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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Distributed Programming in Java by Rice University

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About the Course

This course teaches learners (industry professionals and students) the fundamental concepts of Distributed Programming in the context of Java 8. Distributed programming enables developers to use multiple nodes in a data center to increase throughput and/or reduce latency of selected applications. By the end of this course, you will learn how to use popular distributed programming frameworks for Java programs, including Hadoop, Spark, Sockets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Multicast Sockets, Kafka, Message Passing Interface (MPI), as well as different approaches to combine distribution with multithreading. Why take this course? • All data center servers are organized as collections of distributed servers, and it is important for you to also learn how to use multiple servers for increased bandwidth and reduced latency. • In addition to learning specific frameworks for distributed programming, this course will teach you how to integrate multicore and distributed parallelism in a unified approach. • Each of the four modules in the course includes an assigned mini-project that will provide you with the necessary hands-on experience to use the concepts learned in the course on your own, after the course ends. • During the course, you will have online access to the instructor and the mentors to get individualized answers to your questions posted on forums. The desired learning outcomes of this course are as follows: • Distributed map-reduce programming in Java using the Hadoop and Spark frameworks • Client-server programming using Java's Socket and Remote Method Invocation (RMI) interfaces • Message-passing programming in Java using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) • Approaches to combine distribution with multithreading, including processes and threads, distributed actors, and reactive programming Mastery of these concepts will enable you to immediately apply them in the context of distributed Java programs, and will also provide the foundation for mastering other distributed programming frameworks that you may encounter in the future (e.g., in Scala or C++)....

Top reviews

NK

Sep 4, 2017

It forced me to recall OpenMP and MPI. Thought it's already dead in favor to IMDG, spark, upc and so on.Practical tasks - miniprojects - was too easy to implement. Need more complex tasks.

SA

Apr 27, 2020

A very good course, I learnt a lot from it, thank you Coursera.

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By Luiz F d S G

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Nov 19, 2021

The content itself is good, but the grading system is awful. They require you to optmize an algorithm, but do not provide enough resources on the grader, therefore you have to keep repeting the same submission for hours until finally you have the resources available on the server. The quizes also have some nonsense questions.

By Yatin G

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Sep 10, 2017

There are issues in the assignments created, and those are just due to negligence. The content is also not so challenging and teaching is average. Wont recommend the course at all

By Lakshya S

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Oct 1, 2023

Nothing works! Every single project gives bunch of errors which takes forever to resolve for a newbie that I can't focus on the main stuff. Useless course.

By Keesun B

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Mar 9, 2018

Very poor rating system for mini project 4. Why don't you fix the problem?