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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Blockchain Basics by University at Buffalo

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About the Course

This first course of the Blockchain specialization provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developing applications and programming. You will be equipped with the knowledge needed to create nodes on your personal Ethereum blockchain, create accounts, unlock accounts, mine, transact, transfer Ethers, and check balances. You will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, an immutable distributed ledger and the trust model that defines a blockchain. This course enables you to explain basic components of a blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain) its operations (verification, validation, and consensus model) underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Content includes the hashing and cryptography foundations indispensable to blockchain programming, which is the focus of two subsequent specialization courses, Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (Dapps). You will work on a virtual machine image, specifically created for this course, to build an Ethereum test chain and operate on the chain. This hands-on activity will help you understand the workings of a blockchain, its transactions, blocks and mining. Main concepts are delivered through videos, demos and hands-on exercises....

Top reviews

TT

Nov 18, 2018

This is an introductory course to Blockchain. The supplemented material (in other words self-study) is excellent and in my opinion is the only way to master the concepts and details of this discipline

SJ

Feb 4, 2022

Really learned a lot about the fundamentals of blockchain, being a software engineer looking into blockchain. It just got me up to speed with the underlying workflow of blockchain and more. loved it.

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By Marcos D D

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Feb 27, 2021

Absolutely amazing optional resources. They give great insight to understand the topic, even on 2021. Broken links and lack of support were the only reasons not to give 5 stars.

By Muthukrishnan T

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Jul 3, 2020

course was very good and interesting. i have enjoyed learning the course and i am excited to complete the project and assignments too. Thanks a lot for such a wonderful course.

By Simon M

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Mar 5, 2019

Very good and enjoyable with lots of additional material allowing me to delve and investigate further. Still a little confused in some areas - but that's Blockchain I guess!

By Bhukya R

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Jul 26, 2024

I have came across a lot of information prior to my previous knowledge, I recommend to go these course if your have any doubts about the basics of the Blockchain Technology

By Sajad K S

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Aug 26, 2022

It could be better if the vocally delivered materials were organized in slides. However overall items were refered to within slides but they were not comprehensive enough.

By om s

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Jul 6, 2020

etherum.ova file need to be update . overall these course was amazing . I am very thank full to coursera and respected Mam Bina Ramamurthy for guiding me for these course.

By Aditya V

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Feb 10, 2021

It was good but i feel the video lectures can be more long and explanatory.I thought the video learning aspect would be much bigger than it was before taking this course.

By Anirban M

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Jul 26, 2019

The course videos are good. But some of the links given in the questions of the quiz are not working. The instructions for the final project could be better in my opinion.

By Zubin S

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Oct 23, 2022

If there were more conceptual questions in each of the quizes after each lecture then it would be very helpful in the learning process.

Anyways nice course, thank you

By Serge G

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Jun 12, 2018

Good introduction to the subject. I would have appreciated more courseware content and less references to URLs. I'd suggest to make the slides available for downloads.

By Yuhang J

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Oct 25, 2022

Teaching part is good and concise, however the final assignment is terribly instructed. Lots of details are also out dated and the team simply refuses to upkeep it.

By Hariprasath T

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Sep 22, 2020

It is a very nice course but some of the links are outdated which made it impossible to answer some questions in the graded section and learning section.(optional)

By Bédu L

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Jun 17, 2022

Il manque d'images, de vidéos et de croquis afin de comprendre visuellement le fonctionnement et s'en souvenir avec des images. Sinon bien expliqué et exercice

By Guzmán L

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Jul 15, 2020

Very good introduction to blockchain. I am not giving it five stars because some links were broken to do the online test and had to find a workaround alone.

By Eric H

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Aug 4, 2018

Presenter was good, but I prefer a presenters with a clearer voice(no accent) for this learning environment only, in a personal setting it would not matter.

By Junhewk K

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Jun 28, 2021

The course is great in terms of lectures and test, but some links in the materials are broken since the course haven't reorganized after launched, I guess.

By Ghazanfar A

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Jul 31, 2022

Overall this course is very helpful to understand the basics of blockchain, it would be much better it it also give basic coding concept of solidity also.

By Thomas T

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May 6, 2022

Could also include some basic/fundementals of the code needed i.e., programming language etc., or at least trying to read some code in a penalty free mode

By Francisco C

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Sep 19, 2021

It was good overall. Some points to improve: Some links of the optional content were not working. I didn't find the Practitioners Perspective very useful.

By Zhang L

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Mar 5, 2021

As an introduction course to the blockchain, i think it's good enough. But, personally, Professor's accent made it difficult for me to follow the lessons.

By Chung D

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Dec 26, 2021

Video is good. However it would be great if we can put subtitle inside video and have options for users to select what kind of subtitle they want to see.

By Mark W A S

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Nov 7, 2018

Great introduction to the blockchain space with enough technical detail and pointers to further information to make a rich and useful learning experience

By Atharva K

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Sep 1, 2021

The course was great, It really helped me understand the basics of the blockchain technology and also helped me identify it's potential in the future.

By Juan S G

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Sep 30, 2020

Really good introduction to Blockchain technology, the course share very useful information to understand the potential and what is really behind it.

By Jeena M G

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Feb 18, 2019

It is really useful. I felt some terms were familiar to me and so it was easy to pick up, but for others I don't know if they would face any issues.