It's really a bad course, and they really forcing you to let copilot do the programming without making you write some code and only "prompt". and the guided assignments are stupid. this should be called "Introduction to prompting C# to Copilot". I was enrolled to the whole Back-end Professional Certificate, and now I'm leaving the program.

The first three modules are great and have content that is very informative. The asynchronous programming and copilot modules have good information, but the videos get very repetitive after getting through a few. It's not that I think the content isn't important, but it feels like the same information being repeated and stretched so that they can fill their own modules even though there is not much in them. There are also quite a few editing errors in multiple videos which is quite unprofessional for Microsoft... The guided labs can be frustrating because (unlike a proper code editor) they only accept the exact prompt in the hint as the correct answer. Since you are unable to copy-paste the hint you will have to retype the entire prompt exactly as it is written. It is (usually) fine, but when it expects longer answers it can be frustrating trying to get it exactly right when a normal code editor would have more flexibility.

The videos explain the surface level knowledge fairly well, but the course does not go into much depth, which I suppose is to be expected of a beginner level course. The problem is that it really doesn't provide much in the way of hands on assignments. The only tasks worth the time are the "You Try It" practice assignments, but the guided labs are absolutely useless, not to mention how hilariously easy and pointless the quizzes are. Another issue is that they really push you to use Copilot to code, which is terrible advice for someone starting the programming journey. It is vital to get into the habit of getting the "small" repetitive tasks into your muscle memory to build your intuition. Using copilot to the extent that this course advises will never make you a good programmer. In essence: the course videos are fine and explain things clearly, but a fair amount of time is taken up by things that will not benefit your learning.

This course really is not about programming with C#. I learned very little about C# since the course was almost entirely about asynchronous programming (which is not C# specific) and a sales pitch for Copilot (which still does not seem all that useful). I had hoped the course would get into more details about development of object oriented programs, but that was largely skimmed over with nothing more than "Here is the syntax."

While there was a good start, the quality quickly dropped. Incorrect presentations, overly repeated topics, incoherent subjects, bad exercises... I expected better.

Zor

the guided labs are so annoying you should always write the defined solution word by word or your solution would be considered wrong. 90% of the practice assignments are just a 1-1 copy of the guided lab code . using copilot at the end is a nice touch but the questions in labs/assignments often lack clarity

The quizzes are repetitive and have not much practical sence. It's hard to catch in and understand most of the stuff provided, it seems like there was not much effort to make the course understandable

good

nice

It is generally a good course. It looks though it has not been perfectly adapted to Coursera platform. E.g. in Guided Lab when asked to try Copilot prompts it is almost impossible to enter expected text simply because the same task can be described in many ways logically correctly, so I had to check Hint button to see which exact prompt is expected. This works well when you need to input a piece of code e.g. an operator then there are no other options than the correct value. Also in the final assignment the task was to input pieces of the program we developed instead of the whole program. As far as I can see after peer review people understood it in a different way: someone input only a few lines with the requested functionalities, others input big pieces of code hard to read and without ability to run it and test it. It would make more sense to send the whole program and run it an embedded compiler in Coursera (since it is forbidded to copy someone else's code localy to test it).

More an introduction into coding with github co-pilot than actual programming in c#.

super excelente, la verdad es un curso para verlo y luego profundizar en conceptos como la programación orientada a objetos y la asincrónica. el instructor es muy claro. lo único que me quejo es en lo ejercicios a veces son un poco avanzados o necesitan que busques algo para completarlos, creo que eso hace parte de esto aprender cosas por ti mismo.

Excellent course, very complete, excellent examples, videos, texts and tests. Highly recommended.

The concepts of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Module 3 are clear and easy to understand.

very good course this course can give me more knowledge about programming

Very good course ..really every thing was made easy

muy buen curso para aprender las bases de c#

Explican muy bien y el curso es entretenido

Basic and short, great experience!