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.

Great professor !

thanks

concise and clear

Good experience

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

very great!

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!

Frustrating at times but overall good.

Good course for over view of all the concepts related to Distributed Programming.

Course does not go too deep in arguments, but gives a quite basic knowledge about distributed data structures and algorithms.

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.

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

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

Thanks

Very poor rating system for mini project 4. Why don't you fix the problem?

Covers topics not in the EPFL's distributed computing course. Assignments are trivial.

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

I would consider it as a overview of possible approaches, not a course. Assigments could be frustating because outcome is sometimes non-deterministic (I wasted few hours of my time because of this, it turned out that my solution was fine). Sometimes given examples are not following Java documentation in details. They could not work in corner cases. It should not be the case in the course made by professionals.

Compared to the other courses I took authors of this one did not put much effort in preparing good materials and exercises. Course can by challenging by means of standing the frustration the assigments could give you. And in my opinion not because it is hard to pass them and they are demanding. It is because they are not properly prepared.

I know that this topic can be hard. This specialization touches many important topics which are essential to making working systems.

I have mixed feeling about specializations. It mentions most of the important topics in non-sequential computer computing. But it does not give deep insight in many of them.

Excellent

I would expect more indepth details about topics

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

Programming assignment is some what easy, I think it my be better to require student to finished the complete code.

This is a great course for me.