RP
Dec 20, 2020
Excellent course. Great instructor. Dives right into computer science fundamentals to fully explain the concepts. Good programming assignments. Only thing left to include concurrent design patterns .
CT
Jul 28, 2024
A very complete course, where they explain everything from the fundamentals of concurrency and parallelism to the natural implementation of these concepts in Golang. Great Instructor.
By Niall D
•Jan 23, 2019
1 star lost because week 1 is unnecessary. Cool course, as it is easy to do in a week.
By Juan C
•Apr 20, 2020
There are some errors on tests that have been flagged and haven't been fixed.
By Sebastian R
•Oct 24, 2019
Much better when video is chopped up. Easier for microlearning sessions :)
By Amiya M
•Jan 20, 2021
I guess a final project should be their to develop then it would be great
By Hongyi L
•Oct 28, 2018
I hope there will be a TA in future. The class is great enough.
By Hesham E
•Jun 30, 2020
Perfect course, with mix of theory and practical examples.
By SOHAM D
•Apr 16, 2021
Practical session should be encouraged more
By Yuhao W
•May 23, 2022
less explain on coding parts
By subrata d
•May 18, 2019
It's really a good course.
By Andrey Y
•Aug 30, 2024
Lack of visualizations
By Michael S
•Jan 22, 2021
The course material was very good, and the presenter did an excellent job. I was especially impressed that he gave background conceptual understanding, not just language syntax elements. Slides were pretty good, sometimes very good. But the web site was a mess! At the end, I waited four days (impatiently) for a dining philosophers project to be available for me to grade, so I could finish the course. It never showed up. Finally I went to the forums and responded to someone's request that I review his assignment, and that allowed me to complete the course. There was nothing, nothing in the course anywhere, to tell me that this was either possible or necessary. Why did the web site not give me an assignment to grade when there were multiple students begging to have their assignments graded in the forums? And do course assistants ever respond to forum posts? Very, very bad technical execution of the course.
By Fabio B S R M
•May 14, 2024
The course is good but lacks more caring. The Coursera team that assembled the course forget to cut the videos and give proper labeling to the modules. So we have those bizarre names such as M123_4 , which are meaningfulness, and do not add any values to the course. The forums are "western land" with just "review my assignment that I review yours" requests, which is against Coursera conduct code including, and nobody is moderating those. Also, Prof. Harris could have used much more code. Concurrency is not an easy topic, and you'll have to search for a lot of content outside the course to complete the last assignment. That's a pity, because the specialization is very good and could have ended very well.
By Steffen B
•Jun 1, 2023
My critic is only about the content selection, Prof. Harris is great.
I miss more further concret thread concepts and assignments of go lang, like pools, more channel communication stuff and not so much technically informations about physical computer stuff in detail. Week 1 of this course was to much time on this pure technically topics without "hands on code". If these technically topics more a compact meaty advanced summary accross 10 minutes, i mean, would be better.
By Amit S
•Jun 6, 2020
Content was rushed very quickly. First week content was bit stretched. Although the content was relevant but stretched. Rather reading from slides, content could have being more interactive.
By Matteo P
•Feb 21, 2023
Good course. I think that is good for beginners or someone who has no experience with Go and programming in general. For more advanced, is quite too low in content
By Robert M
•Feb 7, 2021
The class goes in sufficient details through the go concurrency features but more concrete examples would be useful to retain the material.
By xiaoyang
•May 1, 2020
Too much details on concurrency basics, not suited for the ones with other programming language experience.
By Michael S
•Jan 3, 2020
Shabby and messy
By Mikhail K
•Mar 21, 2024
So, as someone taking this course, I already get WHY learning about concurrency is important. But what I really signed up for was to figure out HOW to actually work with it, especially since you said this course is aimed at programmers. So, gotta be honest, the first two weeks felt like a bit of a waste of time for me. I mean, those two hours could've been spent way better. In my opinion, those first two weeks should've been optional videos for folks who aren't familiar with the basics already, 'cause they didn't really connect much with the main stuff we're here to learn
By Max W
•Jun 5, 2021
Light on content, with an emphasis on the very basics of concurrency and Moore's law. I was hoping that an intermediate course would jump right into the Go concurrency concepts instead of spending half the course on remedial concurrency topics.
It may be that the course isn't very fully attended in June of 2021, but I was having a hard time getting folks to review my assignments and/or finding assignments to review (you must review at least one for yours to be graded).
By Daniel R
•Dec 23, 2019
The concepts in this course are critical for any Go developer to know. However the course itself contains all sorts of extraneous information and could easily be done in two modules instead of four. There are many more go topics that could be included in this class instead of wasting time talking about Moore's Law and repeating information.
By Tim W
•May 10, 2020
Content reasonably good. Some errors in quizes and assignments.
Assignments could use better descriptions and rubrics as often they did not test many of the features included in the assignment. Also one of the earlier assignments used knowledge that was not introduced until the following module.
By Peter M
•Aug 24, 2020
Why say something in once concise sentence when you can say it in hundreds of words? There is so much unnecessary waffling in all these Go courses.
Almost all of the first 2 'weeks' is not relevant to Go. Moore's law indeed! Why?
The lecturer loves the sound of his own voice.
By Taewoo K
•Feb 10, 2022
Contents are too basic. And I needed to wait so long time for a peer to evaluate my assignment. The worse, there is no guarantee when the evaluation will be done.
By Gonzalo R
•Apr 4, 2021
The instructions for the assignments are too vague. First two lectures in week 1 are not specific about go.