Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Software Engineering by IBM
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FZ
Jul 14, 2024
This Course was incredible. It was informative as well as very easy to handle. Complete details were provided at each level so that the students don't feel any sort of difficulty while learning.
RP
Sep 10, 2024
This course surprised me in its applicability to software development. It is a great first course in establishing a foundation of programming before actually doing any programming itself.
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By Rodrigo A
•Dec 5, 2025
I want more coding
By Keifvin M
•Feb 13, 2025
It was ok
By Ho V T
•Oct 21, 2025
Khong
By Vishal G ( G
•Sep 30, 2024
NICE
By naka s
•Jun 20, 2024
OK
By Matthew C
•Nov 30, 2025
many of the exam questions would ask something, while the answers would be written in the same style, so it would be something like: Bob likes pizza, what should you buy for dinner? 1. Something round 2. Something hot 3. Something with meat 4. Something with wheels This kind of a question makes me thing that an early, EARLY, AI wrote these questions and nothing was checked. There are also many questions that do not specify context, and without context 2 or sometimes even 3 answers would be correct, but with the missing context (implied) there is only 1 correct, which you notice when you retake the quiz and see the same answers with a different question (differently worded, and no including that context) Many of the videos of the "professionals" explaining things almost entirely contradict what is being taught, like: How important is A? person 1: very important person 2: not important person 3: depends on the company you work for ...this is confusing and irrelevant to the teaching, so why is contradictory information used? The videos are presented robotic and dry and the ungraded assignments have you copying and pasting without explaining or describing why. I am not a monkey at a typewriter, I do not need to learn how to copy and paste. I know this is introductions, but it would be better to leave this out completely than wasting the time it takes to copy paste for no reason.
By Alexandre J
•Oct 2, 2025
The content in the video modules were decent and the overall organization of the materials were fair. However, the quiz questions were extremely poorly worded - many questions did not have obvious definitive answers due to how poorly worded and vague they were structured. Additionally, the AI job search module was poor and frustrating. The AI module would rate down an answer, saying I should have said another specific answer instead. However, when I included that same specific answer on the next attempt, the module still rated that answer down.
By Josh P
•May 25, 2025
A lot of poorly phrased questions. Much of the information is way too general. For example how programming syntax is explained from such a broad perspective, it is more difficult to understand then actually understanding programming. This intro course is good, if you're actually already familiar with programming as a means to buffer out your foundation, but if I was't already familiar I don't think much of this would have been useful (and it definitely wouldn't stick).
By R. B
•Mar 10, 2025
That is very confusing without real world examples. Often in architecture it was just a useless slideshow of words for complex things.
By Jesus J
•Feb 18, 2025
Knowledge and information imparted in this course is great, but AI-made voice content is the worst way to learn.
By Frencis P
•May 26, 2025
Boring course, only for beginners. Not for people that work in industry, and knows these knowledge
By Katie W
•Jan 9, 2025
mostly informational about what it is to be a software engine with minimal hard skills
By Drue G
•Mar 7, 2025
This course is way too long for an intro to the following courses. Felt like filler.
By Deleted A
•Jul 6, 2025
Boring course full of technical terms. Avoid at all cost.
By Nicholas D
•Mar 23, 2025
very dry. Drags on forever.
By Muhammad A I
•Sep 3, 2025
The ai voice is annoying.
By Mohamad k
•Feb 16, 2025
Most of the vidoes where just reading slides , no explanation or elaboration being done , the entire course could be done in a day if it was only reading since these videos time in comparison to the knowledge provided is absurd !
By Ubaid U R
•Dec 30, 2024
no real instructor. Better off with youtube. There is an automated voice and slides. Dont get caught up because it says IBM
By Hugo M
•Nov 30, 2025
La enseñanza es muy superficial. Y el hecho de que sea una maquina quien explique lo hace super aburrido para mi gusto.
By Shannon F
•Aug 21, 2024
Waste of time, especially the final project. If you are already a SDE skip this certificate and just go to Udacity.
By Vald “ T P
•Sep 14, 2025
This will not teach you anything useful, this is all about pointless nepo jobs you will not get anyways.
By Effe K
•Jul 20, 2023
Crap, you guys took money from my account without my consent and i couldn't get a refund. Nonsense!
By Rajdeep D
•Aug 10, 2024
completed honors content, then also did not receive honors recognition in my certificate.
By Loïc T
•Oct 23, 2024
For the certificate I applied for, I abviously already know that. A total waste of time.
By Ben F
•Aug 15, 2024
peoples voices and the ai voice at the start of the videos made me leave this course