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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Programming Fundamentals by Duke University

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    About the Course

    Programming is an increasingly important skill, whether you aspire to a career in software development, or in other fields. This course is the
    first in the specialization Introduction to Programming in C, but its lessons extend to any language you might want to learn. This is because
    programming is fundamentally about figuring out how to solve a class of problems and writing the algorithm, a clear set of steps to solve any
    problem in its class. This course will introduce you to a powerful problem-solving process—the Seven Steps—which you can use to solve any
    programming problem. In this course, you will learn how to develop an algorithm, then progress to reading code and underst...
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    ER

    Aug 14, 2020

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    The instruction provided in this course are very clear and anyone who can learn coding by this course. But the course has more readable content for you to take notes and reading it may take more time.

    MK

    Jan 28, 2021

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    It's a very good as a beginning with programing language. It helped me to think like a compiler and how it exactly works. I've finally understood the saying "Everything in computer works in logic".♥

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    By Jesús N

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    Jun 11, 2020

    Nice course, I learned a lot. I will suggest that the teacher needs to offer more office hours in order to help more the students with homewoks, like doing zoom meetings

    AMAZING COURSE!!!!

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    By Vraj P

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    Sep 22, 2019

    great course for beginners!!

    rather than only language syntax learning about the actual process or actual algorithm is way more beneficial. which is the exact thing this course provides.

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    By LiuJunLin

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    Sep 16, 2023

    In this course, I learned more about the thinking and methods of programming. Thanks to the teachers who used humorous and interesting courses to help me understand what programming is.

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    By Edwin A C P

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    Sep 15, 2020

    The course is very good, it really helped me a lot to learn to read the step by step execution of the codes, and not focus only on the result. Very good foundation to start programming.

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    By Anna S

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    Dec 11, 2017

    This course is great! It helps me to structirize all the information about programming that Iknow before. And of course I find a lot of new things. Thanks for the course and good luck!)

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    By Thoutam V

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    May 27, 2020

    The course was really fantastic. The way they are building concepts step by step for the beginners like me is really appreciable. I'm looking forward to learn more from you. Thank you.

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    By Baturalp İ

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    Apr 16, 2021

    I can recommend this course to anyone who is interested about learning algortihms and C syntax. Most importantly this course shows you how computers understand your code step by step.

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    By ADITHYA D

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    Dec 10, 2020

    The reading part were a little bit lengthy, but they are necessary for the course.

    This course was very useful to create a good programmer in me.

    Thank You all for this wonderful course

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    By Ananth R

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    May 29, 2020

    This course is a bit different from all other Introduction to C courses as the focus here is on understanding why, when and how to code rather than jumping directly into writing code.

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    By Jessica T

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    Feb 2, 2018

    This course is great. The teachers are fantastic at explaining the subject matter. I had failed a class at a community college in C++, this class makes it all make so much more sense.

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    By Stoyanov A

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    Apr 19, 2018

    Very nice course for every beginner. After the course you will understand very well the fundamentals of programming and could continue to further expand your knowledge in this field.

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    By mathecoder

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    Jul 6, 2020

    Excellent course for basics about programming. Sometimes we dive into advanced concepts ignoring the basics. And this course definitely helps address this issue and bridge this gap.

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    By ANDREW J L

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    Apr 27, 2020

    Challenging course if you have no experience in coding. Great at teaching basics to give someone an understanding of coding, and the final evaluation demonstrates that perfectly.

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    By Kristen P

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    Jan 19, 2020

    Excellent for beginners. A great way to build a solid foundation for new programmers/ data scientists/ coding enthusiasts. Loved the instructors and their way of explaining things!

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    By Anil

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    Mar 14, 2021

    it's a wonderful course. it helped me to improve my knowledge and skills, and i have an awesome learning experience with this course.

    Thank you Coursera and Duke university team.

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    By PRASENJIT P

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    Sep 21, 2020

    Very good course for beginner before the course I haven't know anything about programming but after this now I can say I learn something about program which is really interesting.

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    By Andy G

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    Aug 21, 2020

    I have previous experience in Python, a bit of C, and have a background in Mathematics. Despite that, I found this course to be extremely useful to better my algorithmic thinking.

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    By Seethiraju V S

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    Jul 13, 2020

    Its been a great experience and good reading stuff have been provided. Focussed on algorithmic skill and manual approach which helped me to understand the readability of the code.

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    By Mike T

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    Feb 4, 2020

    The format combined lectures, video, and exercises into an interesting way to learn algorithm development using the C language - much better than the usual "Hello World" approach.

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    By shrikant h

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    Dec 8, 2019

    That was a great experience to me because I have learnt lot of new things and I learnt how to do programming analysis based on complex problems and writing algorithms for problem.

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    By SOUVIK G

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    Dec 30, 2020

    The explanations in this course was lucid and in very simple language. Flexibility of the course helped me to acquire more knowledge by research on this topic from other sources.

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    By Hisham A

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    Sep 14, 2020

    Really I would like to thank you all, this course helped me very much in understanding the basics of C programming, the explanation was short, very simple and easy to understand.

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    By RAHUL V .

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    Jun 12, 2020

    It was a lovely experience. It helped me clear my old fundamental doubts.

    I recommend it to everyone who's looking for a walk through memory lane and basics.

    Loved it Completely!11

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    By Prabipriya S

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    Jun 11, 2020

    Hlw ,,,My name is Prabipriya Samanta, I am a student of ECE, From the coursera i have learnt a lot of things, It is a good platform, both teachers and university...

    Thannking you

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    By Aniket D

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    Jun 8, 2020

    The course is very much needed for beginners. The topic are well explained by the extremely talented teachers and the precious notes cannot be ignore. Overall top quality course

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