundamentals in easy to understand manner.

Thanks to this course I've learned actual (modern?) Java APIs which helps to embed parallelism into my programs.

And one more important thing: I stated to learn again. This worth to do at any age :)

This is a great course in parallel programming. The videos were very clear, summaries reinforced the video material and the programming projects and quizzes were challenging but not overwhelming.

Great course. Introduces Parallel Programming in Java in a gentle way.

Kudos to Professor Vivek Sarkar for simplifying complex concepts and presenting them in an elegant manner.

I found this course very useful. I can see the utilisation of parallel computing in many fields of software development industry. So it's really useful for developers.