Very basic

Examples and projects are somewhat "sandbox" grade, without touching real problems of this field. Code and tests quality is poor in my opinion.

I would consider it as a overview of possible approaches, not a course. Assigments could be frustating because outcome is sometimes non-deterministic (I wasted few hours of my time because of this, it turned out that my solution was fine). Sometimes given examples are not following Java documentation in details. They could not work in corner cases. It should not be the case in the course made by professionals.

Compared to the other courses I took authors of this one did not put much effort in preparing good materials and exercises. Course can by challenging by means of standing frustration assigments could give you. And in my opinion not because it is hard to pass them and they are demanding. It is because they are not properly prepared.

I have mixed feeling about specializations. This topic can be hard. And course mentions most of the important topics in non-sequential computer computing essential to making working systems. But it does not give deep insight in many of them.

This was a good course and covered all the topics relevant to the course. I liked the Optimistic Concurrency in week 4 - that was an area I was not exposed to before

This is the worst online course I ever had. Especially the programming assignment. You just need to change one line or add one line, which makes this course like a video tutorial. Definitely not for an intermediate level learner.

The course is pretty good and lays down the basic theoretical knowledge about concurrency needed to begin developing expertise in this field. The quizzes and projects help you remember and understand the theoretical aspects while at the same time the projects also give you a glimpse of how the learned theory and aspects are applied in a more realistic coding setting rather than pseudo code.

"It takes a genius to make it simple.”

Prof. Sarkar has explained and illustrated some of the complex concurrency and parallelism concepts in very simple terms. Even an experienced concurrency java developer will have something to take away from these classes.

Thank you.

Great introduction to concurrent programming concepts. Well-paced. Instructor is clear and personable. The mini-projects feel a little too easy sometimes, but at that point it's up to me to dig deeper and learn more on the topics. I enjoyed this course very much.

Great course. With minimal effort you can learn about important concepts and see immediate results regarding the actual speedup you can achieve using concurrent programming.

Short and easy to understand multi-threading with locks, object-based isolation, Actors, Atomic values and optimistic concurrency.

Hard course, we need more assignments, small chunks. Making assignments for courses like these is not trivial as well.

Very practical course, it gave me understanding details about concurrency I've never heard before.

Thanks Professor

Very good course on concurrency that can be applied to many other programming languages as well.

Great course in the series on Parallel, Concurrent and Distributed Programming in Java.

one best course to understand the foundation for threads and concurrent programming.

The course is very good, teaching in simple way several complex questions.

I enjoyed doing this course more than the Parallel Programming in Java

Great course to understand the fundamentals of concurrent programming!

Fine survey of the core concepts supported by mini project and quizes

Very interesting and comprehensive. Maybe a little bit too easy.

very nice content and throughly articulated the difficult topic

Great course, it focuses on the basics and let you master them

Great prof, great material, great TAs ...

Highly recommended!

Much stronger in mini-projects than the first course.

Amazing course to learn about concurrent programming

Excellent! Great thanks to professor Vivek Sarkar