Great course! The powerpoint/slides/pdfs are a GREAT resource

Well explained and demoed . Good introduction to spark, the most useful big data framework!

Great Course, thanks

Awesome course !

As always, Coursera delivered another top quality courses on Spark with Scala. I have learned a lot of details, understood the underlying working principles of Spark in the last few days. Thanks to Dr. Miller for such a great course. I hope in the future versions of this course the overall presentations will be more smooth and typo-free.

I learned so much from this course! It was amazing how Dr. Miller used concepts that were meticulously built up in the earlier courses, such as evaluation strategy, functional collections, reactive programming, and associativity, to describe the core of Spark in only four units. As someone coming from more of a statistics background, I started this specialization only to learn Spark, so I wasn't always sure how relevant learning the more theoretical underpinnings of Scala would be. It turns out that it was pretty essential, while also just making me a better programmer. Looking forward to the capstone!

Very interesting course!!

Good material and induction to Spark, good complement of parallel computing in Scala

Very challenging but I learned a lot.

Thanks a lot, Dr. Heather Miller!

Nice course, thanks!

Clear explanations, with emphasis done on the important/practical stuff. From zero to a general understanding on Spark and the available tools in 4 weeks.

Great course to get going with Apache Spark. Would recommend to someone who has java or scala experience already and wants to learn about distributed processing.

Gives a good grounding in the fundamentals of Spark

Muy bueno, Excelente. Todos los conocimientos obtenidos me serán de mucha ayuda en mi camino hacia el mundo de Big Data

Very good learning portal

good but give more practical of small program

Nice session

Great course explained with great detail

Amazing course, i learned a lot even if i'm working with scala and spark

Great course, I really enjoyed learning! Thank you Dr. Miller

Great course over Spark. It shows the syntax, but more than this, it shows the problems, the caveats, the optimization and the architecture from a wide point of view.

The assignment were designed to focus right to the point: they managed all the configuration and initialization code of the project, leaving the student to fill only the most important part, with the resulto of having, at the end of the course, working projects that could be used as "cheat sheet" to remember all the material of the course.

Massimiliano.

Amazing course!

Excellent Cou

really great course, it help me fast get into the new area. thanks a lot!!!

Course is very useful to understand Spark and Scala things.