Learner Reviews & Feedback for Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software by Duke University
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AM
May 1, 2018
Excellent introduction to Java.A little heads up if you're taking the course:Answers need to be truncated to x decimal places in quizzes, not rounded. (Instructors please clarify this in all quizzes!)
FA
Oct 8, 2017
Excellent explanations and amount of course work for practice, the tests made good use of the examples and work given, I am satisfied with what I learned in this course and see it's real world usage.
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By Shafiq I
鈥Apr 24, 2020
A very well curated course with challenging assignments (I had a hard time completing them though), but learnt the basic well. Enjoyed throughout.
By Mujtaba Z
鈥Oct 29, 2020
Some coursework had vague or confusing descriptions for methods. A lot of methods were also quite similar to others, leading to repetitive code.
By Ayyakutti A
鈥Dec 11, 2017
Good flow, but the supporting document reference are very poor. Very hard to follow. Keep simple English difficult to understand in many Quiz.
By Tyler B
鈥Aug 23, 2017
Week 2 is rough, quite frankly it's just a poorly implemented mess of frustration, but if you stick with it the second half is really solid.
By KABWE L A
鈥Dec 23, 2017
Maybe, you should let us manipulate more the file, because the dukes library is doing much. But, in general this cours was interesting !!!
By Vivek K
鈥Sep 8, 2019
It is good for beginner.It's provide me lot of basic knowledge of String.I have enjoyed too much.
Last week of work was so interesting .
By Jay O
鈥Aug 14, 2025
Good Learning With Hands on Programming Simplified BlueJ Coding Experience Interacting with variety of datasets like csv, image etc
By Musa M N
鈥Dec 25, 2016
Incredibly comprehensive learning package which makes learning and skills acquisition easier. Kudos to the creators and instructors
By Beat N
鈥Jul 13, 2020
I liked the content and the presentation. One input, though: I really would like to learn about unit tests early in the program.
By Stanislav S
鈥Dec 10, 2017
Nice course, even though the 1st week assignments are not that good, but the rest of the course I enjoyed every single minute.
By Gabriel T
鈥Feb 6, 2016
Great course and delivery!
If only there would be more help in the forums by assistants or tutors it would have gotten a 5 star
By Abhishek R
鈥Mar 13, 2019
Great course! Sometimes the guidance was a bit confusing but after enough looking over my notes I was able to do it properly.
By Soumyajit P
鈥Feb 18, 2016
Good course and quite unique approach... could have been more interesting and fun! Video presentation is too geeky at times.
By Mary S
鈥Mar 30, 2018
Material too repetitive for my tastes, but some may find that reinforces learning. The baby names project was kind of fun.
By Apurva H
鈥Jul 30, 2017
PLEASE teach us how to use a better IDE. BlueJ sucks, compared to, for example, something like Spyder for Python. PLEASE.
By Roberto R
鈥Nov 24, 2016
I liked the fact that the final tests need your code.... so if you do not understand what you have done you will fail :-)
By Wei Q
鈥Jan 20, 2022
Everything is perfect except for the discussion forum. It would be greatly improved if TAs can provide more supervision.
By KALE M G P
鈥Jul 17, 2020
This course will help u problem solving skill as well as how to debug and find Compilation Failure and to Rectify it
By Anne-Marie C A
鈥Aug 11, 2016
This Course's content was so clear and so enlightening! I really appreciate these instructors strategy! so different!
By Mahammadshabbir N
鈥Mar 15, 2022
the cource was full of information and the best part is to learn the 7 step approach to solve any software problems.
By Alfred R
鈥May 24, 2018
Good course, but you've to be aware that the assignments, which is set to 10 minuttes, often takes from 2 - 4 hours.
By Reena A
鈥May 21, 2020
The hands-on experience does have a great impact in helping learn how to use java to solve basic yet tedious tasks
By Ayushi M
鈥Apr 22, 2020
This course is extremely useful for beginners. Very nicely taught lectures and assignments are worth time giving.
By vraj S
鈥Sep 21, 2019
this course is very helpful for computer science students. It helps us to improve our programming skills in java.
By Kerry W
鈥Jun 10, 2017
Good content but I wish the topics moved a little quicker. Seems like there is more hand holding than necessary.