A challenging course on some advanced topics. The final assignment (the philosophers dining problem) far is too complex and esoteric in my opinion, and marking it is difficult. It could be improved by making the requirements of the final assignment clearer and concrete.

Method of instruction is clear and engaging. The assignments are also interesting and decently challenging. Would have rated 5 if there were more assignments though. Maybe more programming exercises to test the understanding of go's concurrency constructs.

I liked the instructor. The projects grading weren't that consistant, but I learned quite a bit about Go! and some of the inconsistentcy forced me to look for libraries and functions that weren't necessarily covered in class.

A good introduction to concurrency in Golang. It's a bit heavier in theory rather than practice. As others mentioned the initial Moore's Law paper is a bit out of place. I did enjoy the final assignment, however.

Needs more TA and instructor interaction. Lots of outside reading required, but over all a good introduction. You really need to have decent programming skills before attempting this.

could be better. there's a lot of concepts here and UCI condensed a lot of it into a few videos per week. more assignments with clearer docstrings would be more helpful

Excelent course, I've encountered many problems, but the people who were taken the course at the same time helped me a lot, Use the discussion forums!

Good introductory course. It will go quickly if you're already familiar with fundamental programming concepts.

Overall I enjoyed the course but there were a bunch of inconsistencies which where confusing at times.

1 star lost because week 1 is unnecessary. Cool course, as it is easy to do in a week.

There are some errors on tests that have been flagged and haven't been fixed.

Much better when video is chopped up. Easier for microlearning sessions :)

I guess a final project should be their to develop then it would be great

I hope there will be a TA in future. The class is great enough.

Perfect course, with mix of theory and practical examples.

Practical session should be encouraged more

a basic start into the world of golang

less explain on coding parts

It's really a good course.

Lack of visualizations

The course material was very good, and the presenter did an excellent job. I was especially impressed that he gave background conceptual understanding, not just language syntax elements. Slides were pretty good, sometimes very good. But the web site was a mess! At the end, I waited four days (impatiently) for a dining philosophers project to be available for me to grade, so I could finish the course. It never showed up. Finally I went to the forums and responded to someone's request that I review his assignment, and that allowed me to complete the course. There was nothing, nothing in the course anywhere, to tell me that this was either possible or necessary. Why did the web site not give me an assignment to grade when there were multiple students begging to have their assignments graded in the forums? And do course assistants ever respond to forum posts? Very, very bad technical execution of the course.

The course is good but lacks more caring. The Coursera team that assembled the course forget to cut the videos and give proper labeling to the modules. So we have those bizarre names such as M123_4 , which are meaningfulness, and do not add any values to the course. The forums are "western land" with just "review my assignment that I review yours" requests, which is against Coursera conduct code including, and nobody is moderating those. Also, Prof. Harris could have used much more code. Concurrency is not an easy topic, and you'll have to search for a lot of content outside the course to complete the last assignment. That's a pity, because the specialization is very good and could have ended very well.

My critic is only about the content selection, Prof. Harris is great.

I miss more further concret thread concepts and assignments of go lang, like pools, more channel communication stuff and not so much technically informations about physical computer stuff in detail. Week 1 of this course was to much time on this pure technically topics without "hands on code". If these technically topics more a compact meaty advanced summary accross 10 minutes, i mean, would be better.

Content was rushed very quickly. First week content was bit stretched. Although the content was relevant but stretched. Rather reading from slides, content could have being more interactive.

Good course. I think that is good for beginners or someone who has no experience with Go and programming in general. For more advanced, is quite too low in content