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The course is extremely theoretical and academic, which I do not have a problem with, however it does make it difficult to understand and achieve following adherence througout the course. It would have been more beneficial and excellent if the course was explained more beginner-friendly, pragmatic, simplistic and more focus on describing and explaining programming fundamentals and crucial concepts. I appreciate the course and the individuals who participated and formulated to the design of the course, but I found the course to be highly difficult, hard to follow, unclear or ambigious in certain instances and frustrating as I felt disheartned and dissapointed in my own ability to grasp the course's material. I do not think blaming it on my own cognitive abilities is 100% fair, I do think it's a two way relationship and if the teacher or lecturer is great or good, then they are, but this was not how I experienced this course. It needs to be broken down into understanable detail that anyone can follow. Nevertheless, I am grateful to have received the oppertunity and luxury of finishing this course contents. Thank you Duke University for all your time, dedication, resources, effort and energy.

The presentation of this course is very good. The content for me is however very bad. The formula presented here for writing code is presented as the only correct way to write code. As you can imagine this is not really true and I expected a bit more nuance from such a well rated university. The worst thing for me were the tests, they just fellt like hard puzzles that had nothing really to do with programming but were just a way to show off how smart you have to be to pass this test.

All in all I would not recommend this course as the main thing that I learned was that I did not like the course and not much else.

All the teachers were fabulous and their teaching methodology was excellent but there should be more video lecture than the reading materials because nobody wants to just read and read cause these thing can also be found on Youtube. And yes, what the hell was that last quiz ? Shouldn't be it a peer graded assignment ? Well I hate peer graded assignment system but still that thing can be done by randomly typing anything, algorithm is not even needed.

This course is way too primitive about many things. Opposed to 20 years ago, having a proper UI to work with does not break my flow while programming, and hasn't done it in my professional life. A proper IDE makes you faster, not slower. But the dealbreaker for me is having to program poker: For god's sake, I took this course to have some fun while refreshing my unused C skills, not try to understand how a mindblowingly boring card game works.

Starting out, the material was easy to grasp. I will warn that once you get towards the end of the first week, it gets ridiculously challenging. It is very discouraging for a student that is completely new to this area of study to feel overwhelmed due to being rushed through point A to point B without having a gradual approach.

Took the course to brush up on C as it had been a couple of years since I touched it. Too many unimportant points take the center stage in this course rather than the actual programming part. Also the title, to say i took an introduction to c course, I'd have to complete the entire specialization.

Although the course was taught well, I seemed to struggle with the quizzes and assignments as they were much more difficult than what was taught in the lectures. I did have to do a lot of external research as well. I am a beginner and so I did struggle quite a bit.

I get a headache in doing this course.

Basically an online course must need to contain more video lectures and some readings but hear it's totally opposite.

If there is an option to update the course mean try to include more video lectures.

would have been better if the enumerated type and struct would have been explained better. Also videos on binary, decimal, hex and octal would have been better.

No help at point of questions. No option but to re-take modules which are no help if you have taken them multiple times and still don't know the answer.

courses must be in different languages as well other than english , like English+Hindi or in Hindi as it takes less time to understand and learn.

More videos should be there instead of the written content. Less clarity of me understanding your courses videos.

the course could be made giving less complex examples.explanation part was very poor.

Need more videos instead of paragraphs of texts. Very difficult to digest the words.

its self reading course and is tough to crack for beginner.

More info is in text form than video

wont recommend waste of time

boring and dry

too basic.

This course is incredible basic, I only did it for the specialisation but I should have known better and just unenrolled. It turns from just very basic to very bad. The later courses are mostly readings from the book "All of Programming" which is one of the worst programming books I've ever seen on Goodreads it has a rating of just 2.3/5 If that would have been disclosed earlier I would have not wasted my time with this. Choosing C as a language for an entry level course in programming also is a brave idea. A look into the discussion forums shows a lot of people just unenroll in the later courses. There are much better C courses on coursera.

There are better courses to learn about programing basics around Coursera. The manner of teaching is more of a read all these notes I gave you and understanding it well and very minimal lecture to elaborate on the topic. Some of the topic would have been easier to teach in video form rather than reading a note but nope.... For those who takes this course with the hope of completing the specialization, just go away... the programming environment and grader is not working 95% of the time ( I tried to get into it 10x already) which prevents you to complete the next few courses.

So disappointed in this class/specialization. The tools (programming environment) is buggy, slow, and a pain to use. Instruction is lacking in content and clarity. Had to waste massive amounts of time googling and looking up explanations on discussion boards.

I've taken over 50 Coursera courses, and this is the first specialization I quit because I just couldn't keep putting more effort into taking the course than the instructors put into making it.

I took the algorithms example and could already tell this course was pathetic. It makes 0 sense to start counting occupation of a graph at 0. Will never take another course at Puke University.