Apr 24, 2018
The course is fairly advanced and you would need to review the materials many times to understand the concept. The assignments are definitely fun and not as straightforward as other courses.
Aug 25, 2017
Superb study material. Learnt a lot during this course. I am not much into mathematical stuff, but got a hang of how to break problems and improve efficiency through parallelism.
創建者 Kinshuk V
•Dec 16, 2017
Although the course is taught well and covers a lot of ground, it is my opinion that the course content is not relevant to what I and majority of other Scala developers were looking for in terms of parallel programming. The instructor has been upfront in differentiating parallel programming (the objective of this course) from concurrency programming. However, I was more interested in learning about concurrency, especially about Akka actors, etc. I wish there was a course of Akka, which is what most Scala developers use for concurrent applications.
創建者 Oliinyk V
•Apr 02, 2018
General idea of the course is very good. There are a few things to improve though:
Focus more on intuition behind algorithms rather than formal math
Build a solid foundation that would allow students to develop parallel algorithms themselves.
Practical assignments should focus exactly on this, rather than filling in missing pieces of code that are only tangentially related to the algorithm itself.
It would be helpful if the course provided minimal but solid basics and intuition behind parallel computations. The basics that would allow students to learn more advanced concepts themselves.
In any case, the course has a lot of value and the instructors are awesome.
創建者 Šejla Č
•Mar 08, 2019
Plus: Very in-depth lectures, challenging assignments. Minus: The actual parallel code somewhat remains a black-box, assignments sometimes focus more on figuring out the algorithm logic which may not have anything to do with the course. Still I enjoyed it and learned a great deal.
創建者 Leitner C S E S
•Nov 21, 2017
Some of the practical examples are a bit tedious, because the bigger issues you sometimes need to solve seem to be implementing a random algorithm, instead of implementing its parallelization per se. That is, the support classes for parallelizing the algorithms are pre-coded for you, while you at times spend more time figuring out how the algorithm itself needs to be implemented with that rather than coming up with these parallelization semaphores (which I would have considered more interesting, at least). But the content covered is highly relevant and first class (the authors being world-leading experts on the topic), so if you are interested in parallel programming, this is course is a great choice.
創建者 Marcin Z
•Apr 16, 2019
First 3 weeks were cool, but the last week was somehow rushed and the assignment did not involve any parallel programming.
創建者 Ilya B
•Jan 20, 2019
The tasks are not well designed for online education
創建者 VICTOR A
•Aug 11, 2018
All but the last assignment are interesting. A fair amount of the lectures are also good, even though some of them are too theoretical - the bad lectures are the ones that focus too much into proving mathematical properties, but thankfully there is just a few of those.
The last assignment is considerably larger than the other ones and requires a physics background (or interest to do research on your own). I think they could improve it by approaching the material independently with smaller exercises before applying them again into the larger application that is built as part of the assignment today.
創建者 Sviridenko K
•Mar 26, 2019
Amazing practice assignments! It was very interesting to solve them.
創建者 Denys L
•Dec 10, 2018
Nice and complicated
創建者 manuel B L
•Jul 22, 2018
Excelente curso...
創建者 Marek D
•Aug 02, 2016
Great course. I learned things that I didn't think were possible.
創建者 Somnath B
•Aug 04, 2016
Crisp and to the point. Enjoyed thoroughly
創建者 Vivek G
•Aug 12, 2016
Organised and delivered elegantly.
創建者 Andronik
•Jul 31, 2016
Programming assignments are somewhat challenging, but it's fun :)
創建者 Jon Z
•Jun 28, 2017
Great course, thank you so much!!!
創建者 Denis A Z Q
•Aug 27, 2017
Course with excellent content, methodology and teacher. It was an extraordinary learning experience
創建者 Jaeyeol S
•Sep 13, 2016
Somewhat difficult course, but good to first learn parallel programming.
創建者 Bulat S
•Aug 07, 2016
The material in the course is not complete, but it's perfect as introductory course in parallel programming.
創建者 Ashvin L
•Apr 24, 2018
The course is fairly advanced and you would need to review the materials many times to understand the concept. The assignments are definitely fun and not as straightforward as other courses.
創建者 Artur R
•May 24, 2018
This is one of the most dense and solid courses on Coursera and I really enjoyed tackling it
創建者 murmelssonic
•Aug 15, 2016
Good course. The only thing I would suggest to improve is in the Assignments, the error messages are not always sufficient information to recreate the bug that caused the error, so it is hard to correct the bug (since if you don't recreate the bug, you don't find the root cause). On the other hand it's understandable, that giving away too much info from the grader makes it easier to "workaround" the failed test without necessarily providing a good solution. Tricky trade-off.
Anyway, both the lecturers do a very good job of explaining fairly complex stuff in ways that non-computer-science students can understand.
創建者 Deniss M
•Oct 30, 2016
Спасибо! Thank you!
創建者 IURII B
•Aug 03, 2017
Thanks!
創建者 Aliaksandr P
•Jul 16, 2016
I like the course. I learned some nice ideas for parallel computations, not just Scala specific API.
To polish: sometime lectures and tasks contain many complicated but not significant details. And some important ideas are not emphasized. I had to filter the content carefully.
創建者 Animesh K
•Aug 09, 2017
Cool course