Of all the courses I took, I didn't like this one specifically. For one specific reason. It requires an Azure account. However, then I tried to create one, I was refused, because of my Revolut card. It is a so called IBAN discrimination policy by Microsoft. When I started asking questions "Why", it turns out this is done specifically by Microsoft so some guy could not waste their resources on 300 thousand dollars using prepaid card on 200 dollars. But if that's the case, the course should have used some other thing to suggest to learners, or warn them very explicitly on the dangers. After all - this is a learning course, students can make mistakes. If they make a mistake that will cause them to lose a lot of money - that's something problematic. This is the first course I see where you have not only have a subscription on Coursera itself, but also provide your credit card credentials to some third party like Microsoft.

Can't really do the labs without a paid Azure account. The 200$ Credit never materialized. Also, GitHub Actions Workflow and python coding was a distraction for many things that could be done simply through the Azure services in place. So many errors in deployment already so need to reduce the steps and ensure everything is in place. Because the mystery of where 'demo-index' was configured was never solved, I didn't know if my configs were wrong or I missed something as the errors are so unintelligible.

To be avoided - unstructured and uninformative

Out of date for many things ; i.e. doesn't match with current Azure screens

The libraries used are outdated and the code doesn't work on new libraries and the old ones aren't compatible with the new design of websites and how things work.

Great learning resources that will be useful long after completing the course, concise presentations, and clear explanations of all topics

good course

excelente

vgv

The course content is good, but found some other issues. The Graded Assignment that is there in Module 3 contains some questions from the content of Module 4 (for example, Container Registry) which is confusing because they haven't taught us this yet. Also, I found that there was some overlapping content from the 1st course in this specialization (Introduction to Generative AI) about the difference between Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning etc. I honestly didn't expect that the University would copy the videos as it is from one course to another. If it was meant just for revision, there could have been a quick overview rather than going through the same videos again. But overall it was good, Alredo taught us really well. It was easy to follow and the Labs and Excercises were challenging and helped me understand the concepts really well.

what a good lecture.

The course meandered in a few areas, but was still informative

It is a good course if you have some strong problem solving skills. because some very important points are just briefly covered and discussed. The code is not directly applicable, and you need to develop the updated codes yours. You won't get much support from the course provider and the forum which seems lacking a moderator.

Unfortunately some of the material was outdated and it was very difficult to complete the practical tasks. Too much knowledge was assumed about credentials, environment variables, Github. I would have liked more step-by-step instructions

the course didn't age well, if the teaching is via ui, then at least they should updated to the latest microsoft version.

Very limited examples, and poor explanation.