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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Software Defined Networking by The University of Chicago

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272 ratings

About the Course

In this course, you will learn about software defined networking and how it is changing the way communications networks are managed, maintained, and secured....

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DG

Oct 19, 2020

This is a very good course for any one who want to understand SDN. This course played a vital role in helping me to get an A in my project work leading to the award of MSc.Computer Science.

SS

Jan 1, 2020

I really appreciate the external interviews, veracity and technical details of the course. It would have been better, if correct links for the tools have been provided in the course.

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By ISHAN M

Oct 30, 2020

Good

By Sarah H

Sep 3, 2021

Its a good course and not trying to be too spoonfed here, but I think some sort of help should be given for the assignments. 1. Assignments should be listed in the course itself instead of us trying to find it from the virtual drive, even then its not reader friendly. Why not just put a .pdf file? It seems trivial but it makes it easier to learn the material, it is afterall and online class with no support. 2. Why not put a step by step guide with a few questions for students to find out the answer in the assignment? Yes its spoonfeeding but because its online and its a relatively new topic, it can be helpful to have better resources, even if its assignment help. Yes, i know there are some geniuses can figure out on their own.

Ultimately, Professor Nick needs to ask himself, if he provides this course for students to learn something, then the programming assignments should be heavily assisted through giving out the answers, because answers and spoonfeeding help people learn too, honestly, especially for not so intelligent students.

But anyway, I do like the depth, the interviews and the materials presented in this course, which to me, in 2021 is still kind of scarce. Thank you Prof Nick for your hard work preparing this course! I really appreciate it!

By Olivier L G

Jun 7, 2020

Très intéressant ; j'ignorais les débuts du SDN ; je revois OpenFlow, la séparation des plans des données et de contrôle, la virtualisation, le modèle MANO. Que d'efforts de recherches tous azimuts. Nous sommes si peu sur Terre.

By Robinson A P S

Jun 1, 2020

This course has refocused my path in the Networking industry. The information is high quality and the interviews give you a lot of orientation. The course should be more interactive.

By Muawian A

Apr 14, 2021

Thank you all, those who take part in preparing and delivering this course. The course is very helpful to understand SDN and its benefits and limitation.

By Dicki D M

Jun 24, 2020

Good for covering ground-basic SDN, but SDN itself is a really fast changing technology, so you must learn from the latest resource for advanced.

By David d A

Apr 5, 2020

The content is well presented with useful examples. However, it has become a bit outdated and the programming assingments are missing

By Patrick O

May 18, 2023

Hard tests, lots of content, useful practicals, overall a non-trivial course not for the faint hearted. Great insight on SDN.

By Sophie M

Dec 9, 2022

I found this course very interesting and all the fundamentals are addressed

By nourddine d

Jul 19, 2023

this is awesome cours from you guys thank you so much

By Kelum M

Aug 26, 2023

This good for learning sdn.

By P V

Nov 10, 2022

the course is really good

By Usu G

Sep 22, 2020

Great course

By David M

May 16, 2021

PROS: Good at explaining the fundamentals of SDN. The interviews helped separate the hype from the practical aspects of implementing SDN and making it clear that there is a lot that still needs to be developed.

CONS:

1) The material is dated. The lectures were created six years ago or more. Six years is an eternity for fast moving technology. Several of the projects that were discussed in the lectures are no longer active. The course badly needs to be updated. For example, one of the hottest applications of SDN today is with 5G, which isn't even mentioned in the course.

2) The course is very choppy. Many of the links included in the module syllabus are broken or stale. Also, the course appears to have had assignments and maybe lectures removed. There are actually questions in some of the quizzes that refer to material that is no longer covered in lectures, or to assignments that are no longer included in the course!

This is a worthwhile course, but it really needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

By Stephen D

Jan 14, 2022

The course coverage was quite good, and the videos and quizzes helped to solidify the lessons. I think though, the course is starting to become a bit outdated. Also there are references to programming assignments that have been moved, and require some Googling to find the new Github repo. It would be nice to bring those programming assignments back and not have as many quizzes.

By Filip S

Feb 21, 2022

interesting content, but - programming assignments are no longer available; content has low resoltuion when sharing terminals, variable audio quality

By UDIT P

Apr 9, 2021

Please explain more with POX, because other are outdated now. Also, Update the course with new OpenFlow.

By 安雅萌

Jun 24, 2020

This course is really boring.

By ali a

Apr 13, 2021

I think This course requires a lot of prerequisites. most of the concepts are not visible and the teacher only read slides. for example we use mininet but we do not know what is mininet or we hear a lot of work which we have no idea about them. I do not like this course and this teacher

By Hamdi B

May 6, 2020

I wish I could find one updated lesson, I only saw outdated elements, outdated instructions and outdated links. I suggest to update this course or to delete it! Thank you.

By Steve B

Aug 20, 2021

vagrant, virtbox, mininet git install failed.

By Nausee K

Dec 1, 2020

Not in the English language

By Danial k

Jul 27, 2023

so very hard