Learner Reviews & Feedback for Principles of Computing (Part 2) by Rice University
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IB
Jun 11, 2017
Phew, this course was much harder than the preceding courses. Some assignments took many hours of work over several days. But it's doable, and well worth it.
RL
Jun 29, 2020
Interesting, but challenging course. Some weeks might take longer than a week, but don't give up. If you pull through, you have accomplished quite a lot.
26 - 50 of 57 Reviews for Principles of Computing (Part 2)
By DAVID P P
•Apr 30, 2017
Very challenging projects and a very interesting way to learn about data structures. Lecturers are really great
By Tobias R
•Dec 9, 2020
Challenging, but I learned so much.
Great staff, it is fun and absolutely worthwhile.
Thank You :-)
By Hector G S G
•Aug 4, 2022
Great course! It really helps you to stretch your limits and makes you become better at coding!
By Jayadev H
•Jun 5, 2018
wonderfully fun assignments!:)
Last one is killer... hardest one I faced on Coursera!:)
By Guanyu B
•Oct 4, 2020
This course is perfect. It helped me to step into Python in a very interesting way.
By Siwei L
•Dec 9, 2017
very helpful course, the projects are challenging but interesting to work on!
By wangcai z
•Feb 26, 2017
it's great!. The assignments are very interesting!!!I love this course!
By Ken
•Dec 12, 2017
great course - really gets you thinking about coding efficiently
By RAVI R
•Jul 2, 2017
Must have course to build foundation on computational thinking.
By Jaehwi C
•Nov 4, 2017
The best course to study computer science for beginner!
By ravindranadh g
•Apr 17, 2017
excellent course to improve logic skills of programming
By Tom S
•Jan 16, 2018
Very enlightening. Excellent assistance from staff.
By Dinghan X
•Feb 7, 2019
the last week is really challenging but l like it
By Albert C G
•Oct 17, 2017
Great Course - learned a lot - Great Projects
By A&Tower
•May 17, 2016
I love you teaching staffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By zhengyu t
•Sep 14, 2021
Tough yet rewarding course
By Arthur-Lance
•Jun 22, 2017
i feel powerful !!! :)
By James T B
•Aug 21, 2019
Great course!
By Ganapathi N K
•Nov 11, 2017
Mind blowing
By Matteo B
•Aug 28, 2017
Nice course.
By Jon Z
•Feb 11, 2017
buja!
By Arjun K B
•Feb 25, 2020
Excellent course and challenging assignments. Learnt a lot!
Something which I did not like was CodeSkulptor, which is substandard for somebody used to running full-fledged editors like VSCode/Atom. Also, the editor was relatively tiny on the browser on my smallish laptop screen.
I understand that a lot of people are new to computer science and python, and might find it hard to set up a local development environment on their machines, but forcing the rest of us to use CodeSkulptor was a turn-off.
Even if I copy over the starter code, there would still be other classes used within it whose implementations I would not have.
Other than that, I really enjoyed the course. Keep up the excellent standards!
By Steven K
•Oct 3, 2019
Very good course, especially the lessons on recursion and breadth-first searching. Lessons were very good and quizzes really served to reinforce material. Projects in this course were much more challenging than previous ones.
Final project (15 puzzle) was very frustrating and didn't seem designed to teach as many skills as previous projects; just seemed like it was designed to be complicated and difficult because it was the last project.
By Kelly G
•Dec 22, 2018
Overall a great course, with a few glitches: 1. The tests for the homework are not working properly. 2. The amount of homework is a bit overwhelming for an introductory course.
By Michael B
•Oct 14, 2017
Great course, but the final project in W4 is very long compared the rest of the projects in this series of courses. Content is still top notch though.