Learner Reviews & Feedback for Parallel Programming in Java by Rice University
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Dec 13, 2017
This is a great course in parallel programming. The videos were very clear, summaries reinforced the video material and the programming projects and quizzes were challenging but not overwhelming.
Aug 28, 2017
Great course. Introduces Parallel Programming in Java in a gentle way.\n\nKudos to Professor Vivek Sarkar for simplifying complex concepts and presenting them in an elegant manner.
151 - 175 of 192 Reviews for Parallel Programming in Java
By Nanditha K R
•Sep 14, 2020
The concepts are explained well. Quizzes and mini project has good details to understand the concept better.
By Abir M
•Aug 12, 2020
Could have had more demonstrations, or even examples for reference. Overall, it was a very good course.
By Marcin K
•Nov 23, 2017
More details on concurrency would be a huge benefit to course and students (even as optional material)
By Johannes D
•Sep 29, 2017
Good course that gave you a good overview. The code assignments code have been a little more advanced.
By Arun N
•Sep 17, 2017
Simple delivery, very manageable work load, and still something tangible to take away from the course.
By Ivan K
•Jan 16, 2019
It was useful and interesting course, however, I'd like to see more complicated practical tasks
By Xiao X
•Jan 25, 2018
-1 star due to the too-easy homework.
I wish the homework can be harder and more challenging.
By Fu S W
•Aug 14, 2017
it'll be perfect if mini projects can deeper test what we've learned in the class.
By Isaac A
•Dec 27, 2018
Enjoyed this course a lot! Wished the projects were a little more substantial
By prabhakar k
•May 28, 2020
thanks to coursera.to give a simple way to solve parallel programming
By Prabhakar k
•May 28, 2020
i learn new way to do parallel programming in java.thanks to coursera
By Wei H
•Jul 14, 2018
the lecturer should wear black shirt to make the video more readable.
By Vishal V
•Mar 10, 2018
Great Learning and understanding the parallelism concepts in java
By satwik b
•May 01, 2020
please be more elaborate regarding programming assignments
By Prasanth R
•Feb 10, 2018
The homework was too simple, could use better examples.
By Cong X
•Oct 16, 2017
Overall informative but way too easy on the projects...
By Xiao L
•May 30, 2020
Programming assignments are a bit too easy
By vini g
•Apr 06, 2019
Would like more assignments and examples.
By Alexander S
•Nov 12, 2017
Good course but very easy assignments
By Ping G
•Sep 21, 2019
great course, learn a lot!
By Jairo A O C
•Sep 24, 2020
Muy buen curso
By TAHA K
•Aug 18, 2020
Good course !
By Moturu N
•Dec 09, 2019
Nice course
By Divam K
•Oct 12, 2019
Ok
By Anton M
•Apr 18, 2020
While i've definitely learned something new, there are some frustration points:
> Material presentation and abuse of pseudo code. Some concepts presented at very high abstraction level without going into details of implementation. Part of course relay heavily on custom parallel programming library, writing in java while other parts are given in built-in Java framework. In lecture summary code is presented as pseudo code, so there are not way to run and see that it does.
> Length of the course. Most of weeks has about 30 minutes of videos in total.
> Issues with grader. Grader is not reliable, you can find that same code sent twice will result in fail and pass. Also, when running test locally, it may fail, while passing when send for real (in my case it was because test code from assignment incorrectly gave number of processes when hyper-threading is enabled)
> Easy exercises. Apart from grader issues, assignment itself do not gave any challenge. Assignment of one week can be passed by just changing signature of method to right one (literally just few characters change)
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