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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

U

Dec 31, 2019

One of the Best course for Absolutely Beginners :-) Discussed Core Fundamental Factors of Blockchain of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Amazing Resources & Really Helpful Content. Thanks Bina Ramamurthy Ma'am.

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By Matteo L

Nov 15, 2018

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

By Prateek A

Jun 6, 2021

Although I could understand everthing, but video content is less in course, instead many links are given.

By Reid T S

May 20, 2020

A fair number of the "further reading" resources provided no longer exist or redirect to irrelevant pages

By Tanakorn L

Mar 11, 2020

Good for learning basic concept of blockchain. Some topics are too high level and not easy to understand.

By Nitish K

May 11, 2020

Increase in video length and a little less reading material may help in making this course more helpful

By Himanshu K

Oct 26, 2022

More video lectures should be there for a better understanding as we have to read a lot by ourselves.

By Umang T

May 22, 2021

The lectures could be lengthier. The course seems to be rushed. The programming assignment was good.

By Concierge S

Mar 4, 2020

The miner part of the project is flawed. It crashes. Also the project instructions are incomplete.

By Pallavi N

Dec 29, 2021

More than half of the resource files are not existing . Please review those resource files again

By Abhishek B

Jun 13, 2020

the faculty seemed to read from a screen and cannot make us understand complex english words..

By Vallabh C

Jan 6, 2019

more practical approach would have been better and programming assignment was not satisfactory

By Pulkit S

Mar 7, 2023

While the course is dense and exhaustive, it rushes through concepts leaving out quite a bit

By Miguel Á S C

Mar 19, 2022

Final Project is a pain; Virtual Machine used is not up to the specs required for the task.

By Yasaman R

Jun 23, 2020

It's a good course for beginners but the assignments and quizzes can be harder and longer.

By Bhavneet S

Jun 30, 2020

The reading material provided is pretty good, but video lectures could have been better.

By Saleh M A

Sep 9, 2020

OVA file creates problems which make my submission delayed. This should be resolved.

By Vishwajeet K

Jul 26, 2020

A nice course where you can learn about the basic knowledge of Blockchain Technology

By Ujjwal G

Jul 13, 2019

Covers only the basics, assignments are not very good but pretty decent for a start.

By Alexey K

Sep 14, 2018

Narrative in the lectures a little, most of the material is devoted to self-study.

By Amit K

Jul 13, 2020

Some of the links were not working in week 1 and week 2 optional reading material

By BALAM K

Aug 27, 2020

I HAD A GOOD KNOWLEGDE OF BASICS OF BLOCK CHAIN REGARDING BASICS BY THIS COURSE

By Rohit M

Jan 10, 2021

Good course for beginner concepts, but a lot of links are old and not working

By Sarthik G

Aug 18, 2019

Not much explained! Literally used youtube or Edx for most of the topics

By Chris M

May 29, 2019

Good information but needs more context around assignments and readings.

By Santiago M O G

May 8, 2023

Muy buenas eplicaciones sin embargo muchas lecturas estan desfasadas