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This is one of the worst beginner courses on here. It is clearly not for everyone. You cannot call it fundamentals without actually teaching the fundamentals. There is a severe lack of detail in these lessons and a big assumption on the part of the instructor that you have previous knowledge of some of the concepts he’s discussing. I have never received assignments before in which what you are supposed to produce is not something you were taught in the lesson. This course at the very least needs to be renamed. Saying C for Everyone is misleading. Instructor would be great for intermediate/advanced courses but to teach a beginner the assumption must be that we know nothing. Not that we have some obscure but limited knowledge of what you discuss. This is the first coursera course I truly felt lost in and am very dissatisfied by. I would hope this course is revised for future terms.

Even when the course description says that you don't need a lot of previous knowledge about programming, this course requires a lot of time searching by your own a lot of information that is not provided, even for completing the weekly tasks. Specially the beginning is quite frustrating and the professor is not really clear in the most of the classes. Also, the videos are quite poor quality, difficult to understand his handwriting and usually not giving basic information that someone who is learning to programming doesn't have. Also, this is the general attitude at the beginning even for access to the basic tools. How the Lab works is also not very well explained. This is surely not a course for someone "who doesn't have previous knowledge about programming".

Disgusting course, don't recommend it. Pros: In general, the course material isn't bad, and initially, I wanted to take all four courses in this specialization. However, after taking one course, I decided not to continue due to its cons. Cons: - The lecturer is awful; he constantly makes annoying slurping sounds. - The sound quality is awful; there is always some background noise. - The lecture materials are horrible; instead of preparing slides, he uses something like a whiteboard with handwritten text. His handwriting is difficult to read. All of these issues make it very difficult to want to take this course. You can find C courses with much better quality than this one.

As a beginner, I thought this course will develop my basic grip on computer programming, but in the contrast, this course is somehow designed for those students who already have some preliminary programming background. I have tried multiple times to download all the necessary tools and compilers, but I have failed miserably. This course did not meet my expectations, and I am extremely embarrassed to continue learning although I secured financial aid. How I am going to perform If I don't even know the ABC of C/C++ programming, this course has proved not to be something that a beginner can digest without any basics.

This man is the worst teacher that i've ever seen! First of all i don't understand why he doesn't do the exercises both on windows vsc and his mac? All of the courses that i've took before and it was for windows and mac the teacher always did 2 videos 1 for windows and the other for mac! The other thing is that this is a beginner course yet he doesn't explain a lot of things! The code he's writing is outdated and if you write the same code in vsc it will give errors! a good example is that the printf function doesn't work anymore and instead the cout << needs to used! 1 star from me!

Explanation is worst, he is just reading the lines not even explaining anything, wasted all my money and I didn't even get certificate.... for certificate I need to pay money wow.....this is just nonsense you guys only work for money for learning money and for certificate money what the hell is this....

I am very sad I joined coursera if I joined in some other website I will get good c programming course and certificate also at low cost.... please don't waste every one's time....

The course was unorganized. A lot of inaccurate code. An example of one was where he declared an array of grade with a constant size. The array couldn't be initialized and I spent at least half an hour to debugged it.

The issue was that "The C99 standard does not allow initialization of variable length arrays ". I had to learn how to use enums or preprocessor macro to fix it which was a topic in the next course "C for Everyone: Structured Programming".

The professor's handwriting note is really hard to read. Homework contains content that have not been taught yet. Many videos teach repeated concepts and some important concepts are not mentioned. The instructor cannot even show a tidy appearance before the screen. Very disappointed to see that this is the largest C and C++ course on Coursera. My course experience on Python, Java and Web Design is far far far better than this course.

There was a good amount of peer-reviewed assignments and quizzes.

However, this course gave just the general overview of the basic concepts and did not dive much into details or give a deep understanding of those fundamental concepts. The instructor's pace is very slow, I had to watch the videos at 1.5x and sometimes at 1.75x speed.

Overall, I am not very satisfied with this course.

It is not for beginners. I started this course to start in the world of programming, so my knowledge is nil. In the description of the course it mentions that it is not necessary that you have previous knowledge, but the reality is that you require a lot. If you are a beginner, I do not recommend it at all. The course probably just discouraged you from learning about programming.

The professor seems to have lost his passion, his attitude toward the students doesn't feel helpful. I got a vibe of the professor being tired and not really passionate about the course. In one instance, he says, "if this is too difficult or you are uncomfortable doing this find help." He was talking about the ins and outs of compilers and editors and how to install them.

The course is not suitable for academic purposes. To delve more into the topic and solve the tasks independently, you need to look at learning material on the Internet. Regular bookings of 40 euros per month are unfair. I still can't find cancellation options. For the first time, I am really disappointed with Coursera-platform.

This course is NOT beginner friendly. You need prior knowledge of what editors and compilers to use, which I do not. He also mentioned in the second video that he wasn't going to take the time to explain which editor and compiler to use and suggests finding help doing so. Very unprofessional for a learning experience. Not good.

Not a course I would suggest to absolute newbies of coding (to whom the course seems to be addressed to from its name). So many concepts taken for granted, exercise sessions on totally different topics from the ones discussed on the videos. Maybe garbage course is too harsh of a definition, but this gets close

my honest opinion is that this is one of the most difficult courses I have taken, I felt like I did most of the effort myself and didn't learn anything from Dr. Ira Pohl, thank you for the course, but please change your style of teaching in the future, be more active in the videos and to the point, thank you.

This course states that it starts with the very basics of programming, yet the first few lessons state it will not teach you how to configure and editor or compiler or even teach you the basics to an editor; although it clearly states in the course summary no prior experience is neccesrary.

Incredibly messy, the teacher messes up multiple time and solemnly writes quite confusingly on a white board. The evaluations are happening a week ahead so you can't really do them with the knowledge you acquired from the course. Don't recommend!

I gave up in the first week. The instructor is very boring doesn't bother at all to teach students how to set up different environments on the computer to get started so you are bogged down in the first step basically.

HWs are very poorly designed, they don't test a lot of notions in the course; they are often vague. Some video lectures mention notions that were not presented in the earlier videos (like reference types etc)

The instructor is hard to understand, skips explaining steps he is taking, and seems to be teaching exclusively to mac users. I can not follow anything he is doing. I will be unenrolling from this course.

not good because after enrolling entire specialisation course then only showing first course after next courses I can't enroll this is very bad I am not happy and dissatisfied with disappointment.

Poor and untidy handwriting makes learning the content very difficult. One has to completely rely on what the professor is speaking (the writings don't help at all)

Thanks for all the effort to teach me the course. The course plan is very good I personally feel very delighted to learn something new skills of coding.

The course was not structured for bigeneers!

If someone does not have any coding knowledge, it is better not to take this course it will confuse you!