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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 YOG R D

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May 27, 2020

Well explained but lack of tools of explanations such as animations and real exercise

By Raghavendra S G

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Jan 3, 2020

good course but use less complicated english words which are difficult to understand.

By Thanapong B

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Aug 4, 2018

This course gives a good foundation of blockchain. The explanation is pretty concise.

By Gokul G

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Apr 4, 2020

Basic Details are explained in a detailed manner and final assessment was also great

By Jose B R G

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Sep 26, 2020

Very clear to take a good foundations in terms of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum.

By Balamuralikrishna B

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Apr 25, 2022

The course is at very high level, needs more reading to keep pace with the course.

By Amrit P P

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Aug 23, 2020

awesome course .. only sugesstion i have is either VM or script need to be updated

By Dazhi W

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Jul 14, 2021

This course is an easy introduction. Could be finished within 2 or 3 days easily.

By Avinash S

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Feb 17, 2019

Explains the concepts in very efficient manner with Great Programming Assignment.

By PLN R

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Dec 9, 2018

Pretty decent for an introductory course! Hope it gets better in further modules!

By Abhishek T

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Jun 27, 2023

The course is nicely designed but i felt that the videos can be more informative

By Ragib H

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Aug 28, 2021

Instead of the main lecture resources the optional resources are more valuable.

By Timo K

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Mar 26, 2021

-Multiple links point to non-existing pages

+ The video lectures are very good.

By Rahul S

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Aug 12, 2018

Best course for learning basics about blockchain,ethereum and smart contracts.

By Aleksandar P

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Feb 25, 2019

It was to easy. CLI command should be included in the programming assignment.

By SHUBHAM G

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Oct 15, 2018

There should be also tutorial on how to use software .

SInce we are beginners.

By Anish K

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Feb 3, 2020

Content could be a bit more detailed and expressive. Overall a great course.

By Danilo M

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May 18, 2021

El contenido del curso estuvo bueno pero el proyecto final deja que desear.

By K G V

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May 28, 2020

learnt basics in block chain.frustrated while submitting the final project.

By Welborn M

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May 19, 2019

Everything was perfect. Just need improvements in instructions for courses.

By Paul B

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Oct 4, 2021

Instructions for the assignment and description weren't that great/helpful

By Rohan

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Aug 19, 2020

The course was nice, could have been a bit more descriptive and conceptual

By Hariom V

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Apr 30, 2020

The final assignment could be less frustrating.

Though the course was good.

By Vinay M

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Nov 19, 2018

Programming assignment should be more verbose with more technical details.

By Dipen G

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Jul 1, 2018

I had to watch each video at least two times, but all in all, it was good.