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This course is very well taught. As a beginner with MCU's, I learned many things. The assessments are interesting and challenging. Great course!
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The course was excellent for me, as a beginner. Of course, the learning curve was steep and the assignments challenging, but I learnt a lot. Thanks you Coursera and University of Colorado, Boulder.
By Nerella S S A 1
•Jun 5, 2020
good
By Fabrice L
•Feb 2, 2023
the course is good but the instructions are very limited. it is a huge personal investment to go through all the courses. the instructor doesn't give enough support to solve the assignment => module 3 quiz is crazy difficult for somebody who has no experience. I like to work hard but I feel frustrated, and I did not finish the last assignment : it is not clear what is the target and it seems a bit difficult without guidance... In addition, the whole things is not helping for the next course because the TI dev kit is not supported => so disappointed !!!!
By Beshoy A W
•Apr 26, 2020
Good and easy contant and well explain
But i become so disappointed with the assessment it's so hard and not match the content
I agree it's about the learning contant but it's not easy like it
There weren't many examples to understand the assessment and do it easily
I made many Searches on Google to understand and to be able to do the assessment
I suggest and hope that you prepare some new videos to practice more and to be able to solve my assessment problems
By Rosa C
•Mar 17, 2021
I learned a lot! I think the assignments need to be explained in a better way, sometimes they get really confusing and the instructions are not in order sometimes. As college student still, it gets pretty confusing on the assignments, I was lucky to enroll in the course with 3 other peers and we helped each other when we got stuck. Besides this, I did learned many things.
By Xavier C C
•Jul 5, 2023
The content of the course is interesting, but incomplete.
The assesments go beyond what is presented in the lectures, so some extra research is needed to pass the course. Peer reviewed assesments have rather unclear guidlines and are not trivial to assess, which results in sometimes random feedback. It seems that the course has not been updated since 2017.
By Danillo M S
•Sep 27, 2021
The course material is good, the videos are clear and the assignments really complete the learning. However, as a embedded systems introductory course I would expect more hands-on activities, flashing microcontrollers and debugging the code in the target would be the bare minimum to cover on this phase.
By varun m
•Sep 17, 2019
The course is good and well structured, but do not expect any support from the instructor or moderators during the course. There is no way for you to review a decision during peer reviews. I had to upload the same submissions again due to incompetent peers marking my answers as wrong.
By Dwayne I
•Aug 30, 2017
An interesting course but the assignment goals aren't always the clearest. While i understand the importance of code reviews, I don't believe that they are the best way to grade assignments due to the varying skill levels of persons taking the course.
By Roberto N S
•Aug 30, 2023
There are a lot of topics here but unfortunately they are all explained quickly, not recommended for anyone just beginning the journey, the best way to benefit from this course is to watch every video then you search to learn in depth its contents!
By Snehil S P
•Jun 13, 2023
This Course is not at all for beginners! if you want to take up this course you must have basic prior knowledge of MPMC and C programming. And it is best course if you are Intermediate.
By Matias S
•Apr 13, 2018
The content is well crafted, there are some rough issues around the homework and the support in the forums is null.
By Xinyun Z
•Jan 13, 2021
The topic is good but lack of maintenance in these days. Also, no access to the downloadable slides.
By Shady H M
•Mar 19, 2020
It's a good basic Intro but does not go into details as I would expect.
By Souryashree S
•Apr 22, 2024
doesnt explain everything
By Ganesh S
•Jun 5, 2020
Good
By James M
•Dec 12, 2019
While this course has some very good information, the way it's presented is really poor.
After the information tsunami of every video, at the end of each week there is an assignment which does a bad job of bridging the gap between what was taught and how it should be applied. It feels vague, and I spent hours merely deciphering the requirements of the project. The last assignment was a huge letdown - almost no 'true' embedded programming at all, simply pointer tricks, fumbling with makefiles, gcc flags, and print statements. It was a repackaging of all the other assignments into one ambiguous conglomerate.
By Timothy P
•Jun 25, 2024
This can be a complicated subject and the final assignment was very tough. The grading process is based on peer-review of your assignment, and you have to grade your peers assignments as well. This is essentially having the blind lead the blind. Every assignment I reviewed for the final assessment was wrong and not functioning 100%, and these same peers were grading my assignment. So from what I can tell, none of us fully understood the final project, yet we were also grading each others work. Not a fan of this approach.
By Tamas C
•May 30, 2019
Listening to the lectures and reading the material is not enough to get more than 20-40% of the max score in some of the tests. The reviewers can give lower scores even if the assignment has been done correctly, just because why not, Coursera couldn't care less. References/paths are often out-of-date. Neither the Android app, nor the web interface displays the correct answers.
By Milkias B
•Sep 24, 2023
the course leaves a lot to be desired. the content which is in the course classes is not remotely sufficient to complete the projects and you have to practically teach yourself in order to complete the projects. the lectures are good but it would have been nice if they could show the instructor code along.
By wathek g
•May 29, 2021
too much into software , very few practical embedded system knowledge
By Karalan
•May 30, 2017
All are basics only. . . and its not a hands on training
By Vansh V S
•Dec 13, 2022
VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPTS .
By Kieffer Q
•Dec 5, 2020
The lecture videos are pretty decent, but the quizes, tests, and assignments are brutal with confusing instructions, little to no examples or relevant resources for help. The entire course is littered with typos, spelling errors, etc. that need to be reviewed. The Final Assignment did not provide a solution to refer to after submitting it. I know I didn't do it correctly, but somehow I passed that last assignment and the entire course. This course is such a joke. I can see now why employers don't take Coursera certificates seriously. Seems like a money grab without any effort to actually help the students learn the material effectively. Such a waste of my time and money. Lost faith in Coursera and am now exploring alternative options like Udemy, which seem to be higher quality for cheaper.
By Anthony S J
•Aug 6, 2024
This course is not an introduction to embedded systems software and development environments. This course does not teach you anything about programming embedded systems or embedded system development environments. It is barely a review of computer architecture and some very basic C programming concepts. The 2 programming assignments are for C on a full desktop/laptop computer and do not relate to embedded C programming. The course even has you download and setup a virtual Linux environment to complete the programming assignments when none of that will be used in embedded development. They recommend getting the TI MSP432 Launchpad dev board but is never used in this course and not in the follow on course.
By Ray S
•Dec 4, 2021
The course material is shoddy, the assignments ambiguous and some of the provided test code in the final assignment contain errors. 4 days after reporting the errors/asking for clarification (nothing in the assignment said to expect or fix errors) I had not received any response from the instructor or a moderator.
My employer paid for a plus subscription for several work related classes, I took this as a curiosity since it was effectively 'free to me' having completed the planned courses. Had I paid for it out of my own pocket I'd be asking for a refund as the class seems to have been dumped on Coursera and then abandoned.