Words are thrown around interchangeably and haphazardly too often for something supposed to be so logical. It doesn't have to be dry but I felt it was made to be so personable that info came out confusing and sloppy at times. The quiz questions felt more focused on learning your specific cue cards than the actual universal knowledge. Sometimes it felt the questions were more tricky than the info itself. Plus, when you get a question wrong it doesn't tell you what specific video to double back to, it just lazily tells you it's somewhere in the entire section. Sometimes it's obvious where the question will be but often things are thrown in randomly to the weekly modules. I found myself confused after watching 7 minute videos only to head to youtube and getting a better explanation in less time for many of these subjects. The info was basic enough for beginners but I felt it left out more practical knowledge. I learned about subnets but I can see subnet addresses on my personal computer but I feel based on what was taught, that isn't where you go to change it? I don't even know? This felt more like a data dump than teaching. I know more but I wish I could have learned more of how to apply it.

I found the instruction needlessly confusing. The instructor sort of rambled making no distinction between needed facts and ancillary information. When questioned, i was asked to respond to questions based on one sentence of content. Their was little to "drill down" on as everything was a mono-tone of boring lecture. Yes, the information was correct, but much of it was presented without benefit of instructive example. Just a little time taken to show the "how" of operations would have made a great difference. Instead, i struggled to maintain interest and in the end i settled for the passing grade ( 92 ) instead of pushing for my best. I felt like this just had to end. Worst, i started to doubt myself and the value of this course. But, shaking that off i intend to go to the next level and do well their. Bits and bytes was disappointing

I feel that the course titled The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking wasn't really what I was expecting it to be. The lessons did not really go that much in depth and I felt that I really didn't learn the absolute fundamentals of computer networking. In most cases throughout this course, I had to find additional materials to help me understand what the course was trying to present to me. Even the provided supplemental readings (with perhaps the Wikipedia articles as an exception) failed to give me any kind of understanding of what I was supposed to learn in that particular lesson. Also, I feel it would have been beneficial to me, as a somewhat networking novice, if the lessons were more hands-on with scenarios of what I might encounter if I were in a networking role.

Honestly, I was pretty disappointed in this networking course. In my opinion, the Coursera team should overhaul this course. Just having one instructor talk about abstract concepts in 90% of the videos isn't helpful for grasping and cementing in new concepts. I'm a pretty visual and hands-on learner, and this course was 90-95% all auditory. These were difficult abstract concepts that desperately begging for visuals, animations, real life scenario videos, simulations and virutal computer labs to help cement concepts. I don't feel I've learned as much as I could have. I'm really hoping the next course 3 OS & other 2 courses going forward won't be as frustrating as I work toward my Google IT Support Pro certificate.

So far this course is only ok. I do not feel like it is giving me a solid foundation. They try to cover so much information, a lot of it very technical in a little time. They tell you to rewatch the videos and read the supplementary reading. The supplementary reading is ONLY wikipedia. And do not get me started on who scripted this--I don't know what I am going to do if I hear the words "I should call out" or "spoiler alert" one more time. The teachers, during the lesson videos seem very inauthentic. Google would have been better just letting the teachers free style the lesson.

The gentleman that led this course did not do a very good job. This entire course i was more confused than anything and had to get a lot of help from outside sources. Most of the valuable content was not explained thoroughly and the instructor would vaguely go over information that just so happened to be on a test. The jokes were so lame as well, I do not feel like this course was for beginners as was advertised. Hopefully you will all read this one day and get another instructor for this course that can do a better job.

There is allot of unneccesary talking, that makes it a little hard to follow. Especially for those who may have a learning disability. I understand the instructor in the video is trying to explain why and how he got interested into the course. But all of the uneccesary added talking should be saved at the end once we have finished the quizes and tests. I personally find it a little hard to follow when there is too much information given at a time. It's giving way to much to remember. It's almost over whelming.

The amount of course material given does not match up with the assignments & its really annoying. Your given all this information and supplement reading to digest and it feels like the quizzes and test aren't built around that. If google is going to give us quizzes and test then let the course material's focus match the focus of the topics on the quizzes don't throw an overwhelming amount of information into one section and then quiz us on half the information!

Course is taught using too much high end vocabulary. It is really hard to follow along when the instructor is using terms we aren't familiar with. Also the videos are broken down in weird lengths, there will be a few 1 -2 minute videos that work well for their topic but then a 6-10 minute video that's packed full of information and feels like its rushed and becomes overwhelming for the student.

Demasiado teórico, siquiera se vió como conectarse con un puerto de consola a un router o un switch y configurar cosas muy básicas, realmente no me gustó nada. Conceptos que no se van a utilizar como saber los componentes de un paquete. Tampoco se vieron cosas como topoligías de red. Con lo bueno que fué el primero este me decepcionó mucho

Way too much information - should've been broken down into two parts. Poor explanation for subnetting. The interactive quizzes were confusing and I had to utilize outside resources. Discussion forums and mentors were NOT helpful. Glad that I've passed the section and am done with this course. I'll use another reource to master the topic.

FIlled with tons of concepts that you can't really get hands-on experience from, at least not through the Coursera outline. Seeing the same "instructor" reading the script at you is just not engaging, especially when he attempts to be engaging with puns. Hopefully the rest of these courses have more tangible lessons.

Not enough detail; instructor goes through things too fast and doesn't try to abstract very verbose things. I'm a tech enthusiast myself, so I understand that not everything can be abstracted; but christ, I was literally going to cry on IPv6 Compression

Mostly the course was boring as instructor just read from the second monitor. I wish they had more animated examples on how thing is working rather than showing the face of person. I had to watch NetworkChuck to understand what was happening.

I was really struggling with this one. I don’t know if its me or the way the information was explained, but I’m just not getting it. I am skipping over this for now, will work on the other courses and then come back to it.

Overly complex and hard to follow. Felt out of order. Maybe for cert provide a more simple beginner friendly introduction to networking and then provide a more advanced networking course that follows Network+ curriculum.

The course was very informative, but with that amount of knowledge I found myself lost when it came to quizzes and implementing a lot of what I had learned.

This course was very dense and at times it really lacked teaching you some of the questions required to answer the tests.

The whole Subnetting part took me forever. I had to learn in with youtube. the course was no help

too difficult to follow, too much information in too little time

Still do not understand how to compress IPv6 addresses.

Hard for me to personally understand.

Very strenuous and challenging

very hard

I lost count on how many times I fell asleep while watching this module videos, the teaching method is beyond boring, the instructor can't captivate your interest, you can clearly see he's reading what he says in the videos, and I seriously couldn't listen to him anymore, they use the same instructor for the 6 weeks of the course on almost every single video! it really seems like they're more interested in making you memorize everything or quit, than to actually make sure understand it, really not the best way to teach this, didn't enjoy this course at all.