I think its good that its given reference material for further readings, but this shouldn't exonerate you from explaining the details of the language, if I wanted to learn swift from apple's documentation I would be there right now, not here, if I'm watching your course its because I expect to learn it here.

The videos are poorly done, and it's hard to follow with practicing in a Playground at the same time. Also, some of the optional material, is required for completing the assessment, which a bit unfair. The material covered in the videos is too basic to be able to apply the principles to a larger programme.

Course seriously needs to be updated!, they use swift 2 and xcode 8 which are not compatible with the current MacOS Catalina. There are workarounds to be found in the forums created by generous past students. I really feel like U of T could at least incorporate the workarounds?

Thank you for the course.

With all my respect to authors, I have something to say:

I beleave all 4 cources in the spesialization could be combine to one. Looks like authors may invest more time and passion to it. I just skipped all videos with Parham Aarabi.

The course was very well organized, but the main topics of the course were still covered. The lessons needed to be more structured and not so ad-hoc. The final assignment was peer reviewed, but the feedback (based on student feedback) was not very useful.

I think this course should not be based on image processing as the name of the course is introduction to swift programming but image processing is not that common. You could teach about database, feed and that kind of more essential things.

The course requires an old version of MacOS and Xcode, which I cannot readily imitate on my MacOS. The instructions stress this, so I selected another course and specialization that uses more up to date versions of Xcode and MacOS.

The format and structure of this class needs some improvement. Having to write some code each weak would be better than answering quizzes and doing the first lines of Swift at the end of the class.

The teaching content is not at the same level of what required to complete the final project, which frustrated the beginners and also stop me from finishing the whole course. What a pity!

Good course and the basics are well explained, but the final exam is way more difficult than the rest of the course and for beginners it´s impossible to do this without researching.

The material is OK, the video quality is regular and the instructors are childish. I prefer the Android specialization where the instructors are more mature and professional.

Overall the course provides a good introduction to the swift language. However, this course is not suitable for completely new learners.

Very basic language features are covered by course. A lot of external links to Apple.com which is more up to date then this course.

Good course. Somewhat odd levels of difficulty. Like the weekly lessons are easy and then the wall goes up in the task at week 5.

The course should have more programming assignments than just having simple quizzes. And please update the language for SWIFT 3.

Professors talk too fast and in an English for those who do not speak often difficult. Extra Stress: swift and English

Somewhat useful, but suffers from what seems to be bad planning and a general lack of focus.

Tedious introduction, delayed second week. Hope that the following section will be better.

It definitively could be a whole lot better, look and learn from Udacity's nanodegree.

Good introduction, it would be even better with a few more presentation on SWIFT.

Very Vaguely explained. Need more optional programming questions for practising

Enjoyed the lectures. I wish there would be more materials to practice with.

I'd like to have practice tasks during the course not only the final one

Went in a slow pace. Enjoyed the modules, especially final assignment.

This course really need examples in final assignment