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About the Course

This course is an introduction to Logic from a computational perspective. It shows how to encode information in the form of logical sentences; it shows how to reason with information in this form; and it provides an overview of logic technology and its applications - in mathematics, science, engineering, business, law, and so forth....

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SC

Apr 30, 2018

Pros:

1.good contents

2.good exercises and interesting puzzles

3.good examples

Cons:

1.No video

2. need more examples

SM

Jan 18, 2018

excellent teaching, detailed analysis, interesting theories, mind blowing facts, all in all it was my best experience online

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By Dino P

Dec 9, 2016

Awesome!

By abednego

Nov 23, 2016

perfect

By Antonio C

Mar 30, 2017

Great!

By 吴书棋

Apr 15, 2018

great

By Kelsey P

Jun 12, 2020

I enjoyed the structure of the course content. Some of this content does appear to be outdated (or at least fairly orthogonal in development) compared to more recent logic study sources (e.g. Hurley). It also quickly descends into difficult material in the last week that needed an especially acute level of research and attention to follow. It turned out, though, that the last sets of questions could be completed without actually comprehending and filling out the work for them, due to a bug in the software perhaps. Nonetheless, I respect and appreciate Stanford's publishing this for those of us who enjoy logic and wish to be challenged to take up the next level. Thank you!

By Gene P

Mar 1, 2021

The course gives a decent base in formal logic, and it is good from the scientific point of view. It failed to keep me engaged, though. It's pretty dry and it contains (almost) no videos, everything is in the text form. Chances are, at some point you will start feeling overwhelmed, and it requires either a ton of motivation or a good background in math or similar science which makes the material simpler to understand.

It's also a little frustrating that the certificate costs $100 instead of usual $50 and it's not a part of Coursera Plus subscription. For me a hundred is too much.

By Gustavo S

Dec 3, 2016

Covers a broad content of Logic: Resolutional Logic, Propositional Logic, Herband Logic.

Good analogies and examples from daily life, explaining where logic can be applied.

You will be able to see the things more logically and (depending on you) improve your programming skills.

However some topics should be fixed, there are technical problems in some weeks of the course. The lack of videos and lectures might be an issue, the written sections are not very engaging. There should be more resources and interactive tools. The exercises are challenging and demands time.

By Kaushal M

Sep 3, 2017

Really good course on logic. It explains everything without dumbing it down, however, that also means that the course gets really hard at times and I wish there were more examples as I felt a bit unprepared for the assignments, which were really hard. Also, there are no video lectures so be prepared to do a lot of reading. But if you are truly interested in basic logic, you will learn a lot from this course!

By The O

Aug 18, 2018

A pain if completing this course when the session not started yet. Without forum talking about solutions to exercise, usually in some exercises you could only stare at the screen for several hours, fell in deep despair, and eventually came up an answer by luck. Not a good experience, but the material is good though, if not considering the difficutly of understanding the text in the later lessons

By Tage M

Jan 15, 2017

Great introduction to logic.

One thing I'd have appreciated to see is a set of accompanying recorded video lectures. My experience is that I find it easier in term of efforts and faster in term of time to absorb taught concepts when I engage both my hearing and sight senses while watching a lecture than reading only.

By Chunping X

Mar 8, 2021

The course is well structured and I've learned some valuable concepts of logic. That said there're two thing I thought could be made better.

In some chapters, it's short of examples as explanation.

No introduction of how to use Fitch tool that could cause frustration for some who are new to it.

By Sihyung L

May 31, 2020

Some concepts in Week 9 were not very understandable, but other weeks were good. I thank all who have contributed and prepared this course. I wish that in the next version of this course, there are some exercises using real-world logic tools, such as SAT solvers.

By Ian A

Mar 3, 2017

This is a really good course. My only issue was I found some of the weeks quite a bit harder than others. It was helpful to look at the notes for each week in advance to figure out which ones would be tougher and allow for that.

By david g

Apr 22, 2020

I struggled real hard with some proofs. The main problem was the lack of examples or tutorials on how to use the rules of inference. Perhaps one or two videos could help??

By Yiye D

Jun 16, 2017

Somehow difficult in the last several weeks. As almost all the materials are all in words, students may sometimes feel bored seeing all lines and complex tables.

By Samuel O

Apr 24, 2019

I feel like some things could have been explained better, maybe a better description of how the fitch tool worked. Other than that, it was a great course!

By Chatziiosifidis A

Sep 11, 2017

Very interesting course

But some parts are not just to technical but rather for technicians and not for persons looking more into the theoretical aspects

By Supinder S

May 5, 2019

Course is fine but there isn't much material for INTRODUCTION. Good Math Skills Required.

By Jakob V

Jan 24, 2017

Videos to explain the materials would be much more useful than how it is right now...

By Krzysztof M

Mar 5, 2018

The Fitch tool can be easily hacked if now premise are in the task. Please fix this!

By Francisco J M M

Nov 17, 2016

This has been a very interesting course, introducing the basic of logic reasoning.

By Kit H M

Jan 25, 2019

The course is great, but the grading system is always broken.

By liu-xuezhi

Dec 11, 2017

虽然不容易,但还是做到了。生活中逻辑很重要,希望大家来学。论坛中大家都很好,给了我很大帮助。

By 廖晨辰

Oct 6, 2017

A little difficult to understand.

By tweenty P

Jan 7, 2017

great