great as introduction

this was very helpful

a very good course

nice course

OK

The first 3 weeks are the best part of the course. There is mention at the beginning of setting up a XAMPP instance on your local machine but no actual instructions. There are lab environments but every single one is a blank slate which presents issues later on where you're supposed to update or delete from a database that doesn't exist. The student needs to create it first so they can use the insert code to populate the database for the exercise. There are some issues with quizzes over information that hasn't been learned yet and the videos immediately after covering what you were just quizzed on. Week 4 takes a nose dive as they attempt to teach normalization. It's very theory heavy with no actual lab environment to practice in. The material is ok, but there are other courses out there that teach the same material in a better manner. The final assessment includes some problems where you type in the SQL command to get a resulting table. There is one instance where capitalization of your answer should be doesn't match the capitalization of the table you're supposed to create. I'd only suggest taking this course as part of the overall Meta specialization. As a standalone class you're better off looking elsewhere.

Definitely the worst course in the back end certificate so far, although I really enjoyed the material. As others have mentioned, there were lots of small errors throughout that made quizzes confusing, and the course wasn't structured particularly well. On multiple occasions, I had to teach myself a concept that they introduced without explanation, only to have it explained in detail in a later lesson. I don't mind having to search out information myself, but I think it should be purposeful so that there isn't any wasted time later on in the course.

The videos were clear and professional, but the quizzes, readings and assignments were absolutely riddled with errors and insufficient information (example: you have to write a line of SQL to do a database operation but they don't tell you the name of the table, so you have to guess, and if you get it wrong they just say "go rewatch the video"). If you're going to take this, keep the discussion forum open at all times.

The final assessment was not clear nor well thought out. Should have been a lab button. Foreign Key question had an incomplete table creation field. This is what got you a 3. Students should not have to experience such a poorly put together final assessment.

The final quiz is really frustrating. It's really easy to enter the correct answer wrong. Wrong according to the validation process. Not actually a wrong answer.

TLDR version: Good course overall with room for improvement. Quizzes are problematic sometimes.

Still need to be include some basics like JOINS and improve the grading assessment in week 5

There is a little bit of SQL programming skills that you can learn from this course.

The final was pretty hard, #19 is incorrect. Overall, its a great course

Very simple topics. Good for beginners.

Need more exercises in SQL

Perhaps the worst course from the Back-end Development Specialization.

Some quizzes and SQL exercises are not in sync with the content taught.

I thought the course was free until I got to the end of first module. Like I said, I'm a full time student and on top of that I have 7 children that I need to take care of and right now I don't have a job so I can't pay for this course. It would help me out a lot if I can continue this course for free. Thank you!

A lot of bugs.