Functional Programming in Scala Capstone

The capstone project has done a fantastic job of drilling in some of the important fundamentals taught in the rest of the courses. It is definitely worth taking if you've done the rest of the courses.

Good course, some of the assignments could have been more explicit with expectations in cases where specific implementation details matter but the forums were helpful in that regard anyways.

It's very well put together. It just requires a great deal of time dedication specially because blocks of time should be meaningul to not lose the context present in one's mind.

For a lot of sections one couldn't really use Spark, said sections were restricted to translating Spark datastructures to Scala collections and working with those.

Very cool to see the entire application fit together eventually. However, feel sometimes the explanation for the exercise could have used more details/examples.

Outstanding set of courses.\n\nJust to counter comments about grader stability and lack of grader feedback - I never encountered this in any of the 5 courses.

A bit sad that actual full working solution is not graded as it invovled generating files on disk, which is compuation intensive...

Good Spark / Big Data project.\n\nProvides a good example of real problem project focussed on Spark and big data analysis.

Learn a lot about functional programming and spark, it inspires me how the data could be process in big data world.

Capstone project is challenging specially because of the performance standards. I enjoyed solving the problems

A lot of fun and a working project at the end with which to experiment with various parallelism strategies.

This is the hardest course of this Specialization, but I enjoyed it anyway. Thanks!