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.

There were no practical exercises to complete, despite a "programming sandbox" being available-- The course material was very good, and the videos helpful, but the lack of practical exercises made the course less than worthwhile.

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.

Wow this course is just awful.....The videos are not helpful in anyway and this course was not what I expected and definitely not for beginners looking to learn how to use code with C.

very complicated nothing explained clearly

we had so much to read rather than video explanations i could have got that that even in a book

it didnt started from basics as promised

coursera's grading system by launching labs isn't working at all and the assignment is marked as 'unattempted' even though one has tried doing it for several times!

What a waste of a credit. Desorganized information, slow pace but then jumping foward... and so on

sir at least give us some idea why our answer to given question is wrong. it only show incorrect.

I dropped the course due to technical issues on Duke's side. Can't complete the assignments.

please mention my correct name in my certificate .i get frustated to change it

I am not geeting my certificate after completing the course ehat can i do

the teacher are very uninteresting and totally kill the desire to learn

The most confusing class i've had the misfortune to take. Awful.

sorry but i failed to understand the course may be i am lagging .

not very interesting. Need more improvement on course material.

in the certificate the full name of university is not their

the worst programing website i have seen worst

the grading system is trash