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About the Course

The third course in the specialization Introduction to Programming in C introduces the programming constructs pointers, arrays, and recursion. Pointers provide control and flexibility when programming in C by giving you a way to refer to the location of other data. Arrays provide a way to bundle data by guaranteeing sequences of data are grouped together. Finally, recursive functions—functions that call themselves—provide an alternative to iteration that are very useful for implementing certain algorithms....

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ZT

Jun 9, 2020

This course is certainly very challenging and I am glad I made it. To those who are still struggling with the poker game project, I encourage you to keep working hard and you will achieve a lot.

HP

Aug 18, 2020

Best part of the course the assignments and the poker project. I loved the reading part too. Best skill I got from this course is deep knowledge of debugging.

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By Himanshu k

Aug 29, 2020

well

By Laura G

Feb 26, 2022

Would definetively recomend taking an introductory course to C programming, this course requires prior knowled not stated before signing up... it has great content but if you are not familiar with any programming language yet better wait before taking this course.

Also, would be better if there were more worked through examples.

By Martin H

Mar 19, 2019

A very good course if you just look at the programming part. But most of the time you try to find testcases what the programmer could have done wrong ( without knowing the course). That's pure luck and does not help to improve my C skills....

By Picman

Oct 4, 2023

Sincerely speaking, the project is not that good for me, it's not really hard but since I don't play card, remember those rules really kills me... Hope you can change to a more general project that everyone could enjoy.

By Levin M J S

Aug 21, 2019

Not making enough effort to help students make sense of the convoluted implementations that they had used.

By Sayan C

Apr 7, 2020

Very tough

By Aydin S

Oct 30, 2020

Really frustrating experience. The course content was challenging and interesting, but I am so tired of trying to access the online programming environment just to see that it's down. Very demotivating to see I can't work on the course when I want to.

By Megha F

May 15, 2020

No support for taking up the programming assignments. The PPE for programming assignment is down most of the time.

By Aicha M

Jan 18, 2021

in the discussion form they respond really late !!

By Manan J

Sep 2, 2020

PPE troubled a lot

By Justin M

Mar 7, 2021

So disappointed in this class/specialization. The tools (programming environment) is buggy, slow, and a pain to use. Instruction is lacking in content and clarity. Had to waste massive amounts of time googling and looking up explanations on discussion boards.

I've taken over 50 Coursera courses, and this is the first specialization I quit because I just couldn't keep putting more effort into taking the course than the instructors put into making it.

By Timmy D

Oct 3, 2021

It's really good until you have to deal with invisible test cases for weeks and weeks..

By Bùi Q P

Mar 12, 2019

Very bad tool use for uploading assignment

By Donglai R

Feb 8, 2019

Very bad assignment instructions

By Adam

Sep 18, 2023

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