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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Cloud Computing Concepts, Part 1 by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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About the Course

Cloud computing systems today, whether open-source or used inside companies, are built using a common set of core techniques, algorithms, and design philosophies – all centered around distributed systems. Learn about such fundamental distributed computing "concepts" for cloud computing. Some of these concepts include: clouds, MapReduce, key-value/NoSQL stores, classical distributed algorithms, widely-used distributed algorithms, scalability, trending areas, and much, much more! Know how these systems work from the inside out. Get your hands dirty using these concepts with provided homework exercises. In the programming assignments, implement some of these concepts in template code (programs) provided in the C++ programming language. Prior experience with C++ is required. The course also features interviews with leading researchers and managers, from both industry and academia....

Top reviews

MR

Jul 15, 2017

Great course, I would recommend to everyone who wants to understand the basics of cloud computing. The course material is excellent, the instructor Indy is phenomenal and the exams are marvelous.

DP

Oct 6, 2016

This instructor is fantastic. He is exceptionally thorough and his delivery is very good as well. This is a course definitely worth taking if you are interested in learning more about the cloud.

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By rajat b

Feb 28, 2017

GREAT course ,the concepts and theories have been explained thoroughly. But I also believe providing a few reference materials would have been better for a theory oriented course like this one.overall still the best could theory course online

By Sparsh T

Mar 14, 2020

The course was without doubt amazing.

The videos was pretty good and the Quiz at the end of each week helped a lot to recollect stuff.

The programming assignment was a little hard though and it wasn't clear as to what we were supposed to do.

By Sudheer K K

Aug 14, 2017

Great Course, helped me to learn basic understanding of Cloud computing. I feel lot energized now, to talk to colleagues in discussion about Computing. Appreciate info in discussion groups helping solve or direction unsolved questions.

By Ben M

Aug 28, 2021

Good content overall .. I wish there were more references to the content (links to articles and readings). The assignment skeleton code needs to be looked into (it is really bad.. super hard to understand what is going on)

By Mohammad Z A

Mar 15, 2022

A very good course covering various topics in a duration of 5 weeks. Some of the topics needs a little more explaination. The homeworks make sure that one understands the topics covered during the week.

By Lev D G

Oct 7, 2020

Solid distributed systems' fundamentals class. The programming assignment was really evaluating my reverse and software engineering skills rather than my grasp of distributed systems' fundamentals

By Kristofer P

Dec 6, 2016

Great lectures. However, the starter code for the programming assignment is quite atrocious. Overall, would highly recommend to anyone wanting to learn high level concepts in distributed systems.

By Ganesh S

May 17, 2019

This course though looks quite simple but is very exhaustive and needs lot of dedicated effort to complete this course. Overall a very good learning experience related to cloud computing.

By Ravi A

Oct 2, 2020

Course is nice, but one will get tired trying to keep up with so many protocols, algos.

Prior experience on any one distributed compute framework or Cassandra would be extremely helpful.

By DiegoBlanco

Nov 20, 2016

The programming assignement was very long in relation with the resto of assignements (quiz). However, the course's content is very interesting and complete.

By Loïc F

Dec 11, 2019

Great course overall as it gives a deep understanding of the cloud technologies. Some homework are too tedious to finish and not really interesting.

By David M

Dec 2, 2021

Excellent primer on distributed systems theory and practice, but the programming assignment was complicated by low quality template code.

By ganesh h

Dec 26, 2016

The contents cover a vast set of topics. just what i was expecting. I was hoping some good books, papers would be suggested

By Zhikun L

Jul 15, 2017

Really hardcore computer science course. Sometimes, reading original papers is necessary to really understand the topic.

By Tyler F

Oct 2, 2016

Great, and highly relevant/topical, content. However I found the quiz assignments to be needlessly tedious at times.

By Tien N

May 8, 2017

Many homework questions are confusing while there is no assistants/moderators to clarify in discussion forums.

By Fabrizio T

Apr 30, 2018

Great fundament courses. I refreshed many concepts, I forgot due to different skills I covered in my career

By Ruiwen W

Jul 30, 2020

should make the exam easier, and this course only teaches concepts and it asked you to do a C++ assignment

By Kartiki B

Jul 9, 2017

Please discuss in brief the steps for solving programming assignment. The rest of the course is fantastic.

By Matthew E

Jan 1, 2017

Very good intro to a number of distributed computing topics. Challenging assignment and engaging material.

By masaaki f

Feb 26, 2017

Great course! I learnt basics of current cloud computing technologies, even this is really tough course.

By Edgar V

Mar 29, 2021

I liked the course, but the level of the exams is much higher than the material that was shared.

By Guangwei C

Jun 9, 2020

Programming assignment is the great experience and effective exercise for the course topic.

By Shengwu Y

Apr 28, 2018

Materials are long and the cause content is very rich. Chandy Lamport is nightmare...

By Thibaut C

May 28, 2017

Really good, however having to write the assignment in c++ is a downer.