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It was a good course. I love it especially because it covers linux for beginners like myself. Cindy as an instructor was quite good. However, it kinda felt like she never actually taught in a live classroom environment as a real teacher before. The reason I say this is because the way she explained stuff didn't seem like she was aware there were actually students who were listening to the lecture.

For people who had some sort of experience with real live classroom teaching would be aware about their articulation, delivery, and points that need to be made clear to students. The instructor always talked really fast (mind you there are many non native English speakers joining this program too, I am one of them).

Every time she typed something she would just type type type enter! It was at times so fast I couldn't even have the time to pause it (or have real difficulty to time it right to pause). I paused a lot of the instruction when it comes to the Linux materials. Because I never tried Linux before and I am so interested I want to try it along while following the video.

Another thing that's bothering me was why would they put the information about VirtualBox at the last week of the course?? I was already using the VirtualBox to practice all the Linux materials as I go through the course. I didn't even expect that they would actually give the info about the VirtualBox. I mean why? Why would you tell us that on the last week? Don't you think it is an absolute beneficial to the learners if they knew that from the start? So that they could install the virtual machine and have Linux (or windows) on their computer? That way they could practice it first hand along with the course. I literally almost shouted "WHAT?" when I got to the part where they were telling us about VirtualBox.

So my humble suggestion to anyone taking this course do yourself a favor and install VirtualBox on your computer so you could install Linux and learn by actually practicing it along the course. You can look videos on how to install it on Youtube. I watched a video on Benjamin's Tech channel called How to Install Ubuntu 20.04 on a Mac using VirtualBox (2020 Version). It really helped me tremendously understanding Linux because I got to do it along the course following all the instructions.

The last thing I want to mention is prepare yourself to be frustrated with qwiklabs. To be honest the majority of the time I had almost no trouble working with it. But, as other people wrote and complaining it does give you a headache sometimes. My only real problem with qwiklabs came at the final assignments. It didn't record my score correctly (I screenshot every steps and results). But anyhow I still passed and didn't want to bother more by contacting the customer support.

However, overall this is a really good course and I had a great time doing it.

As for the the instruction or the delivery of the course it definitely needs an improvement. It is not however the instructors fault. Cindy as I said as an instructor gave her best and was pretty good throughout the course. I would like to suggest to Google to make all the instructors to actually teach as a real teacher in a real classroom before making them the instructors on these courses. The experience of that would be really significant because they would actually be a teacher and not just an "instructor".

I always think that a "teacher" just sounds more human than an "instructor".

All and all, thank you Cindy and Google for making this course. It allows me to start learning about Linux and CLI in general in a "light version" kind of way. I guess see you in the next course.

Due to the quality of the previous networking course, I came into this course not having faith in the quality of videos.

This course turned out to be much better!

However, I pre-emptively decided to learn this course in a different manner, focusing less on watching the videos and more on practicing the commands. Here are some tips before you start the course yourself:

1.Download virtual box and install a Linux distribution as a virtual machine so you can practice along from the beginning of the course!

2. If you are not confident in the lectures then maybe consider a more practical approach. When you start a new week, note down all the topics which will be covered. From this you can start by finding the relevant commands you need to learn and can then start to practice. If you need help then you can supplement with the course lectures or external youtube videos.

3. Make sure you learn week 1's material well, make sure you can navigate and work with files and directories for both Linux and PowerShell.

4. If you are a practical learner consider using the labs to learn. What i did from week 2 onwards was to just do the labs straight away. All these labs contain detailed instructions and helped me learn by practicing. (NOTE - Week 6s lab removes the instructions to test you - managed to complete this anyway -so can you!

5. Once you have passed the labs (which are the main assessments), you can now go over the material again in PowerShell and your Linux virtual machine or even do the qwiklabs again, consolidating what you have learnt in a more practical and time efficient manner.

Overall, this course (the lecturers) seem to be better than the previous one, a strong point being the actual syllabus.