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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Writing, Running, and Fixing Code in C by Duke University

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About the Course

Building on the course Programming Fundamentals, this course will teach you how to write code by first planning what your program should do—an important approach for novice and professional programmers. You will learn how to compile and run your program, and then how to test and debug it. This course builds on the Seven Steps you have already learned and provides a framework for systematically testing for problems and fixing them, so you can find and fix problems efficiently....

Top reviews

KK

May 30, 2020

Instructors and the instructors who moderate the forums are great. It is a bit different way to look at programming but it makes sense and I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn C

AE

Jun 14, 2020

It is actually a hard course i guess you need to have at least the basics as some of the assignments were really hard take me a lot of time to do them. especially the poker assignment

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151 - 175 of 178 Reviews for Writing, Running, and Fixing Code in C

By Angela F

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Aug 29, 2020

Maybe the only problem was the instrucctions, but nice work

By Istiaque a A

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Jul 23, 2020

Should increase the amount of video.

By Aquib J T

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Jul 19, 2020

That was pretty tough

By RISHI Y J

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Jun 17, 2020

too hard to code

By Abby P

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Jul 11, 2020

Here's the thing, if you have experience with coding in other languages, then this is probably a good introduction to c. However, if you are new to programming beware! This is not for you. The instructions for the assignments are often vague which personally led me to a significant amount of unnecessary heartache. Moreover, they don't introduce critical concepts before throwing you at problems that are frankly sometime outside an beginner's scope. If you are new, be prepared for hours of googling in an attempt to figure out the concepts they skimmed over of failed to introduce all together. Also, the final poker testing project costs you hours while you attempt to find invisible bugs with the hints basically begin "well you should try thinking like a programmer"

By Tirtharaj S

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Sep 18, 2020

the worst course course ever I enrolled. the ppe grader is just disgusting. the topic or grader is not bad ,grader complexity makes it bad.

By Vignesh B

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Mar 3, 2023

tough to under stand need more detailing for new beginners That's all

By Alec M

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Nov 5, 2020

My token broke and I haven't been able to get help on it since then...

By HARSH G

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Jun 8, 2020

emacs editor is the worst thing in this course rest is good

By Anindita S

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Jan 2, 2020

i can not satisfy with this course

By Afzal R

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May 19, 2022

Bad and frustrating interface....

By Kaitlin S

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Sep 26, 2020

Not enough Instructions

By Hansani B

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May 9, 2020

I enrolled to this course with very high expectations as to the fact that I can learn the C language, but I was disappointed when I got know that the teacher(s) were in fact teaching things which were basically IQ tests. There were some parts in the teachings that were logically "broken" as well.

The teacher(s) seemed to "show off" by making very simple things extremely complex. Mind you, this course is for beginners, but you can't even pass certain assignments if you don't even have at least a slight bit of knowledge of the C language. If you were planning on learning everything from scratch, I think this course would be useless and you should look elsewhere.

Therefore, I have decided to not participate in this course due to those matters.

By Apostol B

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Jul 27, 2020

I intended to take the whole specialization and I got through the first two courses when I decided that continuing is pointless. My goal was to become more proficient in C programming. Instead there was relatively little code to be written and I spent most of my time on black box testing. If I wanted a course in black box testing, that is what I would looked for. Even though I completed the first two courses, I consider them a waste of time and effort. I do not recommend them.

By Justin M

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Mar 7, 2021

So disappointed in this class/specialization. The tools (programming environment) is buggy, slow, and a pain to use. Instruction is lacking in content and clarity. Had to waste massive amounts of time googling and looking up explanations on discussion boards.

I've taken over 50 Coursera courses, and this is the first specialization I quit because I just couldn't keep putting more effort into taking the course than the instructors put into making it.

By Jose A R A

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Apr 23, 2021

Really bad course. Assignment are poorly explained, you spend more time deducting what is required than getting things done. Practice exercises requires yo to know a lot more than what is explained in the theory classes. Completing practical exercises for debugging and testing is a nightmare and provides no lessons to be applied in real life. A very poor course overall, I would not recommend it to anyone.

By muhammad i

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Dec 24, 2020

good basics but the terminal environment sometimes stuck after I use it for a while, so annoying and wasting time. I need to refresh my browser again and again. can you just offer basic online editor that works like other website? thank u

By Afkar A

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May 12, 2021

instructors are not good. Can't even complete the first assignment 2nd course because there are no clear instructions (written). Some instructors just read and don't explain properly. too fast

By Mir

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Jun 5, 2020

The things you use for the course do not even work half the time which makes you frustrated. For exampe, 1 time in a week the application to do the assignments would work.

By 陳翊翔

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Mar 4, 2023

I followde all steps of the teacher to do the first programming test, but the system doesn't let me pass. The compiler of this system is awful.

By DurgaMallesh M

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May 26, 2020

Unable to complete PPE, I spend hours of my time still unable to complete it.

By Rajib M

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Nov 30, 2022

Worst course ever. The programming environment doesn't work at all

By Jhonee

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Aug 22, 2021

No practice problems or solutions in free version. quite dull

By Mr. P K R G

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May 15, 2020

I have completed the course but certificate not generated.

By Saimplice R C

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Mar 5, 2022

We should change the quiz system it's very bad