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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 TUSHAR B

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Jun 14, 2020

this course gave a very good understanding of how cryptocurrency(Bitcoin and Etherium) works.

By Cristian M S

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Apr 25, 2020

Is a very goood course, has a balance between videos/reading and test. Some links are broken.

By Roshan D

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Jun 22, 2021

Wonderful teaching by the lecturer. It has helped me gain better understanding on Blockchain

By Ronak U

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Oct 16, 2020

Nice Course but very less practical knowledge (due to requirement of high computation power)

By Prajay S

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May 10, 2020

The videos were a bit below par. The content could have been presented with more examples.

By Matt H

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Sep 22, 2018

I felt that a lot of the tests were just copy paste - but overall liked to course material

By Davis Y

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Jan 11, 2020

It's okay but not great. give you basic concept and guide you understand the fundamental

By Chakradhar T

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Sep 26, 2019

Its very helpful to learn the blockchain basics that cover bitcoin and ethereum as well.

By learn a

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Feb 22, 2019

i would like to thank ,to my instructor for providing good facility to learn blockchain

By Omar V G

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Sep 14, 2022

Bastante bueno y escencial para aprender lo básico de la materia. Me ayudó muchísimo.

By Manuel G S

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Nov 5, 2020

Nice, but confusing at the end due to the submission procedure and the lack of support

By Marc J L

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Aug 4, 2018

Good intro, but you might want to do some erading prior just to have more familiarity.

By YOG R D

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May 27, 2020

Well explained but lack of tools of explanations such as animations and real exercise

By Raghavendra S G

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Jan 3, 2020

good course but use less complicated english words which are difficult to understand.

By Thanapong B

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Aug 4, 2018

This course gives a good foundation of blockchain. The explanation is pretty concise.

By Gokul G

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Apr 4, 2020

Basic Details are explained in a detailed manner and final assessment was also great

By Jose B R G

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Sep 26, 2020

Very clear to take a good foundations in terms of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum.

By Balamuralikrishna B

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Apr 25, 2022

The course is at very high level, needs more reading to keep pace with the course.

By Amrit P P

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Aug 23, 2020

awesome course .. only sugesstion i have is either VM or script need to be updated

By Dazhi W

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Jul 14, 2021

This course is an easy introduction. Could be finished within 2 or 3 days easily.

By Avinash S

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Feb 17, 2019

Explains the concepts in very efficient manner with Great Programming Assignment.

By PLN R

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Dec 9, 2018

Pretty decent for an introductory course! Hope it gets better in further modules!

By Abhishek T

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Jun 27, 2023

The course is nicely designed but i felt that the videos can be more informative

By Ragib H

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Aug 28, 2021

Instead of the main lecture resources the optional resources are more valuable.

By Timo K

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Mar 26, 2021

-Multiple links point to non-existing pages

+ The video lectures are very good.