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About the Course

Welcome to our course on Object Oriented Programming in Java using data visualization. People come to this course with many different goals -- and we are really excited to work with all of you! Some of you want to be professional software developers, others want to improve your programming skills to implement that cool personal project that you’ve been thinking about, while others of you might not yet know why you’re here and are trying to figure out what this course is all about. This is an intermediate Java course. We recommend this course to learners who have previous experience in software development or a background in computer science. Our goal is that by the end of this course each and every one of you feels empowered to create a Java program that’s more advanced than any you have created in the past and that is personally interesting to you. In achieving this goal you will also learn the fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming, how to leverage the power of existing libraries, how to build graphical user interfaces, and how to use some core algorithms for searching and sorting data. And this course is project-based, so we’ll dive right into the project immediately! We are excited to be offering a unique course structure, designed to support learners of different backgrounds in succeeding at their own pace. The first module explains how this will work and if this course is right for you. We also recommend taking a few minutes to explore the course site. A good place to start is the navigation bar on the left. Click Course Content to see what material we’ll cover each week, as well preview the assignments you’ll need to complete to pass the course. Click Discussions to see forums where you can discuss the course material with fellow students taking the class. Be sure to introduce yourself to everyone in the Meet and Greet forum. This course should take about 6 weeks to complete. You can check out the recommended course schedule below to see a quick overview of the lessons and assignments you’ll complete each week. We’re excited you’re here learning with us. Let’s get started!...

Top reviews

DB

Oct 12, 2017

Great into to Java, instructors have clearly put thought in to the format with the choose your own learning style videos, and additional coverage where it may be needed. These have been very helpful.

LR

Oct 13, 2015

I loved this course! The course videos and the projects sharpened my idea about some of the toughest concepts of Java and OOP. I recommend this course to anyone interested in learning OOP in Java. ☺

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By NHIAL A

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Jan 8, 2023

Need upto date explaination

By Salman Q

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Nov 27, 2017

It could have been better.

By Lasal J

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Jan 30, 2021

Needs a bit of update.

By Mikhail K

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Mar 12, 2019

Not that bad

By Abhishek K

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Sep 2, 2017

Good course

By Yuzuru

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Nov 13, 2021

Mediocre

By Chouta H V S L S

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Dec 26, 2021

good

By YOUNGJUN Y

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Aug 28, 2017

ver

By Fuad Y

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Oct 12, 2016

ok

By Harshitha N S

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Jun 27, 2020

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By Kerstin K

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May 23, 2017

Came from the predecessor specialization by Duke, which was really great. So I had high expectations for this course.

But this course introduces not much new (only some library using), no new programming concepts. I also didn't like the programming assignments (one "big" project). They were not challenging at all (much too easy), and also not really interesting (repetition and expansion of an assignment at Dukes). You are also not writing that much code, because you get too much from them, where you just have to add a little here and there.

Liked, that they divided the videos into different stages (core, concept challenge, when I struggled), so you only have to watch the videos, that you find necessary.

I hope the next course will be more interesting and challenging.

By Yuqiao G

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Mar 14, 2022

The course itself is great, but I highly discourage any further participation before:

1. TA's assistance became avaliable again. The forum is extremely poor in quality and it takes decades before you find information you need (if there is any).

2. The relevant knowledge is updated. The course is great, but some functions are obsolete.

3. The removal of peer revising stage. You don't really get revised, and you don't have anything to revise. It felt like a dead course where no one offer you help at this moment.

I'm not really seeking for a certificate - just reinforcing my knowledge here. I learnt great contents here, but it really doesn't provide much assistance in case of need.

By Heaven H

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Oct 12, 2015

The lectures were too wordy and the lecturers tripped over their words too often (which wouldn't have made it so difficult to listen if the lectures hadn't been so wordy!). There was too much focus on high-level details of the course project and too little attention paid to technical details. This rendered the lectures simplistic, boring, and sometimes a waste of time. This felt like an introductory level course, made more difficult through poor teaching.

Also, the slick web interface was slightly difficult to navigate in comparison to other Coursera courses.

By taha r

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Feb 16, 2017

One suggestion i give to you that, please level of difficulty increase in a way that the learner not face to much thing in a single assignment. So, create assignment like that learner learn less thing but accurately. For example in this assignment you only build a relations between classes and marker on a map for only CityMarkerMap.java class and in the next module you implement LandMarker.java and so on. So, please this is my request in the future make assignments in a way that the Learner less thing but efficiently and accurately.

By Jason C

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Oct 25, 2015

While the material is relevant, the exercises required too much specific knowledge that was not discussed in lecture. For an experienced programmer, most of the exercises were easy, but I admit I had to look ahead on two of the projects because the instructions were too lacking. The final project was too open ended and made me not want to finish this course.

Overall, I would not recommend this course.

By K A

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Jan 3, 2024

The course is laid out well, better than the ones from Duke, but the tech used is very outdated. They talk about applets and use Eclipse. Very disappointing because the project looked cool. Lost another star for having a mandatory peer reviewed assignment. No one does these and no one grades them. Your certificate is held hostage for months until someone grades you.

By Akarsh D

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Aug 31, 2023

The program is severely outdated. Most GUI-based learnings and code are depreciated and extremely difficult to set up on modern machines. While the problems and methods discussed are good and definitely challenging, in my opinion, the course doesn't delve deep enough into inheritance and other OOP-related concepts.

By Marina K

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Jan 28, 2024

You're using applets for course projects and it was EOL long ago including java 6 and java 8. All modern IDEs (Intellij, Eclipse, etc) either got rid of all applet plugins or keep crashing whenever you try to launch something. Please update your course projects to use latest tech stacks

By Ron F

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Mar 17, 2024

The Java content is fine, but the tools required are out of date which make it frustrating to complete the course. The packages are too old to run in modern IDEs and finding the right combination of outdated technologies to use was frustrating.

By Christopher M P

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Oct 6, 2020

Would have been great seven years ago...but the course requires you to use Java Applets, which are discontinued with good reason. This means running Java 8, which can create numerous further errors for most editors.

By Bruno M

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Oct 11, 2015

If you think this is an introduction to Java programming language you are wrong.What do you want? Do you want teach us to use Processing or teach us to program in Java?

By Farhan H P

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Aug 16, 2020

This course is very hard to follow, you are not building the program from scratch. But instead they force you to learn Processing module independently by yourself

By PATLOLLA S R

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Apr 20, 2020

They taught the outdated module (i.e)PApplet which is included till java8 version ,from later version that module was not included in java software(like java12).

By Jordan B

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May 29, 2022

Learned some important stuff but this course is outdated. I had to jump through several hoops to make it work.

By Nikolay K

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Jan 22, 2021

Almost useless course. The lessons have nothing in connection to assignments. Waste of time.