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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Interfacing with the Raspberry Pi by University of California, Irvine

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    About the Course

    The Raspberry Pi uses a variety of input/output devices based on protocols such as HDMI, USB, and Ethernet to communicate with the outside
    world. In this class you will learn how to use these protocols with other external devices (sensors, motors, GPS, orientation, LCD screens etc.) to
    get your IoT device to interact with the real world. Most physical devices use analog signals; however computer hardware is digital so in this
    class you will learn how these signals are converted back-and-forth and how this must be considered as you program your device. The basic
    design of a sensor-actuator system will also be covered. You will also learn how to build more sophisticated hardware system...
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    Top reviews

    BS

    Sep 3, 2019

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    The course was pretty interesting and I learnt a lot of new things from this course. I have gained confidence to try something new b myself after completing this course and hope I do so in the future

    DP

    Nov 25, 2018

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    Course is great, but it takes forever to grade classmates. For example, by the end of the last week homework , I had to wait two weeks till someone was available to grade.

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    By Dean P

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    Nov 25, 2018

    Course is great, but it takes forever to grade classmates. For example, by the end of the last week homework , I had to wait two weeks till someone was available to grade.

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    By Heung K L C

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    May 11, 2020

    Hi Professor Harris and team, can you please make reviewing your peers work non-accessible until students have at least pass their own assignment? I noticed a lot of people are submitting trash which I presume they are simply bi-passing the requirement to submit the assignment to see what others have submitted then simply copy and paste as their own work. Furthermore, is it possible to create alerts for when people do submit their work? I found myself on several occasions having to constantly monitor and refresh the review your peers work page just so I can be the first to review someone else's work to graduate from my own course.

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    By Christian C

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    Jul 16, 2020

    Please help grade my assignments!! I don't want my subscription to end!

    https://kidlove.top/learn/raspberry-pi-interface/peer/LFpsP/write-a-simple-web-server-on-your-raspberry-pi/review/gZenicbTEeqz6goYnzmy-Q

    https://kidlove.top/learn/raspberry-pi-interface/peer/KxQ86/read-the-contents-of-a-web-page/review/xkBnl8bTEeqz6goYnzmy-Q

    https://kidlove.top/learn/raspberry-pi-interface/peer/vWsUI/connect-an-led-to-your-raspberry-pi/review/zNgK8MbxEeqT8hI20FoB2Q

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    By Clair D

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    Mar 11, 2016

    As always, great work by Prof. Harris.

    The typos in the code slide near the end of week four should be cleaned up -- I always try out code as soon as it shows up. I spent a long time with the code on that slide, but got it to work eventually, and the typos were acknowledged in the demo lecture.

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    By Alexandru C

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    Feb 29, 2016

    The course was very nice and useful and the explanations were very good!

    The biggest problem of this course was that it required to be purchased in order to unlock the quizzes and the assignments. I don't know who decided to do this (the organizers of this course or Coursera) but I don't think it was a good idea.

    I was not interested (and I am sure I am not the only one) in receiving a certificate. I just wanted to learn and to test the acquired knowledge.

    I realize that it is impossible to improve this project without any money, but you can obtain the needed money from other sources (donations, sponsorships) without affecting those who want to learn. Event that the access to the video was not restricted (thus, many knowledge can still be acquired by those who want), the assignments have their important role in the learning process.

    I saw that I am not the only one who mentioned in the feedbacks the purchasing problem for this course. I hope that these feedbacks will be taken into account and the things will be changed for the next editions of this course.

    To sum up, the information from this course and the manner of providing this, deserves 5 stars. Because of the purchasing issue, I am giving only one star.

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    By Christian B

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    Mar 9, 2020

    I liked the course. It is very well explained step by step. I do think that the course could be extended to a 5 weeks class with more complex IOT examples using the Pi. Maybe the 2 weeks would be optional, since more hardware might be required. But it would be worthwhile.

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    By DADDA M

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    Dec 10, 2019

    Excellent course, i learned a lot of things about TCP/IP, secure shell client/server, how to communicate through internet using socket python programming and how to connect an external module like a camera with raspberry pi using packages !!

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    By Sentekin C

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    Apr 4, 2016

    I love teaching style of Dr. Harris, simple but inclusive. He guesses what you are thinking while you are watching the video.

