Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Software Engineering by IBM
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RP
Sep 10, 2024
This course surprised me in its applicability to software development. It is a great first course in establishing a foundation of programming before actually doing any programming itself.
DP
Apr 23, 2023
Great course for anyone wanting to get into Software Engineering, or a great refresher for those who have SE experience but need to fill in any gaps they may have. Highly recommended!
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By Alexandre J
•Oct 2, 2025
The content in the video modules were decent and the overall organization of the materials were fair. However, the quiz questions were extremely poorly worded - many questions did not have obvious definitive answers due to how poorly worded and vague they were structured. Additionally, the AI job search module was poor and frustrating. The AI module would rate down an answer, saying I should have said another specific answer instead. However, when I included that same specific answer on the next attempt, the module still rated that answer down.
By Josh P
•May 25, 2025
A lot of poorly phrased questions. Much of the information is way too general. For example how programming syntax is explained from such a broad perspective, it is more difficult to understand then actually understanding programming. This intro course is good, if you're actually already familiar with programming as a means to buffer out your foundation, but if I was't already familiar I don't think much of this would have been useful (and it definitely wouldn't stick).
By Osama E
•Jan 15, 2026
Robotic voice and boring, theoretical and text heavy presentations. It does give a general overview of software engineering, so the content is not entirely useless, but the course feels outdated and the AI voice is annoying. A lot of theoretical content is being "stated" without relating it to applications or explaining how it actually works in real life, so I doubt anyone will remember these details. Definitely needs an update and human instructors
By R. B
•Mar 10, 2025
That is very confusing without real world examples. Often in architecture it was just a useless slideshow of words for complex things.
By Jesus J
•Feb 18, 2025
Knowledge and information imparted in this course is great, but AI-made voice content is the worst way to learn.
By Frencis P
•May 26, 2025
Boring course, only for beginners. Not for people that work in industry, and knows these knowledge
By Katie W
•Jan 9, 2025
mostly informational about what it is to be a software engine with minimal hard skills
By Drue G
•Mar 7, 2025
This course is way too long for an intro to the following courses. Felt like filler.
By Deleted A
•Jul 6, 2025
Boring course full of technical terms. Avoid at all cost.
By Nicholas D
•Mar 23, 2025
very dry. Drags on forever.
By Muhammad A I
•Sep 3, 2025
The ai voice is annoying.
By Illia O
•Feb 19, 2026
Немає ніякої практики
By Mohamad k
•Feb 16, 2025
Most of the vidoes where just reading slides , no explanation or elaboration being done , the entire course could be done in a day if it was only reading since these videos time in comparison to the knowledge provided is absurd !
By Thinh N
•Mar 15, 2026
I cannot remove this course even I have contacted customer service many times. Your customer service quality is really bad due to the overuse of stupid chat bot.
By Gonzalo M
•Dec 11, 2025
realice este curso y no me guardo nada de lo que hice, verigfique varias veces que este bien antes de enviarlo y no lo tomo correctamente.
By Ubaid U R
•Dec 30, 2024
no real instructor. Better off with youtube. There is an automated voice and slides. Dont get caught up because it says IBM
By Hugo M
•Nov 30, 2025
La enseñanza es muy superficial. Y el hecho de que sea una maquina quien explique lo hace super aburrido para mi gusto.
By Shannon F
•Aug 22, 2024
Waste of time, especially the final project. If you are already a SDE skip this certificate and just go to Udacity.
By Luis R
•Jan 22, 2026
Content is longer than needed. Many questions and answer choices have grammatical errors or are poorly worded.
By Vald “ T P
•Sep 14, 2025
This will not teach you anything useful, this is all about pointless nepo jobs you will not get anyways.
By Effe K
•Jul 20, 2023
Crap, you guys took money from my account without my consent and i couldn't get a refund. Nonsense!
By Rajdeep D
•Aug 10, 2024
completed honors content, then also did not receive honors recognition in my certificate.
By Loïc T
•Oct 23, 2024
For the certificate I applied for, I abviously already know that. A total waste of time.
By PUNIT L 2
•May 8, 2025
Your System Is Slow My ID Is Right But Your System is wrogn
By saleh a
•Jul 24, 2024
One of the worst courses I have ever seen