Robert Duvall
Ever wonder how Netflix decides what movies to recommend for you? Or how Amazon recommends books? We can get a feel for how it works by building a simplified recommender of our own! In this capstone, you will show off your problem solving and Java programming skills by creating recommender systems. You will work with data for movies, including ratings, but the principles involved can easily be adapted to books, restaurants, and more. You will write a program to answer questions about the data, including which items should be recommended to a user based on their ratings of several movies. Given input files on users ratings and movie titles, you will be able to: 1. Read in and parse data into lists and maps; 2. Calculate average ratings; 3. Calculate how similar a given rater is to another user based on ratings; and 4. Recommend movies to a given user based on ratings. 5. Display recommended movies for a given user on a webpage. Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world–class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina …
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Specification: Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System
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46 reviews for Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System
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| Price | Free |
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| Duration | 8 hours |
| Year | 2016 |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English |
| Certificate | Yes |
| Quizzes | Yes |
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Junchao –
Great course!
Michael B –
Great conclusion to the courses in this Specialization. I would not recommend it for those already (very) familiar with Java but for those starting out with Java this Capstone is just difficult enough to be challenging yet not too easy.
Mateusz A –
Most excellent Capstone of a course. Love the continuity….
Chew W Y –
Succinct and fun material, rating movies that is relevant to most. Thanks instructors!
Nirlan N Z d S –
Excellent course! A real challenge! It is awesome when you apply what you have learned!
David N M –
Excellent course with outstanding instructors. Requires commitment
Mario P –
I’ve learned a lot of how to build a programs in object oriented language. Thanks a lot, it is the best course I’ve attended.
Douglas A –
I posted a question on the last week on the forum and never received an answer from a mentor. I had one response from another student which did not actually address the issue of my question and I had several views. And it wasn’t as if there were a lot of questions posted. One course mentor could have easily answered all of them.
Iasinovschi B –
Exceptional!
Arunabh G –
This Caption project will help you to apply and have better understanding of the 5 courses in this specialization.
Antonio P –
A clear and well organized course
Maria D –
I like the exercises a lot and I suspect is a great thing that I leave the course with a lot of questions.
AKASH K S –
This is a excellent course and covers all the concept taught in the entire Specialization.
Zachary F –
Really enjoyed this project and I think it did a good job bringing the whole specialization together. Personally, I took more autonomy on how to solve the problems but I think the structure of the quizzes in this section allowed me to do that. In all, it was a fantastic way for me to solidify what I have learned, from the 7 step process and debugging to using online resources to figure out new logic. Thanks!
Roberto R –
it was another nice exercise
Musa M N –
Just Good!
Kerstin K –
Course was good, great programming assignments. But you can forget the discussion forums. No Mentors or Staff really present.
Edward F –
I took the full Specialization, so I’m going write the same review for each of the 5 modules. This is a great course, but it’s not for beginners. They ask you to do a lot of coding, which is great since that’s the only way to really gain proficiency. And the code they ask you to write is, in my opinion, pretty hard for someone new to coding. My hat’s off to someone new to programming who makes it through the five modules. So, thanks to Duke for putting together a great course. It was very good.
Kishaan J –
Offers an opportunity to practice all the concepts learnt so far! Good job by the team!
Alexandre C –
Nice introduction to Java and programing principles in general
Khaled H –
i have taken the whole specialization . so this review is for the whole specialization in general and for the capastone in particular. the first and the second course is very easy . but the three remaining course are a little bit tough so you will need to struggle and persist to complete the whole specialization especially the great project . indeed the project is extremely great . you will use all the concept you have learned through this specialization to implement this great project …. but NOTE this specialization in general and the project in particular is NOT for a BEGINNER Programmer. it is for some one who has a background in programming . but overall you will learn a lot great stuff and concepts .. so have fun and enjoy programming .
wen c –
very very very good course
Devul N –
This course has a perfect capstone project, that really requires all of your understanding from the previous courses to come together. The Movie Recommended System may seem challenging as little help is provided to help you make it, but once you finally make it, its one of the best things you can show off. Thanks for an amazing course!
YiFan ( Z –
Fantastic course! The instructors were very engaging, the lessons were varied and provided me with a wide variety of information in the field. After completely this course, I definitely feel much more confident working in this field.
Makiko O –
Enjoyed it!
Diar S –
good course and very interesting things to learn.
Lei H –
Very interesting project!
Martin G –
Didn’t liked this course. Maybe I excepted more from the idea to build a recommendation system
Chris T –
Challenging, but I feel that I learned a lot about programming. I’m looking forward to the UCSD intermediate programming course.
David H –
A great capstone for this specialization. One quibble is with the time estimates: all the reading assignments are marked as taking 10 minutes, which is probably true: just reading and understanding the reading will probably take that long. However, these assignments also task the student with writing code which is impossible to write in 10 minutes. Throughout the specialization, I often took between 1 7 hours to complete a reading/coding assignment. So the time commitment that they advertise is totally out of whack with reality. That said, the material is mostly well presented and interesting and the coding practice does give you good experience of what it is like working in Java.
Peter G W –
This whole series really challenged me but I’ve learned more from this course than any of my other previous attempts to learn programming. I feel a lot more confident now taking on more challenges in software development. There were some homework problems near the end that could have been explained a little better (sometimes I was overthinking it). I also felt that perhaps instead of BlueJ, I would’ve liked to use something like Eclipse in order to better understand the main() function. All in all, I would definitely recommend this course for those interested in programming or wanting to learn Java.
Eugeny K –
Great course. Somewhat easy relatively to other courses in this specialization.
Guangchen X –
Not enough submissions to review at the end. So not very friendly to self pace learning. Had to wait to review other people’s submissions before complete the course, which may waste some time since it’s paid by month.
LAKKOJU N S S R T –
learnt how to apply java in real time applications
Matios D –
Great course.
Shaun R –
Most everything was good in this course. There were a few things that they didn’t explain how to do ever throughout this 5 course program which was frustrating, but other students helped to fill the gaps on that part. Otherwise it was a great course that helped me put all of my knowledge to use.
Abrar H –
Well paced Course!
Suhash B –
This has helped me enhance my knowledge in Java Programming.
MyoungEun K –
This is so nice project to understand all of the fundamentals of Java Programming. So rewarding. Thank you.
Tanmay G –
Amazing Capstone Project!! I loved it! Really good specialization….. Highly recommended!
Ahmed N A –
Once again the lecturers decide to give you 30% of the project and tell you to complete it. The first two weeks tells you to build a flimsy base for your application and the other two tell you to pull your crap together and go back and fix it. I don’t understand what the point of that was, why didn’t you make me do it right from the start? It was more frustrating than helpful but it wasn’t a bad project, just poorly handled. Hard to call it my own when
Humam H E –
great
zhangjinqiang –
it’s very practical and not too difficult for Java starters.
Manju A –
THe courses really tested my overall knowledge of other courses that I have done in past 3 months. REally great learning. Thank you.
SHREYANSH J –
Wonderful course learned a lot by making a recommendation system…but some assignments are bit hard to understand what they want from you but everything else is fine. Everyone must take this course
Goodwill T K –
Needs a lot of work