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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Blockchain Basics by University at Buffalo

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About the Course

This first course of the Blockchain specialization provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developing applications and programming. You will be equipped with the knowledge needed to create nodes on your personal Ethereum blockchain, create accounts, unlock accounts, mine, transact, transfer Ethers, and check balances. You will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, an immutable distributed ledger and the trust model that defines a blockchain. This course enables you to explain basic components of a blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain) its operations (verification, validation, and consensus model) underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Content includes the hashing and cryptography foundations indispensable to blockchain programming, which is the focus of two subsequent specialization courses, Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (Dapps). You will work on a virtual machine image, specifically created for this course, to build an Ethereum test chain and operate on the chain. This hands-on activity will help you understand the workings of a blockchain, its transactions, blocks and mining. Main concepts are delivered through videos, demos and hands-on exercises....

Top reviews

TT

Nov 18, 2018

This is an introductory course to Blockchain. The supplemented material (in other words self-study) is excellent and in my opinion is the only way to master the concepts and details of this discipline

LR

Jul 29, 2019

Comprehensive and clear course that summarize the basic concepts to understand the blockchain technology. Also the resources and contents included are very valuables. I totally recommend this course.

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By Aniket D

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Oct 20, 2019

This one a good introductory course to Blockchain. The programming assignments could be a little more challenging.

By Wesley E C

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Sep 3, 2019

User experience is great, easy and concise learning. Assignments can use a bit (optional) elaboration on coding.

By Taylor C

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Sep 7, 2021

Great, but would have liked more details about commands and documentation behind the webapp in the final quiz.

By Ben G s

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Sep 19, 2020

i've watched already from a drive thats why i wanted to learn it and i loved how is detailed loved this course

By Dr. M S

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May 17, 2020

It was good learning about Blockchain. How technology works and how we can check the transaction in blockchain.

By Logan N

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May 8, 2021

Does a great job of explaining the basics of cryptocurrencies, and the underlying technology - the blockchain.

By Gaurab M

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Jun 13, 2020

The course was great. The resources are just awesome. Kindly read all the articles and journals in the course.

By Jayanta k T

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Jan 16, 2021

Y it was great to learn learn about this awesome technology and its underlying Technology. Thanks Coursera.

By Wenlong W

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May 19, 2019

Quite useful reading links provided in the reading sections. The lecture videos are not really informative.

By Pushpanjali K

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Jul 6, 2018

Good course to start with on Blockchain. The project is cool through it takes multiple attempts to complete

By Qifei Z

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Jun 12, 2020

Too many reading materials attached. Would be good if the professor and walk through some of the contents.

By Arvind K S

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Oct 14, 2019

The content was good for a jumpstart to the technology but the project work could have been more

engaging.

By Deshagette

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Jan 27, 2019

Ce cours Blockchain Basic m'a vraiment permis de découvrir cette nouvelle approche de gestion de données.

By Wim S

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Nov 27, 2018

There are some typo's in the text, one is anoying since is indicates ins't where I think it should be is.

By Zulfi H

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Mar 7, 2022

Great Course. Learnt a lot. The final hands-on assignment cements the course contents. Must take course.

By DOMINGO B

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Aug 30, 2020

It covers the basics of blockchain, giving the tools to begin understanding and working with blockchain

By SIVADANAM Y L

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Jun 10, 2020

very interesting and helpful for beginners. of course it is a basic course but got lots of stuff thanks

By Sampad S

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Apr 17, 2021

The course was fantastic. But the project at the end was a bit hassle as instructions were not proper.

By BHASKAR M

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Sep 24, 2018

The Instructions in the Project was not very clear. It took me more than 4 hrs to complete this task.

By Gary C

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Sep 19, 2018

Good information, however getting the project to run was a little challenging on my Windows machine.

By Sotirios K

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Aug 23, 2022

Well structured course for a complex subject matter

Resources could be better, some links are broken

By Sudhir K

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Jul 28, 2019

Little more detail in terms of how "difficulty" is created and used by miners could have helped.

By Iván M

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Dec 14, 2023

tiene datos básicos para empezar. A mejorar: podría estar mejor explicado, no está actualizado

By Aditya J

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Jun 30, 2021

This course was very much informative and helped me understand blockchains to a greater extent

By SEEMANT V

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Mar 16, 2021

contents that are given for reading purpose also need to be explained thoroughly in the videos