Capstone MOOC for "Android App Development"

But simple multiple-choice quizzes and fill-in-the-blank programming assignments do NOT demonstrate adequate understanding of the material or teach it.

By the end of the course you will still be at a loss when creating and binding to ui elements.The concept of 'fragments', which is more of a paradigm than a ui element, is never even mentioned in the entire course.Another missed opportunity is covering gradle as a build tool.

I don't recommend this course, but I admit that material is excellent, and when authors of course would really see that they give student enough knowledge to pass capstone this could become good course.

First part of course is plain java (for example looping backwards using c-style for constructs to generate ascii graphics), 2 next parts partially low level internals (well described async handling, yes, but no word of layouting, etc.

The same cheating people will be reviewing your app - it's a mess.I also want to question the under-emphasis on ui and layouts in this specialization - there's almost no content covering the vast android specific libraries Google supplies for ui development.

I really have to question the reliance on 'peer reviews' in general - the discussion forums consist only of desperate students begging for someone to review their submission.

Only found some of the weeks a little hard to complete.Enjoyed and learned a lot, also recapped concepts I do not work with on a daily basis.

I will go back through the lectures, take careful notes and especially, write my own app for every example app the instructor presents.