Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving, Part 3 (Projects)

Challenging and rewarding. Very useful and complete. Great tutor support. A course i am enjoying very, very much.

I really enjoyed those free projects! Very challenging. However, I am not the biggest fan of peer reviews. For people wanting to finish the subscription earlier and not go with 3 month fees it is basically impossible. Either one doesn’t get reviews – even after posting into discussion forums – or one cannot upload because it is not open yet as the course officially hasn’t started. Or one switches sessions backwards and one is too late in submitting and doesn’t get reviews in time either. I would prefer much more having grader and the peer review just as a second option to learn from others in case one gets absolutely stuck or to see other ways to do it. But to make passing and timing dependable on this: not helpful. Other than that, again, loved the class. 🙂 Thanks!

Projects were enjoyable and challenging. Instructor is excellent –– does a great job of explaining the material and interacting with learners. Content very relevant to real–world projects.

Best course to learn Visual Basic

All the spcialization is absolutely amazing, you will not only learn how to make impressive tools in excel VBA, but also a lot of other things!

I liked the projects as they allowed you to showcase what you have learned through part 1 and 2. And if you have any issues, you receive a very quick response from the course instructor via the forum. Prior to this specialization I already had some experience with VBA, a large part of my master’s thesis was done using it, but I was still able to learn new stuff, and more importantly, just get a better understanding of VBA and becoming more confident in using it.

I did not know any VBA before this specialization, but now thanks to it, I do! In this third part of the specialization, you have to develop some challenging projects where you will use all what you have learned on part I and II. You can even choose in the first three weeks which projects suits best to your learning goals. Although I did not required extra help, I noticed that the Instructor Nuttelman responses via the forum, which is great. Also, even though there is no grader but peer reviews , I received nice and useful feedback from other students, who at this point are all capable of reviewing and commenting other’s work. In my opinion, this course is very well structured! and Nuttelman’s english pronuntiation is very clear which is important for me as a non native English speaker.

Awesome course for all of us that want develop advanced VBA apps for Excel data analysis and management.

Great projects that test what you’ve learned in the first two courses. Thank you Charlie, for the classes!

Excellent course!

Great course, great instructor!

Good course for learners to build projects from scratch.

The best course I’ve taken so far, I can’t thank you enough for the great content.

I have been a portfolio manager at a hedge fund for some time, so I approached this series of courses with a view to using VBA professionally. The first two parts of the 3–course series are fantastic – lectures and assignments. The third part had excellent assignments, exactly the sorts of problems one tackles professionally. The only negative feedback I have is that I found the peer review system a bit hit or miss – some reviewers were very diligent, while others were a bit cursory or failed a project because of an error I and other peer reviewers didn’t see (maybe due to an older version of Excel, etc.). I have taken a few different Coursera courses and in terms of utility to time ratio, this series is fantastic. Thanks Professor Nuttelman!

I think the whole specialization has very good a learning curve, from introducing concepts and getting your hands on working. Part 3 certainly gives you an opportunity to work with more complicated stuffs and gives you a sense of accomplishment. I feel like the marking scheme can be delegate down a bit more, right now for some parts it is either 0 point or 4 points which can be hard to reflect sometimes. Also there isn’t too many people taking this course unfortunately, so the peer reviews can be a bit annoying since you don’t have projects to review sometimes. Overall, this course has it all, and I think it could definitely help if your job needs to use excel in some sort of way.

Absolutely amazing. Exactly what an analyst needs.

This series of VBA courses from UC Boulder is one of the best for beginner to learn VBA coding. The materials and videos are well organized; Charlie is an excellent instructor to guide you through different topics step by step. The assignments are very helpful to enhance and improve your ability to be able to code independently if you put in the work. Part 3 is project–oriented, the projects involved are all very practical and can be applied in various real–life/working environment. I feel extremely grateful that Charlie has put this course on Coursera, I loved the experience. One minor issue is that since the grades are from peer–review, sometime it’s hard to wait for/find other classmates to grade. My approach is to use sharable link and leave messages while review others/ in the discussion forum. Hope this little tip will help the later classmates to get their grades smoothly.

I really enjoyed this course. I believe VBA is an underappreciated language because many individuals undervalue its practical application. Part 3 allows your understanding of VBA to migrate toward this more valuable aspect of VBA. In terms of course content, Charlie is a fantastic lecturer willing to go above and beyond for all course–related matters. Also, the slow peer–reviewing issue can be fixed by using the discussion forums as a medium to negotiate quicker reviews. I would 100% recommend this course to any individual looking to transform/optimise excel–related processes (or any process that can be completed in excel).

Excellent course and excellent specialization. Charlie, thank you so much, you are a great professor and a nice person.

Great course! I’ve learned new and very productive skills that will enhance my capabilities. Sometimes peer review does not work as expected because. This is an issue to improve.

Best course in the series as you really get to put your acquired knowledge into practice. I though the projects were diverse enough to find interesting applications across various fields. The final project was very interesting and worth doing as you get to create a sizeable application from scratch with a large amount of code that was as tricky to troubleshoot as it was to write and you had to learn from your mistakes over and over again.

Projects are focused mainly on userforms, which was not exactly what I’d be primarily interested in. However, still good final for good series.

Amazing! I recommend it 100%