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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Parallel programming by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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    About the Course

    With every smartphone and computer now boasting multiple processors, the use of functional ideas to facilitate parallel programming is
    becoming increasingly widespread. In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of parallel programming, from task parallelism to data
    parallelism. In particular, you'll see how many familiar ideas from functional programming map perfectly to to the data parallel paradigm. We'll
    start the nuts and bolts how to effectively parallelize familiar collections operations, and we'll build up to parallel collections, a production-ready
    data parallel collections library available in the Scala standard library. Throughout, we'll apply these concepts through several...
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    AL

    Apr 24, 2018

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    The course is fairly advanced and you would need to review the materials many times to understand the concept. The assignments are definitely fun and not as straightforward as other courses.

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    Aug 25, 2017

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    Superb study material. Learnt a lot during this course. I am not much into mathematical stuff, but got a hang of how to break problems and improve efficiency through parallelism.

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    By Mateusz K

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    Oct 2, 2016

    Appreciate the time spent by the authors to prepare all the course materials and the assignments. Everything clear and relatively self-contained. However, I still do not feel to be an expert in parallelism.

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    By Kaushik N

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    Aug 7, 2016

    The course was really good. Got to learn so much about parallel programming with that course. The explanation level is very basic and any Computer Science related person can easily grasp the concepts

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    By Jean-Baptiste D

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    May 21, 2020

    At its begining, this training doesn't look as polished and refined as the previous ones animated by Martin Odersky, but it quickly catch up with very efficient lessons and great practice exercises.

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    By Martin K

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    Jun 22, 2016

    Very good. Only things I wish were better is more comments in some assignments and more prepared tests. Also I miss not having "Statement of Accomplishment" like some other Scala courses :-(.

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    By Steve N

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    Jul 6, 2020

    I really learned to think of parallelism in different ways. My only issue was that a lot of the exercises required good spatial skills which are not my strength. Somehow though I passed.

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    By Yihan S

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    May 17, 2017

    The assignment could be optimized and avoid to be more academic since it may make student lost focus and spend too much time on the question itself rather than the parallel programming

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    By Rodrigo D

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    Apr 1, 2017

    Its a very good course! perhaps the in the practice code, before jumping into the problems they can provide a couple of simple examples/questions such that the main ideas are learnt.

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    By Du L

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    Jun 2, 2018

    Very challenging course, the assignments are more about practising using parallel programming, would be better to design an assignment to implement the parallel programming.

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    By Gregory E

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    Mar 29, 2018

    For this course you should have Advanced English level. Cause sentesce construction is so difficult and words so unusual that i had to some times google what i have to do.

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    By Benoit T P

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    Dec 20, 2016

    Very good course overall on the basics of parallel programming in scala. Would have been nice to talk a bit more on the low level setup (parallel and task construct code).

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    By Tim G

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    Oct 22, 2017

    Really good course covering some of the fundamentals of parallel programming, though for me I was hoping it would go into some of the Scala specifics a little more

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    By Erkin Ü

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    Oct 7, 2016

    Assignments are focused on problem-solving rather than the importance of parallelism, missing the point of the lecture. It is a Scala course, so it is always fun!

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    By Rahul W

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    Dec 11, 2016

    Good course but scala understanding is required for this course. So please register for prior course in the certification task to easily complete this course.

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    By Роман В

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    Jun 2, 2018

    Assignments are too easy compared to 2 previous courses. I've been asked lot less than been given. And did not grasp everything in the lectures at the end.

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    By Solodovnikov G

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    Sep 17, 2016

    Good explanations, relevant assignments.

    But too small, too little graded assignments as for subject. Be better if the assignments has less starter code.

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    By Zhenduo D

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    Nov 15, 2017

    I can be further improved if the class can touch on design patterns using Future and Actor, in addition to the data structure oriented materials.

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    By Enrique G R

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    Aug 19, 2017

    Time to complete exercises might not be completely assessed. Some lectures seem to technical without any correspondence with real problems.

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    By Pascal A

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    Sep 23, 2016

    Really a great course but with a heavy work for the duration. If others courses are followed in parallel, there's no time to loose

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    By Romain G

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    Jul 28, 2017

    Very good course. Conc-list was brilliant.

    Automated correction tool could do with more verbosity on failed test cases.

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    By Steven T

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    Sep 26, 2016

    Presentations were presented well and the assignments were interestingly varied but quite challenging for the newbie.

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    By Alan A

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    Oct 7, 2019

    Interesting course but math part is too academic and boring. It'll be more useful if focused only in real use cases.

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    By Ville M

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    Jun 22, 2020

    After a rather confusing and dissatisfying first week, the course picked up pace nicely in the latter weeks.

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    By joshua

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    Jun 9, 2017

    Overall the course was really good. I think the first 2 courses explained things a little bit better though.

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    By Carlos C B

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    Apr 6, 2017

    The course is good but is not focused on scala features. It is more generic parallel programming approach.

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    By Adianto W

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    Oct 24, 2016

    Insightful, though I am not sure if in non R&D/Academia settings the knowledge here can easily be applied.

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