Learner Reviews & Feedback for Blockchain Basics by University at Buffalo
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This is an introductory course to Blockchain. The supplemented material (in other words self-study) is excellent and in my opinion is the only way to master the concepts and details of this discipline
I find this course helpful to absolute beginner and for one who wants to grasp the basic concepts of Blockchain . The tutor tried to explain most part with simplicity and good and sufficient details.
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By Pasupuleti S
•It was useful
By Sumit S
•Till now good
By Prof. S
•Good Course.
By Nitin S S
•Good course.
By ABHISHEK K
•Good overall
By Ritik G
•Nice Course
By Amana R
•good course
By ABHIMANYU B
•nice course
By Abhishek G
•nice course
By Alpana M
•Interesting
By Sagar K
•It was good
By Alexander S
•Very good.
By Anup K P
•Excellent
By Ignacio Z
•Good!!!!
By Abu S A 2
•good
By Prashant K M
•nice
By VIGNESH K S
•good
By S R A
•Good
By Anushree H P
•good
By Priyadhara P S O
•Nice
By boulealam c
•good
By asha k
•good
By Bidyut B D
•fine
By Jean-Alexis A
•• Videos: not too bad, but clearly too short! The amount of videos could be at least doubled, with additional explanations, visuals, examples, etc. We call here "weeks" something that can easily be achieved in less than 1 hour. One Coursera certificate for a few hours of browsing the Internet? That's not PoW! Also, it feels I spent most of my time reading external resources.
• External content and reading: is always marked "optional", when it shouldn't. This is the only way to learn something and understand this course, and the answers to quizz questions can be in the external content. The links sometimes don't even match the order of the course. In addition to that, the time to read (10 min, 15 min) is often underestimated.
• Quizzes: are trivial. I could have finished the course by simply clicking "Next" all the time. Would it be complicated to add more questions (at least triple the number), and increase the relevance and level of difficulty? The time to complete (30 min) is overestimated (should be 30 seconds in some cases). The final assignment is relatively easy.
In short I would have expected more videos and original content, less readings (or only as further readings), decent quizzes.
I would strongly advice to follow the following course (in complement of the "Blockchain Basics" one): https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency.
By Muhammad A S
•I am disappointed with the depth and quality of this course, which is a shame because I think the instructor is quite knowledgeable about the subject and the VM prepared for the lab assignment by the course team is of very good quality. The things which were below my expectations include the following: (1) Very bad subtitles and transcript; sometimes even completely opposite of what the instructor is trying to say, (2) Several times concepts are discussed as if they have been covered in an earlier lecture and then we come to know that they would be in a future course. At least some basics should have been covered. For example, on block hashes, the lecture discusses receipt hash and transaction root hash without telling what they are. (3) The final assignment was just click, click, click and submit. The purpose of an assignment is to get people's mind working so that they develop an appreciation of what they are learning. Instead of just point, click and submit, there should have been some "assignment" in there.
I am keen to take more courses of the specialization, but for everyone else taking this course, I have to say that it's not deep enough. But there are very few in-depth courses available on blockchain and perhaps this is (unfortunately) the best one at the moment.
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