Distributed Programming in Java

All the good stuff application to clusters and cloud computing: MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, Sockets, Remote method invocation, Serializing/Deserializing, Point to point communication, Socket multicast/broadcast, SPMD model with MPI, Thread vs Process, Distributed Actor, Distributed reactive programming. Lessons are short and easy to understand and the mini projects are complex enough to get a better grasp of the theory.

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Programming assignment is some what easy, I think it my be better to require student to finished the complete code.

I would expect more indepth details about topics

I would consider it as a overview of possible approaches, not a course. Assigments could be frustating because outcome is sometimes non deterministic (I wasted few hours of my time because of this, it turned out that my solution was fine). Sometimes given examples are not following Java documentation in details. They could not work in corner cases. It should not be the case in the course made by professionals. Compared to the other courses I took authors of this one did not put much effort in preparing good materials and exercises. Course can by challenging by means of standing the frustration the assigments could give you. And in my opinion not because it is hard to pass them and they are demanding. It is because they are not properly prepared. I know that this topic can be hard. This specialization touches many important topics which are essential to making working systems. I have mixed feeling about specializations. It mentions most of the important topics in non sequential computer computing. But it does not give deep insight in many of them.

Covers topics not in the EPFL’s distributed computing course. Assignments are trivial.

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Very clear overview. Helpful for my understanding of distributed system.

Great surface level coverage of basic theories and Java frameworks for Distributed Programming. Projects are very simple and quizzes can feel a bit too specific to the lectures, but those two things just make it easier than it is in the real world. I took a similar class back in college but this was a nice refresher on thinking about first principles and modern new libraries.

Good course for over view of all the concepts related to Distributed Programming.

Solidly worth the money! The lectures and references are perfect, and the perspective is super helpful. The exercises still need work, but they still provide a good foundation for learning this material. For the maintainers, a good model for compound assignments of graduated difficulty is the sbt moderated grading for the scala sequence. I think you did a very good job within the (maybe self imposed?) constraint of single file upload, but this is the only major area allowing any improvement in this excellent course!

Nice course. Gives a good overview of Distributed Programming!!!

concise and clear

Really great videos and instruction. The class covers a broad swath of topics, which is great but fails to get really in depth in any one topic, as a learner you will need to dive deeper into topics that grab your interest. The projects are a little easy but are well organized and self contained. Considering the difficulty in creating projects for distributed computing environments I think the instructors did a good job.

The basicness of this course is simply unexpectable. It makes you “Jack of all trades, master of none”.

Excellent course and instructor. It is a nice introduction to several subjects.

Awesome material! : D

Please provide a detailed explanation to give some background knowledge.

The instructor was not clear with his approach