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    By Damir H

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    Feb 21, 2016

    This course was supposed to be the last one before capstone and what did we learn:

    · Nothing about electronic

    · Huge amount about networking on very basic level – question is what are people without this knowledge at all doing in IoT course

    · How you can tweet from Raspberry Pi (hey, is somebody crazy here)

    · Lot of words about camera, few minutes about servo motor and that’s all.

    We have to write a web server update which is completely unexplained and no one didn’t do it because no one understood it that way (despite the fact that webserver is webserver and server is server) and during whole course no one update the task definition

    There is no discussion board, it was turned off during earlier courses and for me only explanation is that no one from UCI doesn’t care and the certificate for course cost $80-$90.

    Very pathetic approach which I can only explain with 2 words: “Easy money”

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    By Binod

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    Sep 2, 2017

    I enjoyed and learnt a lot after completing this course. Thanks to Mr. Ian G. Harris and management. BUT biggest PROBLEM is there with peer review system. One has completed this course bit earlier, they have to wait till other peer do not review your submitted assignment. And that is NOT good. You have to WAIT AND WASTE your learning time till other person do not review your assignment. Other biggest problem you can NOT jump to any such course where this grade is important to complete. I would like to request to management to review this peer assignment process as I have been waiting to get review my assignment by peers since last 5 days.

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    By Ricardo A d C S

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    Nov 16, 2017

    This course will introduce several items you can use to interface your Rpi with the external world. I strongly suggest you to acquire the camera and a cable to connect the GPIO with the breadboard.

    The classes are very sucint, but the information presented will guide you through the extensive material available in the Internet.

    I congratulate Professor Harris for your work and expect he and his team develop new courses.

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    By Carlos H

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    Jan 16, 2021

    Great material, I have learned plenty and been challenged enough for a beginner to intermediate level. Many topics are covered where you are led the beginning steps to branch out and learn more on your own. The lessons are right to the point, no filler or time wasted. Excellent course!

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    By Deon N

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    Nov 5, 2019

    The course was interesting and practical. I believe there could have been a bit more on the web server interface i.e. what to do with the information extracted. Some examples on how the sensitivity analysis can play out on a twitter feed could have been interesting.

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    By Unity W

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    Sep 9, 2019

    I have completed all the assignments. I have reviewed all peer assignments whatever were available. Kindly generate my course certificate. Its taking so long to generate certificate.

    I request you to kindly generate my course certificate!!

    Thank you!

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    By Bhargav S

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    Sep 3, 2019

    The course was pretty interesting and I learnt a lot of new things from this course. I have gained confidence to try something new b myself after completing this course and hope I do so in the future

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    By MARCO A A J

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    Jun 11, 2018

    First I want to thank you for this course that has given me the opportunity to start in the IoT world, I plan to continue learning to be able to carry out a project about the real world

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    By Harshad G

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    Feb 6, 2021

    Professor Harris has a practical approach to teaching which helped me understand the concepts better and encouraged me to perform different demos and experiments on my own.

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    By Sindhura S

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    Jul 8, 2020

    A very good course with good videos of explanation. Also includes demo videos which are very helpful. Overall the course is very interesting and knowledgeable.

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    By Tetyana R

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    Mar 2, 2018

    It is a really good course! I like the easy way Ian Harris explains difficult things, like socket or low level communication protocols. I wish it was longer!

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    By UJJAVAL P

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    Sep 26, 2020

    Nicely structured course for beginners in the field of IoT. Instructor is always excellent and wonderful experience with evaluation in terms of quizzes.

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    By Basel C

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    Jun 15, 2021

    The instructions are not explicit enough, people are finding difficulty

    Getting reviews / giving reviews is too rare

    The course material however, great!

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    By Prince K G

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    Apr 28, 2020

    starting with this 5th course of 6 corses in this specialization was very benificial for me to understanding the actual meaning of IOT. Thank you

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    By Sebastian S

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    May 23, 2016

    Good class. not much different than the Arduino one. Useful to learn and use SSH with linux if you do not have a monitor for your Raspberri Pi.

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    By Faisal S

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    Jul 3, 2020

    Nice way of teaching how to interact with raspberry pi .. A very good blend of theory + practical both revolving around the raspberry pi.

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    By Omar S F

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    Aug 4, 2020

    The course provides a great interaction with raspberry pi and python programming.

    with good exercises and topics.

    Thank you professor...

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