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Learner Reviews & Feedback for C for Everyone: Programming Fundamentals by University of California, Santa Cruz

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About the Course

This course is for everyone. In the new world we live in, coding is a universally valuable skill, whether you're a scientist, artist, or a humanist. Algorithms are everywhere, and we all have to understand how they work. The C language is particularly well suited as an introduction to coding: It's a tried-and-true language, and it allows you to understand computing processes at a deep level. No prior knowledge of coding is needed for this course. We'll start at the beginning. The time estimated time commitment for this course is five hours a week for five weeks....

Top reviews

MA

Jun 21, 2020

I am really happy I did this course. The instructor is a really experienced teacher. This course gave a good start for learning the fundamentals and moving onto complex programming languages like C++.

CN

Apr 21, 2020

Great course to gain a foundation in C programming! The video lectures, coding examples, and peer reviewing of assignments allows one to learn quick and in real time. Would definitely recommend it.

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By Oriol V P

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Feb 3, 2021

El curso bien....

Otros estudiantes de habla inglesa no facilitan ..... todo el nivel de adaptación a la comprenssión es tuyo, Por consiguiente pierdes puntos en las pruebas de codigo

By Omar K

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Dec 27, 2020

Not recommend for beginners at all. A lot of point skipped or not completely explained. Poor hand-written slides.

Don't enroll if you are a beginner and need to learn the basics.

By seda

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May 18, 2021

Unfortunately I had to drop this course as it is not a beginner friendly and the syllabus is prepared for the people who have underlying knowledge about fundamentals.

By Faik E A

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Apr 10, 2023

I've been learning java for a year, I know many fundamental about programming, and I want to learn c language in this course but course wont learn you clearly.

By Masihullah H

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Dec 12, 2020

the lectures were hand written on a board which was not readable

I would suggest the professor to use a typed material like ppt etc

By Rene A L

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Oct 22, 2020

For a beginners course, not many basic topics are explained.Videos could be enhanced using power point slides

By Zyad W K

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Aug 24, 2020

the quality of the course drops like a snowball the more we get into the course, it started off great tho

By Warda Y S

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Jun 8, 2021

I think this course is helpful but it has some confusion so i hope you will correct it

By Jacob B

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Nov 5, 2021

The professor is just talking as he programs. You arent being taught, but showed.

By Pranav A

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Jan 28, 2024

i could only understand everything because it was taught in my college as well.

By Hamza M

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May 28, 2020

Your writing on the board is very difficult to understand

By 1ds18ee071 A

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Sep 16, 2021

Compiler should have been integrated with the course .

By Ilakiya .

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Oct 26, 2022

good excellant course for learning

By Neel D

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Jan 28, 2022

it is not good as expected

By 18wh1a0561 V R

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May 21, 2020

the course was good .

By UTKARSH A

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Jun 14, 2020

booring explanation

By Mohit N

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Jun 23, 2020

very hectic course

By ANIKET G

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Jun 14, 2020

NOT PROPER VICE

By Aditi U

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Dec 1, 2020

very good

By Karolina J

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Mar 11, 2024

very dry

By Beckett C

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Jun 17, 2022

no

By Marcus M

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Oct 5, 2020

This is one of the worst beginner courses on here. It is clearly not for everyone. You cannot call it fundamentals without actually teaching the fundamentals. There is a severe lack of detail in these lessons and a big assumption on the part of the instructor that you have previous knowledge of some of the concepts he’s discussing. I have never received assignments before in which what you are supposed to produce is not something you were taught in the lesson. This course at the very least needs to be renamed. Saying C for Everyone is misleading. Instructor would be great for intermediate/advanced courses but to teach a beginner the assumption must be that we know nothing. Not that we have some obscure but limited knowledge of what you discuss. This is the first coursera course I truly felt lost in and am very dissatisfied by. I would hope this course is revised for future terms.

By Miguel S E

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Jun 12, 2022

Even when the course description says that you don't need a lot of previous knowledge about programming, this course requires a lot of time searching by your own a lot of information that is not provided, even for completing the weekly tasks. Specially the beginning is quite frustrating and the professor is not really clear in the most of the classes. Also, the videos are quite poor quality, difficult to understand his handwriting and usually not giving basic information that someone who is learning to programming doesn't have. Also, this is the general attitude at the beginning even for access to the basic tools. How the Lab works is also not very well explained. This is surely not a course for someone "who doesn't have previous knowledge about programming".

By Wajeeha

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Jun 29, 2022

As a beginner, I thought this course will develop my basic grip on computer programming, but in the contrast, this course is somehow designed for those students who already have some preliminary programming background. I have tried multiple times to download all the necessary tools and compilers, but I have failed miserably. This course did not meet my expectations, and I am extremely embarrassed to continue learning although I secured financial aid. How I am going to perform If I don't even know the ABC of C/C++ programming, this course has proved not to be something that a beginner can digest without any basics.

By Nandi T

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Oct 8, 2021

This man is the worst teacher that i've ever seen! First of all i don't understand why he doesn't do the exercises both on windows vsc and his mac? All of the courses that i've took before and it was for windows and mac the teacher always did 2 videos 1 for windows and the other for mac! The other thing is that this is a beginner course yet he doesn't explain a lot of things! The code he's writing is outdated and if you write the same code in vsc it will give errors! a good example is that the printf function doesn't work anymore and instead the cout << needs to used! 1 star from me!