Learner Reviews & Feedback for Distributed Programming in Java by Rice University

Really great videos and instruction. The class covers a broad swath of topics, which is great but fails to get really in depth in any one topic, as a learner you will need to dive deeper into topics that grab your interest. The projects are a little easy but are well organized and self contained. Considering the difficulty in creating projects for distributed computing environments I think the instructors did a good job.

Programming assignment can be made a bit tough.

very great!

Nice course. Gives a good overview of Distributed Programming!!!

Good experience

concise and clear

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Excellent course! Vivek is an excellent instructor as well. I appreciate having taken the opportunity to learn from him.

All the good stuff application to clusters and cloud computing:

MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, Sockets, Remote method invocation, Serializing/Deserializing, Point-to-point communication, Socket multicast/broadcast, SPMD model with MPI, Thread vs Process, Distributed Actor, Distributed reactive programming.

Lessons are short and easy to understand and the mini projects are complex enough to get a better grasp of the theory.

This is a great course for me.

Great surface level coverage of basic theories and Java frameworks for Distributed Programming. Projects are very simple and quizzes can feel a bit too specific to the lectures, but those two things just make it easier than it is in the real world. I took a similar class back in college but this was a nice refresher on thinking about first principles and modern new libraries.

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Excellent

Very clear overview. Helpful for my understanding of distributed system.

Great professor !

Amazing Course, was able to learn new things and had the best experience

I really liked the course. Great videos and lecture summaries! Maybe the assignments could be more sophisticated.

Awesome material! :-D

Frustrating at times but overall good.

Solidly worth the money!

The lectures and references are perfect, and the perspective is super helpful. The exercises still need work, but they still provide a good foundation for learning this material.

For the maintainers, a good model for compound assignments of graduated difficulty is the sbt-moderated grading for the scala sequence. I think you did a very good job within the (maybe self-imposed?) constraint of single file upload, but this is the only major area allowing any improvement in this excellent course!

First two courses are better. This one is quick and a little vague

I would expect more indepth details about topics

The course was well laid out and introduced me to some new concepts.

It forced me to recall OpenMP and MPI. Thought it's already dead in favor to IMDG, spark, upc and so on.

Practical tasks - miniprojects - was too easy to implement. Need more complex tasks.