The language of the lecturer is soo noisy and can't understand the words.

After Listening to the first lecture itself I'm unenrolling from the course.

It's hard to follow, definitely not for beginners. But I have learned a lot of stuff about about different algorithms and BIG O notation.

Feedback in assignment is not good enough.

For example, for the points and segment, there are no correct answer in output as a reference.

Teachers and faculties are not very good at explanation. Moreover all of them had boring faces like they are not interested to teach us.

The content should be more beginner friendly. It quickly transitions pace to intermediate level. I found week 3 to 5 very difficult.

The programming technique - like DP, Greedy could have been better. I had to go to other website to better understand the concepts.

Poorly explanied in half of the course like Dynamic Programming, and all Pavel parts exluding the Change Problem

Course was not clearly explained. I had difficulty following along with the course materials.

Some Algorithm are not clear, and the homework submission system is not friendly at all!

Things are just too complicated. Course could have easily been made easy to understand.

Teaching technique can be better and more interesting. Not so suitable for beginners.

Was useful to week 4

after that the explanation of the algorithms became very poor

Need To improve more about clearing the topics and also the assignment.

Videos are not sufficient to clear all the assignment problems.

The course is not very specific for my subjects .

I genuinly couldn't follow it,Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too fast explanations in DP section

it's very hard

outdated

not good

Great material terrible support.

The course material is top notch, the teachers are good the course is concise and on topic and the assessments are well targeted and interesting. So what's my problem? It's the terrible automatic review system and the non-existent educator support.

I using rust for this course as it's a language I like and being low-level it's relatively well suited to this kind of thing. However, rust is a language which heavily embraces external crates (libraries for most other languages) and therefore sometimes crates are needed for even relatively simple things. In this instance I needed a crate to help me sort f64 values (it is possible without the crate but it's quite a faff). I therefore put a message in to asking about how to use external crates as the system doesn't seem to allow it. After a month and two support tickets with Coursera (both times with their representatives contacting the Educators) I have still yet to hear a reply.

Having done a bit of digging, only one of their educators has ever replied to a discussion (he has 708 replies total which is extremely few considering 300,000 people are enrolled and the specialisation has 6 modules) and he has no recent replied.

As an additional point the automatic grader does not appear to be being maintained. In one instance my code failed to compile because it contained the .split_once() function. This function was to the language added in May 2021 meaning that at a minimum the rust compiler they are using is almost two years out of date.

I have just finished inspecting the first course, algorithm toolbox, to get a taste of the whole specialization and to compare other offerings in this e-platform.

I understand this is a difficult topic to teach but this is exactly the whole point of teaching ! Making complex topics simple to learn and digest.

This is my critique of the course in simple terms:

a) Quality of presentation slides; poor

b) Foreign english accent makes it difficult to follow

c) Disconnect between topics, I felt the three main techniques covered in the material were disjointed somehow. E.g. dynamic programming has serious gaps and the whole lessons felt like a big black box that you need to fill up with external resources (youtube, khan academy, google search)

d) mathematical background and terminology / jargon used overly bloated.

Great material, review- but course setup is not efficient. programming assignments are failed with zero useful feedback, so debugging is unnecessarily too time consuming. In practice error messages are more informative. I am all for encouraging independence and not hand holding, but when the grader says "failed test 7/16, unknown signal 11", Just telling students to "test your code more" is not a good use of their time nor an efficient and effective way of teaching.

Don't sign up for this course. The content delivery is poor. The way they designed the course homework is to test your code with many test cases. If your code fails, they don't share it with you what the test case is. You will spend a lot of time wasting to understand what's the problem with your code or algorithm. You can learn way more by spending same amount of time.

Would give a negative star rating and it's too much information to process my brain is overloaded with crap and bs. Hate to say it but I have disability and NO time for stupid wordy instruction OR computer coding issues. Sandbox I ended up HATING!! It's NOT for everybody in my opinion. Leaving this course like heart attack!! What a wasted month into summer!