Learner Reviews & Feedback for Software Defined Networking by The University of Chicago
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CC
Sep 8, 2020
give a comprehensive overview of SDN networking and provide details about tools and technologies from the state of art.
MA
Apr 13, 2021
Thank you all, those who take part in preparing and delivering this course. The course is very helpful to understand SDN and its benefits and limitation.
1 - 25 of 78 Reviews for Software Defined Networking
By Kishore K T
•Oct 9, 2019
Standardized syllabus and this course is highly recommended for Networking Professionals. Requesting to add more ETSI NFV content. Thank you,
By Marco G
•Apr 1, 2021
The course has to be updated, there are too many setup problems. The software used (mininet) has been updated and does not appear to be consistent with what is being taught; also, the virtual machine provided has configuration issues.
By Ibrahim Z A
•Jun 20, 2020
Overall, the course has an interesting syllabus with an overview, motivation & history behind the concept, challenges, opportunities, and practice exercises, as well as providing great expert interviews. The material is slightly outdated, but it's understandable because it was released a few years ago. Nevertheless, thank you for providing this course, I got a lot of lessons, history, and insight from this course. I suggest to update this course and due to the extensive content I also suggest dividing it into two courses: basic and advanced or 101 and 102
By Xin Z K
•Jun 1, 2020
Overall, the content is good. However, contents and assignments need to be updated.
By Shunmuga P S
•Jan 2, 2020
I really appreciate the external interviews, veracity and technical details of the course. It would have been better, if correct links for the tools have been provided in the course.
By Subramanian P
•Jul 26, 2020
This is a fantastic course. Covers a wide range of topics about SDN starting from history to latest research topics. The guest interviews are extremely informative and interesting
By Sarah H
•Sep 3, 2021
Its a good course and not trying to be too spoonfed here, but I think some sort of help should be given for the assignments. 1. Assignments should be listed in the course itself instead of us trying to find it from the virtual drive, even then its not reader friendly. Why not just put a .pdf file? It seems trivial but it makes it easier to learn the material, it is afterall and online class with no support. 2. Why not put a step by step guide with a few questions for students to find out the answer in the assignment? Yes its spoonfeeding but because its online and its a relatively new topic, it can be helpful to have better resources, even if its assignment help. Yes, i know there are some geniuses can figure out on their own.
Ultimately, Professor Nick needs to ask himself, if he provides this course for students to learn something, then the programming assignments should be heavily assisted through giving out the answers, because answers and spoonfeeding help people learn too, honestly, especially for not so intelligent students.
But anyway, I do like the depth, the interviews and the materials presented in this course, which to me, in 2021 is still kind of scarce. Thank you Prof Nick for your hard work preparing this course! I really appreciate it!
By Thisenthira N
•Jul 23, 2020
I had some troubles to configure the software. But after that, it was awesome. And some instructions of the quizzes are not available, the links are disabled. But overall performances are good. Thank you coursera to offered this course.
By Adugna G
•Aug 31, 2020
It is a very interesting course I ever liked. Thanks, Professor. Nick Feamster. I will continue for my further career and research works on software-defined networking. Fortunately, with the start of this course I have been reviewing articles on deployment opportunities and challenges of SDN. I grasped valuable know-how of the technology and my interests felt on SDN for my thesis work as of October.
By Stefano T
•Sep 22, 2025
Professor Nick Feamster's course covers all the core topics of SDN and provides an appropriate balance between theoretical and practical approaches to the subject, with extensive use of supporting tools such as Mininet. It is certainly a course to recommend for those looking to systematize their knowledge of SDN.
By Pedro H
•Dec 2, 2022
A long way to go, many development opportunities to improve the flexibility of network control.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it was a motivating course in developing SDN for the future
By Dawuni G
•Oct 20, 2020
This is a very good course for any one who want to understand SDN. This course played a vital role in helping me to get an A in my project work leading to the award of MSc.Computer Science.
By ABHISHEK K G
•May 9, 2020
For a beginner this course is highly recommended. Although many important topics are not discussed in detail. Happy to take this course.
By CHEN C
•Sep 9, 2020
give a comprehensive overview of SDN networking and provide details about tools and technologies from the state of art.
By NEENA S S
•Feb 10, 2021
One of the best courses offered by Coursera. Thank you for providing knowledge for free. I am grateful to you guys.
By Murugavalli E
•Aug 22, 2020
SDN is a higher level course in networking. This course helps understand the core concepts of network functions.
By Arun
•Aug 29, 2020
Good and informative for basics of SDN. Wish to work on more programming exercises especially on data plan,
By Muhammed R
•Apr 8, 2020
I actually enjoyed learning this course and it will definitely help me in my future en devours
By Kothali
•Dec 22, 2021
Great details, depth on SDN and covers all topics with precise information.
By MEET C
•Nov 23, 2020
This course was ery helpful to understand the Software Devlopment
By Shailaja S
•Sep 7, 2020
Very useful and well defined ,structured course
By kunal n
•May 22, 2021
beautiful course, gave depth knowledge of sdn
By Jorge Y M M
•Nov 30, 2020
Muy buen curso con excelencia en informacion
By Gorka L
•Apr 23, 2021
It has been a really interesting experience