About this course: In the final capstone project you will apply the skills you learned by building a large data-intensive application using real-world data. You will implement a complete application processing several gigabytes of data. This application will show interactive visualizations of the evolution of temperatures over time all over the world. The development of such an application will involve: — transforming data provided by weather stations into meaningful information like, for instance, the average temperature of each point of the globe over the last ten years ; — then, making images from this information by using spatial and linear interpolation techniques ; — finally, implementing how the user interface will react to users’ actions.
Taught by: Dr. Julien Richard-Foy, Computer Scientist
Scala Center
| Basic Info | Course 5 of 5 in the Functional Programming in Scala Specialization |
| Commitment | 6 weeks, 4-5 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Project overview
- 未分级程序开发: Scaffolding material
- Video: Project setup
- 阅读: Data extraction
- 阅读: Raw data visualization
- 阅读: Milestone: interactive visualization in a Web app
- 阅读: Data manipulation
- 阅读: Value-added information visualization
- 阅读: Interactive user interface
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Great course!
Outstanding set of courses.
Just to counter comments about grader stability and lack of grader feedback - I never encountered this in any of the 5 courses.
I've read a lot of reviews before me and see that they mentioned several cons: off-topic programming assignment, imbalanced difficulty distribution and instable grader, vague feedback information.
For the few points mentioned above, I'd say I've experienced all of them indeed, it's true.
But for a project that's to be called "real", you're gonna have to adapt yourself to production environment and work like a true professional. That means you gotta tolerate faulty situations and ambiguous specifications. (Quite often, you don't know WTF they want, but you'll eventually come around and hand in a piece of code that runs smoothly with the right output.) It's something you deal with every day if you work in a tech firm as an SDE, RSDE, etc..
In terms of this kind of blank-filling programming assignments, it's just fine for me. Some argue that they should allow us to write everything from scratch and judge the grades by the output, allowing more flexibility for the developemt process. I think the skeleton code is simple enough, leaving enough freedom for you to mess around. If you allow me to start from scratch, I'm gonna finish it with C++ or Python.
The one thing I say they should really fix is the instability of the grader. Random failures and insufferable waitings are the two things that take away most of the fun. The programming assignment itself wasn't so hard, but was made unnecessarily much harder by these two factors.
For the sake of the previous four courses, I can spare 4 stars. But I understand those 1 stars.
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Great course and specialization! Many thanks!