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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 Jay C

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Jun 12, 2020

The course was insightful. The project was quite time consuming and tediuos. PLease arrange an alternative project beacuse there were many people who coulnt complete because of the project

By Tyron J

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Oct 6, 2021

Provides a good high-level overview but a little too easy. The one programming assignment involved zero programming - just following instructions and clicking a bunch of buttons.

By Praveen K K

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Jun 30, 2020

Every conent is worth.But the programming assignmnet need many resources and a good OS with 8GB RAMG(4GB recommended).So for people with 4GB need patience to complete the course.

By Eduardo S F

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Jul 30, 2021

El curso en sí es muy superficial y resumido. Es necesario ahondar dentro de los recursos "opcionales" que se ofrecen, para afianzar realmente el conocimiento que se requiere.

By Martin M

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Jun 10, 2018

Good introduction, a bit more strucutre could help. Over simple exams, especially the so called programming part. Hoping that more advanced skills will be measured later.

By Manas M

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May 25, 2020

While the information was good some of the material given to read is outdated. Please update that.

Rest of course and delivery of content is very good and easier to grasp

By PRANJAL A

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Jul 16, 2020

This course covers the basics of Blockchain in organize manner. Reading resources are awesome although some material link was not correct, but overall nice experience.

By APOSTOLOS S

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Sep 22, 2018

Very high-level material and sometimes vague. The assignment didn't help to get more insight on the blockchain. Just had to run a VM and then a web based application.

By Davis S

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May 14, 2020

Blockchain Is indeed a very tough subject for a beginner. So the instructor shouldnt hurry up and instead just slow up.Some topics were very difficult to understand.

By ravi k

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Feb 1, 2020

High level introduction - I was hoping for more meaningful exercises to drive the concepts home - as opposed to links to other peoples blogs for in depth analysis.

By Manish K

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Jun 11, 2022

Last assignment was a lot of work and I learned quite little from it. The lecturer is to boring, you can make this much more exciting. The content is quite dry.

By Eshan B

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Mar 14, 2020

Course so far has been very weak. Very little material, and most learning comes from optional learnings (of which most are garbage), rather than the videos.

By Ben T

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Apr 5, 2022

Instructor accent was quite thick and somemtimes incomprehensible. Final project instructions were "just okay." I had to use VMWare rather than VirtualBox.

By Keerati I

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Aug 17, 2021

It covers the basics, however, I wished the details in the optional sections are taught in in the videos instead of being links for extra readings.

By Douglas C

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Apr 7, 2021

a bit disappointed when i compare to other classes i took on coursera. I was expecting a more hands on approach with Jupyter based exercizes

By Gary T

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Dec 24, 2018

Some topics went into details without a background and would more details for the assignment in terms of why we were doing each step.

By Gayatri P

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Aug 4, 2020

It was very informative and understandable but the setup for the last assessment was hard, and so couldn't complete the course.

By Mamtaba G

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Jun 21, 2020

Many topics were under explained and need an update in the course. I had to read other materials to know the concept properly.

By Personal M A

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Oct 8, 2018

Too much distraction by moving backgrounds in the videos while presenting study material. The simpler, the better, IMHO.

By Dat D

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Sep 15, 2022

Don't know how to describe, but without reading, you can't understand much of the given information in the videos.

By Mayank K

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Sep 28, 2018

Need lot of reading. I almost read number of blogs and websites. But my knowledge of the topic is also increased.

By VAGICHERLA S A

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Jun 26, 2020

The teaching was good but their should be some examples to be said for regarding when the concept is explained.

By Christopher M

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Mar 14, 2021

Overall a pretty decent course. However, many of the links did not work so this course needs to be updated.

By Marvin T B

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Jul 4, 2019

The content is okay, but the troubles with assignment (Problems with VM, Grading Upload) are a bit annoying

By Matteo L

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Nov 15, 2018

Not being a native English speaker, I found a bit of difficulty with the teacher's colorful pronunciation.