While it does teach the fundamentals as claimed, it's pretty lacking in quality. There are typos, poorly explained assignment prompts, and poorly formatted questions. One good thing about this course is that it goes into a bit more detail about the specifics of the language. However, it is not enough to make up for the lack in content quality as well as poor explanation of the more advanced concepts. Also, the course teaches C89, which can be helpful to know. However, it would be more helpful to teach more modern versions of C, and even then, this course does not clearly spell out the requirements of C89, which means that students do not properly learn the stricter syntax demanded by C89. Overall, this course is not one I would recommend for someone just entering the field of computer programming.

Prof. Pohl is obviously a very scholarly person and he knows his stuff. The lectures are also good if you can get past the handwritten stuff. As others mentioned, you need to listen to this at 2x speed. What makes this course poor are the following:

1. Not covering many important topics or covering key topics like pointers,makefile, memory managment very superficially.

2. Lack of many programming practice problems and no automated testing to really test your solution. So you do not learn much unless you practice elsewhere.

To contrast, the Dartmouth C course in Coursera seems to be better organized.

There are far better courses out there for learning C. This one assumes that this is your first programming language, which is a terrible idea! The instructor is an awful teacher and beyond dull and uninspiring. Added to that several videos appear to be either missing or out of sequence. These problems only get worse in the second course where the material gets harder and the instructor is simply unable to clearly explain himself. Maybe UC Santa Cruz should consider someone other than a retired old professor to be their public face on Coursera?

I wish this was advertised or titles just a little differently. Im somoni who is very new to programming so i expected that we'd be starting out going over the fundamentals step by step. Unfortunately, around video 2-3 of the course, i was smacked in the face with some programs that the instructor made and...how am i supposed to take notes when i dont even know what im being shown on an even fundamental level. Maybe i misinterpreted the course wrong, but ill leave the review based on my experience for now.

If you are someone who has absolutely 0 knowledge of coding, this course doesn't really explain things well and moves along very quickly. You will have to use alot of outside resources to keep up and understand what is going on. Also if your like me (older) and haven't been in a school setting for a while- it uses a lot of math concepts that personally I haven't used in years. Basically this course is for someone who already has a base undertanding of coding- so not for everyone.

while while early weeks of the course are good for genuine beginners, later weeks are really annoying due to assignments that have absolutely no background on how to code various required elements. if you are looking to code but be annoyed at the same time take this course. might as well teach yourself by using google just like how this course forces you to do anyway.

The course material is ok, but the discussion forum is a ghost town and assignment instructions can be confusing. Also, the peer-graded assignment system is not the best option since the course has been launched in 2016 (first reviews in 2016). You need three persons to grade your work. I would give 4 stars if professor staff were involved in the forum.

The course had good plan and order of lessons but the way of explaining was not useful I mean not all details are covered and that made the course is boring and some topics need other sources to understand additionally, there aren’t a lot of code examples or problem solving.

I do not like this course.The instructions are not well enough for online course.The contents are not clear enough to understand.They should have made this course more user friendly.There must a different way for assessment.

The gap of skill level for the tasks is very high. First very easy and then you a task where you need some skills. The quality of the videos is better at some "youtube" tutorials which are for free.

For a beginner, the way of teaching was weak. It remembered me with the way old university professors teach. All sessions were boring, and the teacher's handwriting and tone are bad!

El curso bien....

Otros estudiantes de habla inglesa no facilitan ..... todo el nivel de adaptación a la comprenssión es tuyo, Por consiguiente pierdes puntos en las pruebas de codigo

Not recommend for beginners at all. A lot of point skipped or not completely explained. Poor hand-written slides.

Don't enroll if you are a beginner and need to learn the basics.

Unfortunately I had to drop this course as it is not a beginner friendly and the syllabus is prepared for the people who have underlying knowledge about fundamentals.

I've been learning java for a year, I know many fundamental about programming, and I want to learn c language in this course but course wont learn you clearly.

the lectures were hand written on a board which was not readable

I would suggest the professor to use a typed material like ppt etc

For a beginners course, not many basic topics are explained.Videos could be enhanced using power point slides

the quality of the course drops like a snowball the more we get into the course, it started off great tho

c++ is not explained explaination is way too difficult to understand if u r beginner.

I think this course is helpful but it has some confusion so i hope you will correct it

The professor is just talking as he programs. You arent being taught, but showed.

i could only understand everything because it was taught in my college as well.

teaching is not upto the mark could have used ppt rather than note pad.......

Your writing on the board is very difficult to understand

Compiler should have been integrated with the course .