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The lectures and the reading material were great. The assignments are challenging and require thought before attempting. The forums were really useful when I got stuck with the assignments
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Overall, it's good. But some chapters like the binary search tree and hash table, the instructions are now very heuristic. I can only understand the content after reading the textbook.
By Deleted A
•Jul 5, 2020
Basics not covered
By MAVURI V S S
•Jan 20, 2021
Good course
By Yu D
•Mar 20, 2020
too hard
By Yash J
•Nov 9, 2022
good
By Sri M S N
•Nov 19, 2020
good
By HASAN N
•Aug 10, 2020
good
By Abdulrahman A
•Apr 4, 2017
none
By Mohit c
•Oct 16, 2020
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By Vivek N
•Aug 18, 2016
Pros:
Effort has been taken in putting up the assignments.
Cons:
Quality of teaching is very poor and too fast to follow through . Instructors have rushed to present course material . I would not recommend this course . Princeton and Stanford offer much higher quality and presentation on the same topics.
By Jared P
•Oct 25, 2016
Some of the assignments seemed overly complicated and irrelevant to the topics discussed. On a few occasions the videos would mention something but never discuss the reasoning. Once I posted to the forum and no one answered so I never asked about the other questions I found during the videos.
By Dhananjay S
•Jul 5, 2020
The course is well designed and well taught too but, it has some limitations that the mentors and the faculties are not well interactive with the students as we as a student had to pass through various hardships to pass the programming assignment. The threads are not answered by mentors.
By AMRITA R
•Oct 24, 2023
very though
By Ali H
•Jan 26, 2024
not good
By Sindhuja B
•Jun 23, 2023
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By Евгений С
•Nov 23, 2020
I started this a couple of days ago and have been doing it hard as part of my specialization. I have only one quiz left and on November 23, a deadline suddenly came, despite the fact that I devoted a lot of time to the course and in fact completed it in two days. I have completely closed all 6 courses for specialization except for one quiz of 6 questions in week 4. Now someone has decided that the next set is only in half a year, seriously? All I need is to go through an automatic check of 6 questions without human control and get my cherished certificate. But it turns out that I wasted money? What is worth extending the course? I cannot wait that long and pay extra money. Could the moderators somehow influence this by informing people who can help?
By Noel
•May 23, 2017
The coursework for this course is not bad. But unfortunately, I was unable to find any help on questions on their discussion forum by the teaching assistants and professors monitoring the course. The course material was based on deriving and proving standard proofs versus trying to explain the underlying concept. I do not believe that this course was worth my money. All the knowledge I obtained in this course could have been obtaining from Data Structures and Algorithms by Micheal Goodrich and Roberto Tamasia. There were occasional references to stackoverflow among the course resources which I feel is not professional (though a good source of information).
By Nick
•May 15, 2017
Wow. I cannot express enough how terrible this specialization is. Only one of the professors speaks english! The lectures give trivial examples while the homework problems are unbelievably difficult. The starter files often times do not set us up to solve the problem in an optimal way. Homework problems cannot be solved when we are only give 1 hour of video lectures!
I will be taking my $$$ to edx.org
By Andrey S
•Feb 25, 2018
For some assignments there is ONE tricky test that fails your solution and you are forced to blindly try to figure out this one tricky input(though your solution works for all of the tests you perform in addition to the one listed in the task). You end up spending lots of time trying to figure out this one test case instead of actually learning.
By Jonathan
•Oct 12, 2016
Tree exercise had absolutely no relevant video material. Videos give zero context for why data structures are important or when they are used....Should take a lesson from the Stanford course.
By Niklas S
•Feb 1, 2020
Extremely difficult for anyone without extensive programming background. Not much guidance available. Would be nice if there was something in between this and the first course in this module
By Supharerk T
•May 23, 2016
Worse than the first course. I expected something that is not academic-like explanation, which I can't find it here.
Please bring back those explanations style similar to the first course.
By Mauricio L C A
•Nov 24, 2022
Doesn't work well with JavaScript as advertised. Some tests simply don't run, and the same code in Java works well. No answers on the forums or from the support team.
By Harsh j
•Jul 30, 2023
not able to access the video only on this course
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By Pavan R
•May 23, 2022
I have completed my cource, but before starting the cource it shows free but now it is asking to money to get certificate
By Viraj D
•May 1, 2019
Lack of coding practice and didn't focus on the elaboration of Core Data structure. Better explanation will work.