Parallel programming

This is not a normal parallel programming about some API codes.

I strongly recommend this to everyone who wants to learn the details of parallel programming beyond scala or any other programming language.

Although the course is taught well and covers a lot of ground, it is my opinion that the course content is not relevant to what I and majority of other Scala developers were looking for in terms of parallel programming.

The instructor has been upfront in differentiating parallel programming (the objective of this course) from concurrency programming.

But the content covered is highly relevant and first class (the authors being world-leading experts on the topic), so if you are interested in parallel programming, this is course is a great choice.

Really good course covering some of the fundamentals of parallel programming, though for me I was hoping it would go into some of the Scala specifics a little more Nice course.

They show applications of parallel programming very well.

Very basic overview of parallel programming algorithms and data structures in scala.

Классный курс Basically the lecture is more focused on the theoretical side of parallel programming, while the programming assignment on the more hands-on problem solving aspects.I like that.

Akka version was better :( Too much imperative technics in this "functional" parallel programming course.

Anyone wishing to upgrade their knowledge about Parallel Programming, should take this course.

Interesting course, very useful to get to know concepts of parallel programming.

Lesson emphasis too much on specific implementation tricks, and are sometimes hard to follow.

The course was ok, but at times too much theoretical when it comes to proofs of some methods are working as expected.

As result figuring out what the assignment steps are all about takes too much time.

I learned very useful programming techniques, but I'm a bit lost as to whether these techniques are "good practices" or if they are "existing parallel programming features in Java, transposed as-is in Scala" The course achieves its objectives, but the assignments require too much effort for solving general problems, and relatively little for parallelism-related tasks.

On the other hand it's understandable, that giving away too much info from the grader makes it easier to "workaround" the failed test without necessarily providing a good solution.

very good course.

Very good course overall on the basics of parallel programming in scala.

Pro: A very good course for those who are already experienced in ScalaCon: Only 4 weeks long :) Insightful, though I am not sure if in non R&D/Academia settings the knowledge here can easily be applied.

A very good course, the theories are explained well in the lectures and the assignments cover the learned information without being too difficult Excellent lectures, let down by the difficulty of the assignments.

The last assignment seemed needlessly complex with not enough focus on the parallel programming aspect.

Examples and programming exercises were very good, although last assignment was visibly less polished than earlier ones.

All but the last assignment are interesting.

A fair amount of the lectures are also good, even though some of them are too theoretical - the bad lectures are the ones that focus too much into proving mathematical properties, but thankfully there is just a few of those.The last assignment is considerably larger than the other ones and requires a physics background (or interest to do research on your own).

Thanks The course, especially the last assignment is too overloaded with math that is not really needed during everyday engineering.

I wasn't able to max out the last assignment (I did 9/10) due to another obscure assertion message - "body not found in right sector" and have no idea what was wrong and which body were not in which sector.

The assignment could be optimized and avoid to be more academic since it may make student lost focus and spend too much time on the question itself rather than the parallel programming Neat , fun, easy going, course Great course I have one issue about week 4 "Append" tree.

I felt myself involved deeply in understanding the problem statement, rather than practicing the concepts explained in the course.

It requires more effort on undestanding the algorithms involved in the problems, rather than paralelism and its techniques.

Assignments are focused on problem-solving rather than the importance of parallelism, missing the point of the lecture.

As someone with zero experience in parallelism, I felt I could've absorbed a lot more if the topics were not completely new to me.As mentioned in other reviews, the last assignment, Barnes Hut Simulation, was very time consuming and I found myself spending more time trying to understand the problem rather than implementing it.

Good learning materials, however the assignments are designed for compute science students rather than professional software developers as the most important part of the assignments is not parallel code, but it is algorithms.

Although the assignments cover almost all the important algorithms and data structures, like UpSweep, DownSweep, reducing tree and combiners, the exercises on these things are not enough.

Otherwise a great course More emphasis on Parallel Data Structures is needed, course is relatively simple as compared to previous courses from same specialisation Really cool course.

A must take in my opinion for a better and deep understanding of parallel programming.

I wasn't sure what I was doing for a while, and the test cases don't cover the code in a way that progresses naturally.

More test cases in assignments would help in testing and verifying the code After a rather confusing and dissatisfying first week, the course picked up pace nicely in the latter weeks.

Assignments could be a little bit simpler but involving more programming from scratch, not just filling in methods bodies.

The content in the lecture is a little bit hard to understand.

It gives the instruments both to understand the Scala library in its completeness and expressiveness in parallel computing, and the theoretical knowledge to understand what's "under the hood", to allow the student to understand whether the parallelism could be effective or not.I greatly suggest this course to anyone interested in parallel computing.

This course is a must for those who are looking to work in depth with data parallel intensive applications like Spark and want to understand the mathematics underlying the parallel computing.