Excellent overview of Spark, including exercises that solidify what you learn during the lectures. The development environment setup tutorials were also very helpful, as I had not yet worked with sbt.
The sessions where clearly explained and focused. Some of the exercises contained slightly confusing hints and information, but I'm sure those mistakes will be ironed out in future iterations. Thanks!
By Arthur-Lance
•really great course, it help me fast get into the new area. thanks a lot!!!
By Giuliano C
•Excellent course, my only suggestion would be to split week 4 into 2 weeks
By 张腾
•Good course with well-designed assignments, I got a lot from this course!
By Matthias T
•Great introduction to Spark accessed through Scala. Didactically awesome.
By Andreas K
•It was a pleasure to follow the video lectures and solve the assignments.
By RAMESH K M
•Instructor has been explaining the concepts with more practical direction
By Fabio P
•Best course so far in the Functional Programming in Scala Specialization
By Karim M
•Amazing course, i learned a lot even if i'm working with scala and spark
By Deleted A
•Easy to follow. Really well explained and planned. Strongly recommended.
By Ronald C M
•The best way to get to know Spark Fundamentals and Spark Core libraries
By Francisco D
•Accurate content and good explanations. I have got fun with this course
By Mostafa J
•Very challenging but I learned a lot.
Thanks a lot, Dr. Heather Miller!
By AOC
•Very engaging and tutor showed excellent delivery. thanks to Coursera.
By Rafael M C
•Content was useful, overall a good course. Lectures were kind of dull.
By Beibit
•Very nice course. Good level of explanations, good examples and pace.
By rohith a k
•It is indeed a very good course, but 2nd assignment was tough though.
By Andrew P M
•Excellent course with great content. Really helped me in my day job!
By Kyle A
•Very real examples for the exercises and a great way to learn Spark!
By Khaled J A
•this is an outstanding course to learn BIg data with scala and spark
By Carlos S
•Very good !! ... Thanks Heather Miller for such cool class !! (Y) <3
By Martin P
•From easy to hard, not very long, but very practical!
Thanks Heather!
By Martin M
•A very nicely paced introduction to spark and all of its major APIs
By Vishwanath G
•Learnt a lot with this course. Excellent explinations of concepts..
By Milorad T
•The best in the specialization. Teacher is such easy to listen to.
By Johan R
•Very good introduction which gets you to be productive on your own