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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Cloud Computing Concepts, Part 1 by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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About the Course

Cloud computing systems today, whether open-source or used inside companies, are built using a common set of core techniques, algorithms, and design philosophies – all centered around distributed systems. Learn about such fundamental distributed computing "concepts" for cloud computing. Some of these concepts include: clouds, MapReduce, key-value/NoSQL stores, classical distributed algorithms, widely-used distributed algorithms, scalability, trending areas, and much, much more! Know how these systems work from the inside out. Get your hands dirty using these concepts with provided homework exercises. In the programming assignments, implement some of these concepts in template code (programs) provided in the C++ programming language. Prior experience with C++ is required. The course also features interviews with leading researchers and managers, from both industry and academia....

Top reviews

MR

Jul 15, 2017

Great course, I would recommend to everyone who wants to understand the basics of cloud computing. The course material is excellent, the instructor Indy is phenomenal and the exams are marvelous.

DP

Oct 6, 2016

This instructor is fantastic. He is exceptionally thorough and his delivery is very good as well. This is a course definitely worth taking if you are interested in learning more about the cloud.

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By Derek Z

Apr 8, 2018

Very very tough class. The notes are very intensive for each lecture.

By Jerry Z

Jun 26, 2016

It's a great course, but the assignments are kind of annoying.

By Arseni L

Jan 1, 2020

Course is great, but some lectures feel slightly outdated

By shivam p

Sep 10, 2017

This is by far the best course i have seen in courseera

By Xiangzhen S

Oct 18, 2016

Very difficult programming assignment if not an expert.

By Xiuyu H

Dec 27, 2019

Nice quiz and assignment! Interesting teacher :)

By kim g

Feb 21, 2019

Covered the basics of cloud computing very well.

By Suresh V

Apr 23, 2019

To the point videos and very good assignments.

By Shyam S N

Dec 22, 2016

Good introduction to the concepts.

By PRASHANT K

Jan 22, 2022

It was great learning experience.

By Bobby Y (

Jun 7, 2023

Assignment submit file is so bad

By nikhil n

Nov 9, 2016

Nice Course with Nice Tasks.

By Weidong X

Sep 8, 2019

Great course.

By Nguyen Q L

May 23, 2019

Good Course !

By TOM V

Jan 14, 2019

Comprehensive

By Kartik S

Jun 27, 2022

good

By LAROUSSI M

Dec 18, 2021

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By Andrzej R

Apr 27, 2022

Many interesting topics covered by the course, but : 1. Quizzes it would be great to be able to know the answers to all questions e.g. after you pass quiz + explanation why it is a correct answer. Had some issues with quizzes:

- I could not understand some questions (I'm not a native english speaker, so this might be a reason) I've checked the forum, and found that other students had similar problems. - Not all inforamtion required to pass quiz in lectures

2. Time - at least for me it was not 4h weekly to pass it. E.g. coursera displayed inforamtion that week 5 quiz takes on average 2,5 hours

By Nandhini V

Jul 8, 2017

The course was very interesting and the assignment was good.

I had trouble submitting the assignment though I finished it a month back. The submission was tougher than the assignment and the course itself. I have only windows OS, and the assignment materials are for Linux and Mac users. I had to use Cygwin to compile and run grader script. Submission didn't work from cygwin. I would have rated this course 5 if not for the trouble that I encountered for submitting the assignment.

By Shane S

Oct 5, 2020

The video lecture content is pretty good and the homeworks seem decent. The programming assignment provides some code that is a travesty to work with. I spent a couple hours refactoring what I could before I realized I was stuck using some fundamentally poor datatypes for the problem at hand. No support in the forums for the many complaints about the assignment. I would rate 5 stars if only the experience with the programming assignment was something even approaching decent.

By Justin N

Sep 22, 2020

The content is pretty good. The content of the quizzes was good, but the last few quizzes are extremely and unnecessarily long. The programming assignment was just really unpleasant and enough for me to walk away from the entire certification. The starter template for that assignment is really poorly written and I found it difficult to get started. Good luck finding useful support in the discussion forums.

By Keerthana S K

Jun 22, 2020

This course content covers lot of diverse topics but I would prefer the explanation to be more comprehensive and in depth so that a beginner can understand the big picture as well as the details more vividly.The assignment was pretty good which creates a good learning curve in C++(especially pointers) and understanding of the one of the most important concepts in cloud computing.

By Raul K

Mar 31, 2023

Theoretical part is about some cloud computing protocols and the level of discussions is not aimed well - some parts are given in a lot of detail, but some iformation is not explained enough. It is not clear why such general discussions have to be combined by requirement to write quite technical programs in C++

By Rachana N A

Dec 3, 2016

The concepts are explained very well. The only issue was the Programming assignment, which could have been more descriptive. Also, they could've given us the option of choosing a programming language.

By Tao Z

Feb 26, 2017

The course contents are composed of some superficial concepts of cloud computing. And the code framework for programing assignment written in c++ is probably the worst kind of code I've ever seen.