Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Unix Workbench by Johns Hopkins University
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SG
Dec 17, 2017
Fantastic book for beginners as well as people who haven't worked on Unix for a long time. Brush up and get going. Very lucid presentation ; gitHub lessons were an additional plus
HQ
Dec 14, 2018
Excellent introduction to the command line and github. Great as it goes past superificial introductions and teaches programming and manipulation of the command line.
401 - 406 of 406 Reviews for The Unix Workbench
By Christopher G
•Nov 9, 2020
Instructions for setting up the Unix environment on my Windows laptop were limited and didn't convey the challenges in setting it up. Commands don't always work as advertised, e.g., "make". I'm guessing that's a result of running Ubuntu in Windows 10 but I can't tell. I identified a potential solution but "sudo" won't accept my password so I wasn't able to attempt it. It's just been one annoyance after another. I imagine there are solutions for problems I've encountered but when basic operations don't work right it kills my enthusiasm for continuing with the course. I'm done with it.
By Stefan M
•Jun 28, 2020
Very basic. The git topic felt like not belonging to the course. The video were purely recorded.
By Milad V
•Mar 2, 2019
in my opinion some concepts is not described very well...
By aakriti k
•Dec 17, 2020
For the contents I will give 5.It was more of reading and less of talking. It would have been better if it was explained with example video to make the understanding more clear.Sadly, the policy in this course of reviewing by other members is somewhat stagnant and not pleasant and this is a thing which I hate about this course, you complete from your end but it will show In progress that means there is no difference between people who passed the tests and people who don't.
By Jason J
•Dec 15, 2020
When you get to week 2 and there are questions about 2 text files that you are just magically supposed to have, even though no links have ever been provided, and you search the forums and see students asking where they are in 2017, and still there are no links in 2020, you realize this is an abandoned course and is not worth your time or mine.
By Essam A G
•Dec 15, 2023
Being a text only course is very boring