LG
2017年12月12日
This is a great course in parallel programming. The videos were very clear, summaries reinforced the video material and the programming projects and quizzes were challenging but not overwhelming.
SV
2017年8月27日
Great course. Introduces Parallel Programming in Java in a gentle way.
Kudos to Professor Vivek Sarkar for simplifying complex concepts and presenting them in an elegant manner.
創建者 Леонид С
•2020年10月8日
Excellent course
創建者 Carlos A R
•2019年10月23日
Really didactic!
創建者 chen x
•2017年10月15日
Very impressive!
創建者 Sudharaka P
•2018年11月6日
Great course!!!
創建者 Filipe S V
•2020年8月8日
Learned a lot.
創建者 Guillermo D
•2019年1月2日
Great Course!!
創建者 Вадим Д
•2020年11月9日
Grate course!
創建者 Antonio X
•2017年11月9日
great course.
創建者 Russell G
•2017年8月14日
Great course!
創建者 Naveenkumara J
•2021年4月21日
good content
創建者 Light0617
•2018年11月1日
wonderful!!!
創建者 vaibhav j
•2017年9月21日
Great Course
創建者 Jasur A
•2020年6月6日
It is clear
創建者 Мухин С А
•2018年9月25日
Всё хорошо
創建者 s v s g
•2020年4月30日
very good
創建者 Marcos N F
•2019年5月3日
Excelente
創建者 ASTHA B
•2021年9月29日
Awesome
創建者 Jonathan H
•2018年9月27日
awesome
創建者 Виталий Д
•2020年11月16日
Good!
創建者 Burhan u H Z
•2021年1月21日
Good
創建者 John A
•2020年9月2日
A great course to learn the basics of thread-level parallel programming using the Java API. I had never used ForkJoin or other parallelism libraries which were recently added to the Java API before, and from taking this class I was able to gain both practical experience with these libraries and learn the theory behind their use. The lectures were well organized and effectively transitioned between examples and topics, making the content easy to understand. The quizzes were comprehensive enough to completely test your understanding of the material but still had a reasonable difficulty.
The weakest part of this class was probably the mini-projects. Some of them were too brief or trivial to get sufficient experience with the topics in this course. Solutions are also mainly evaluated based on execution time, which could vary significantly between trials of the same program -- enough that the same code could pass the autograder on some runs and fail on others.
In spite of this, I still would recommend this class to anyone who wants to learn about software parallelism. This course teaches a variety of ways to use parallelism to improve performance, as well as analyzing the challenges and obstacles in doing so. I have not taken the other two courses in this specialization yet, though I plan to soon.
創建者 Mike D
•2017年11月6日
This course has a good combination of clear lectures, helpful textual summaries, reasonable/helpful quizes, and decent weekly projects. If anything, I wish that the projects were a little more challenging. The first three were fairly easy and I wish that we had been required to implement them from scratch rather than having the starting version which required only minor modifications. The last project assignment was a little tricky because the lectures didn't cover all the details of phasers in sufficient detail, so studying additional documentation was required. Overall, I learned a lot and it was time well spent.
創建者 Rhijul M
•2018年12月23日
Although this was a very excellent course to understand various API's and methods that are exposed by Java SDK's (RecursiveTasks, Fork/Join Framework etc) and touched on very important multi-core parallelism aspects, I was left wanting for more fundamental explanations regarding how parallelism works under the hood (How the thread works, how the signalling between barrier synchronisation happens etc). Thanks, none the less. Looking forward to next course.
創建者 Toriola O
•2020年11月13日
I enjoyed the course and hoping to finish the specialization. Conclusively, my understanding of Parallelism has improved further.
It would have been 5-stars but there wasn't enough emphasis on the effect of hardware on the mini projects which in most cases led to avoidable waste of time of the course assignments.
My Advice to all current and prospective students is to be agile by uploading assignment incrementally to Coursera grader.
創建者 Dipen L
•2020年12月28日
Just the grader really, sometimes when iti's under heavy use then the results vary - but apart from that the videos are really special, you have to pay attention to detail when the videos are this compact - but that is what makes it really good. The assignments test what you've learnt and can sometimes be on the easy side - but that just means practicing on other things outside of course work. A truly wonderful learning experience.