Learner Reviews & Feedback for Parallel programming by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Apr 24, 2018
The course is fairly advanced and you would need to review the materials many times to understand the concept. The assignments are definitely fun and not as straightforward as other courses.
Aug 25, 2017
Superb study material. Learnt a lot during this course. I am not much into mathematical stuff, but got a hang of how to break problems and improve efficiency through parallelism.
51 - 75 of 256 Reviews for Parallel programming
By Yin J X
•Jul 11, 2017
Wish Mr. Odersky would've taught this course as well but it quickly lived up to my expectations. I really enjoyed doing the assignments.
By Christoph K
•Nov 27, 2018
Very interesting material, especially the prefix sum algorithms about, how to transform a sequential problem into a parallel problem.
By Oleg O
•Jul 02, 2017
Good course, though there is sometimes too much mathematics, what distracts from the purpose to learn parallel paradigm in Scala.
By Tib O
•Feb 05, 2017
Excellent course, pretty challenging difficulty. Thanks to the instructors for putting together some very interesting material.
By Josue G T I
•Sep 03, 2018
Very interesting, with difficult examples and task. Spent a lot of time analyzing weekly assignments but it was totally worth.
By Roman A
•May 20, 2020
It's an interesting and useful course, but I was surprised it's not contain any information about Futures and Promises.
By Tao W
•Mar 01, 2018
This course is not simple, and the second assignment is hard. But I made it through, and happy with the achievement.
By Bruno F
•Aug 20, 2017
Great course -- I learned a lot.
Parts of it were very heavy too, and not all of the lecture material was examined.
By Bulat S
•Aug 07, 2016
The material in the course is not complete, but it's perfect as introductory course in parallel programming.
By Mehdi
•Jan 14, 2020
Excellent course !!! A must take in my opinion for a better and deep understanding of parallel programming.
By Prashant P
•Oct 25, 2016
This is a great course that helps you develop thinking in terms of parallel implementation of the problems.
By Fernando R
•Apr 22, 2018
The course provides a deep dive into Parallel Programming with Scala, and is well worth the time invested.
By Benji T
•Jun 13, 2016
The content of the course is great, will review this course again as i think i left out some concepts.
By Alexander Z Q
•Aug 27, 2017
Course with excellent content, methodology and teacher. It was an extraordinary learning experience
By Seongsan K
•Mar 03, 2018
I really loved how well organized the course was and how well the professors explain the concepts.
By Patrick M
•Feb 13, 2017
Quite interesting but sometimes I would have spent some minutes more to explain some core concept.
By Jiby N
•May 14, 2020
Great Course. The details are quite the right amount, but more exercise could have been included.
By Paulo R d O C
•Sep 13, 2018
Hard course, but gives good insights about the challenges and solutions for parallel programming.
By Srdjan K
•Oct 25, 2016
Pro: A very good course for those who are already experienced in Scala
Con: Only 4 weeks long :)
By Artur R
•May 24, 2018
This is one of the most dense and solid courses on Coursera and I really enjoyed tackling it
By Alexandr M
•May 30, 2017
Problems of data structures for parallel computation are explained very well in this course.
By Qiao L
•Jul 23, 2016
A very good hands-on course. It's the best parallel programming on line course so far I see.
By 李帅鹏
•Apr 30, 2019
Perfect! Learning Parallel Programming, I can learn more about Spark and Flink. Thanks
By Jose R
•Sep 28, 2016
It's hard enought to test your skills in Scala parallel programming, results pay off.
By Dmitry B
•Aug 09, 2017
Excellent course with great combination of theory and practical Scala assignments!
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