i expect more

The instructors were great; very easy to understand and follow. My low score is in no way a critique on their knowledge or teaching abilities.

However, the actual formatting for the course on Coursera is atrocious. There is no reasonable indication that the Sleuth game at the end of week one is actually the course's FINAL EXAM. I managed to learn and figure out everything I needed for a passing grade for the entire course through trial and error, reviewing the discussion forums, using the instructor-led examples for Sleuth as a starting point, and researching external resources (primarily the p5.js reference website). This in spite of missing 2/3 of the entire course's actual content due to how it's displayed on this site.

I'm going to take in the rest of the videos and text from the instructors in the next few days, but it was needlessly frustrating - honestly bordering on infuriating - that the actual "final exam" is not at the end of the course.

I was actually expecting this to be more basic level. I am experienced but yet for a beginner level I found this course a bit confusing. Also there are a few things that can provide a better experience if improved. First, the assignment was placed in week 1 with limited knowledge relevant to attempt the assignment. It could have been placed at the last week and with enough knowledge to attempt the questions. Second, it was way too repetitive, I feel the idea here is to engage newbies with clear concepts rather than getting them to do repetitive tasks without a clear understanding. Third, I received the certificate soon after completing week 1 assignment. If for this course completion the requirement was to only attempt the assignment with 80%+ marks, I'd prefer to have it at the end of the course after I have gone through all videos otherwise I will loose interest to keep going through learning material after achieving the certificate.

I have previously completed the Harvard CS50 Introduction to computer science and coming from that to this feels like a significant step down. It makes me worried for the degree I am about to embark on. The course started improving in week 3, but the damage had been done in weeks 1 and 2. The sleuth game felt like a chore and it does not teach you much, if at all, about programming. CS50 uses scratch which it does not dwell on too long before it moves to C. I am not saying that you need to use those, but fill the course with more programming concepts. There is a lot of emphasis on P5js, but who is going to be using P5js in the real world. It is a good tool to get used to it, but then we should migrate to a language we will be called upon to use in the wild.

I had initial problems using the text editor, brackets. I eventually figured it out however it took me hours. there were many similiar comments to mine complaining about the same issues. the introductory portion to this class needs to have a better tutorial on downloading and using brakets and all other software that may be needed. when there are many similiar complaints about a topic and they are not addressed and adapted into the lesson it makes for a terrible lesson and class. I would gladly up my star review if they make changes to the tutorial of how to use brackets.

everything was ok so far but sleuth was real disaster and very very difficult to get 80% especially for beginners without any video help. I spent hours to get 80%. Yes I learned so manythings but I dont think this should be the way of learning online.

I STOPPED DOING THIS BECAUSE. BRACKETS CODE EDITOR IS WAY TOO OLD IT DOES NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY. THEY SHOULD HAVE TOLD OTHER ALTERNATIVE OR UPGARE THE COURSE. BUT IF I TALK ABOUT TEACHER HE IS AWOSEM I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING.

For a complete begginer it's not a good course. Instructions are not detailed, they expect you to self study mostly with trial and error.

sleuth assignments were frustrating. bit more theory could have been provided, examples on creating events, initializing objects etc.

If you want to learn programming and computer science, don't waste your time on this course. Instead, go for CS50x.

th instructions given was not clear and the discussions were not enough to fully understand the course

not a fan of the javascript and the "game" itself, way too specific for some cases

I couldn't find the examples they were referencing and could not get any support

Sleuth assignment is not working properly

Not for beginners.

I've had better.

I am giving this course a single star review because Coursera charged me for the course twice. I signed up for a monthly subscription for this course and I finished it in three weeks. A week after I was finished I was charged again. Why am I being charged for a course that I've completed!? To make matters worse, I cannot even go through the process of requesting a refund because Coursera's link ( "Learner Help Center") for requesting help or refunds is BROKEN. Everytime I click on the link, it logs me out and brings me to the home page. The fact that I have no way of speaking or receiving any help with this issue is not right. I feel robbed.

I tried to audit the course as it is advertised as part of the University of London thousands of pounds worth Bachelor degree program in pop up windows on Coursera, as I was curious. I found the instructions in the first videos confusing, the versions of Brackets provided in the instructions don't run as shown in the videos, I get errors all the time, can't figure out what's wrong or how to ask questions, it's not clear where the examples (like 'sketch') is taken from. It's very confusing right from the start and I was hoping this was for the beginners like myself.

you guys need to fix your sleuth app. many people have commented on the discussion forum on all the bugs your app has and it keeps failing people for no reason and not once has anyone addressed the situation or at least put in a way to flag a failed problem for review by an actual person its very frustrating and many people including me cant pass the class without this assignment but it keeps failing us after we've done everything right so what do you expect us to do??? please do something about this!!

This course is a total disappointment. I'm dissapointed in Coursera for bringing such an outdated and damaged files like this. I download Bracket and use the recommend files for learning but they're not working at all. It has passed the refund date due to the policy and I can't get my money back. Can't contact Coursera, no direct support although paying for the fee. Please support refund, switch my course or Coursera will be on my black-list and no recommendation from now on.

The Sleuth programme is really poorly implemented - many of the "fails" - as are continually highlighted in the discussion but have yet to be addressed - are not fails, see case 201 stage 4. Its an entirely subjective answer on what is "close enough". Countless hours wasted. Overall, a poor way to attempt to teach extremely primitive concepts. You learn more about the p5.js Library than you do about fundamental concepts of programming.

They leave their assigned coding courses unfinished, such as their Sleuth assessments. Wasted my time. Worst of all, this is a graded assessment for our school. They have so many errors in their code, and I try to finish something that's physically impossible to finish.

The first stage of each case is fine because there are videos to explain them, but once you move onto other stages past the first, these stages become mentally painful. No instructions or theory are given and it's such a waste of time.

You better of taking the Duke course which is more detailed when it comes to JavaScript and you can pick up HTML and CSS on the side for front end development

Very Poor. Links not working, using examples for us to code with that don't work. Course needs work. Will frustrate new people. Does not teach anything.