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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Blockchain Basics by University at Buffalo

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About the Course

This first course of the Blockchain specialization provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developing applications and programming. You will be equipped with the knowledge needed to create nodes on your personal Ethereum blockchain, create accounts, unlock accounts, mine, transact, transfer Ethers, and check balances. You will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, an immutable distributed ledger and the trust model that defines a blockchain. This course enables you to explain basic components of a blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain) its operations (verification, validation, and consensus model) underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Content includes the hashing and cryptography foundations indispensable to blockchain programming, which is the focus of two subsequent specialization courses, Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (Dapps). You will work on a virtual machine image, specifically created for this course, to build an Ethereum test chain and operate on the chain. This hands-on activity will help you understand the workings of a blockchain, its transactions, blocks and mining. Main concepts are delivered through videos, demos and hands-on exercises....

Top reviews

RH

May 4, 2019

The course is well designed to give you an overview of Blockchain and the basic concepts. What is Smart Contract and other various terminologies and how they play a role in the blockchain. Thanks

MK

Mar 15, 2019

Very nicely arranged course and very informative. Learned a lot in no time. Only hurdle is The Ethereum Virtual machine takes hell lot of time in the Miner step. rest all fine. thanks a lot.

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By Syed M B

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Apr 28, 2020

Kindly provide a Notebook facility to submit a programming assignment.

By Balaji S

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Mar 7, 2019

The programming assignment is not really testing the knowledge gained

By Yoonus K V

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Mar 24, 2019

How to fund the accounts would have been nice int he project section

By Veronica K

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Sep 24, 2022

It was agressive on terms for a beginner course, but still doable.

By BIDIT K

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Feb 26, 2021

Some more hands on exercise would have been more exciting- to code.

By edwin m

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Mar 26, 2020

Course was interesting and informative. Great course for beginners.

By Germinio J

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Apr 13, 2021

Good course, but final assignment is hard to setup the environment

By Juan F P

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May 14, 2020

it is a good course, with all blockchain basics, perfect to start.

By Nathan W

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Dec 28, 2018

Overall a good course to learn the basics of how blockchain works.

By Shubham p

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Aug 20, 2020

This is a great course for an understanding of Blockchain basics.

By Geetha G

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Nov 30, 2020

A great course to start with understanding basics of blockchain.

By Andrew V

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Jul 31, 2024

Very beginner, which is fine as long as next courses teach more

By Deepak L

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Aug 19, 2021

Ya fantastic course ! Bima Ma'am taught a meaning full content.

By Cheng Z

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Jun 22, 2018

It's easy to understand and the exercises are easy to complete.

By SHANKHADEEP B

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Dec 9, 2021

Recommended for students, who wants to learn the fundamentals.

By Apithep P

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Mar 27, 2021

There are some part that explain roughly and unclearly enough.

By UTKARSH T

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Aug 20, 2019

its quiet an interactive course especially the last assignment

By HARDIK K

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May 8, 2020

A good course to get started with fundamentals of blockchain.

By IPSIT S M

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May 15, 2022

Very good course for understanding the basics in blockchain.

By Ramin S

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Dec 28, 2021

the course was a greart statring point in blockchain for me

By Matthew C

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Sep 3, 2021

A little harder than I thought it would be but still great!

By Amit R

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Oct 9, 2020

knowledge on cryptography and basics of blockchain was good

By Sujoy D P

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Jul 12, 2020

It was a great course.But assignment part was a bit tricky.

By Muhammad S

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Feb 15, 2023

Thanks to Coursera and HEC for giving me this opportunity.

By Antonio M C

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Oct 11, 2022

Very insteresting overview of blockchain and crypto world