AL
Apr 23, 2018
The course is fairly advanced and you would need to review the materials many times to understand the concept. The assignments are definitely fun and not as straightforward as other courses.
RC
Aug 24, 2017
Superb study material. Learnt a lot during this course. I am not much into mathematical stuff, but got a hang of how to break problems and improve efficiency through parallelism.
By Janis R
•Jun 17, 2016
Week 2 assignment was very interesting, thanks. Week 4 assignment was extremely hard to debug. Could you perhaps add more unit tests to BarnesHutSite?
By Ivelina G
•Jul 5, 2016
A very good course, the theories are explained well in the lectures and the assignments cover the learned information without being too difficult
By Bruno M
•Dec 3, 2018
Very good introductory theoretical foundation for parallell algorithms, and background for
the Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark course.
By 张诺舟
•Feb 21, 2017
very good course. It will be better if more reading material could be offered. The content in the lecture is a little bit hard to understand.
By Michael D
•May 10, 2018
I learned a lot about improving algorithms to run in a parallelized manner which is more efficient when having more than one cpu/computers
By Rohan V
•Nov 26, 2019
More emphasis on Parallel Data Structures is needed, course is relatively simple as compared to previous courses from same specialisation
By Yin J X
•Jul 10, 2017
Wish Mr. Odersky would've taught this course as well but it quickly lived up to my expectations. I really enjoyed doing the assignments.
By Christoph K
•Nov 27, 2018
Very interesting material, especially the prefix sum algorithms about, how to transform a sequential problem into a parallel problem.
By Oleg O
•Jul 2, 2017
Good course, though there is sometimes too much mathematics, what distracts from the purpose to learn parallel paradigm in Scala.
By Tib O
•Feb 4, 2017
Excellent course, pretty challenging difficulty. Thanks to the instructors for putting together some very interesting material.
By Josue G T I
•Sep 2, 2018
Very interesting, with difficult examples and task. Spent a lot of time analyzing weekly assignments but it was totally worth.
By Roman A
•May 20, 2020
It's an interesting and useful course, but I was surprised it's not contain any information about Futures and Promises.
By Tao W
•Feb 28, 2018
This course is not simple, and the second assignment is hard. But I made it through, and happy with the achievement.
By Bruno F
•Aug 20, 2017
Great course -- I learned a lot.
Parts of it were very heavy too, and not all of the lecture material was examined.
By Kanchi U
•Jun 24, 2021
Concepts are nicely explained and the exercises are interesting and there is enough information to complete them.
By crow f
•Aug 7, 2016
The material in the course is not complete, but it's perfect as introductory course in parallel programming.
By Mehdi
•Jan 14, 2020
Excellent course !!! A must take in my opinion for a better and deep understanding of parallel programming.
By Prashant P
•Oct 25, 2016
This is a great course that helps you develop thinking in terms of parallel implementation of the problems.
By Fernando R
•Apr 22, 2018
The course provides a deep dive into Parallel Programming with Scala, and is well worth the time invested.
By Benji T
•Jun 13, 2016
The content of the course is great, will review this course again as i think i left out some concepts.
By Alexander Z Q
•Aug 27, 2017
Course with excellent content, methodology and teacher. It was an extraordinary learning experience
By Seongsan K
•Mar 3, 2018
I really loved how well organized the course was and how well the professors explain the concepts.
By Patrick M
•Feb 13, 2017
Quite interesting but sometimes I would have spent some minutes more to explain some core concept.
By Djibril N
•May 14, 2020
Great Course. The details are quite the right amount, but more exercise could have been included.
By Paulo R d O C
•Sep 12, 2018
Hard course, but gives good insights about the challenges and solutions for parallel programming.