Top Rated Cognitive Class Alternatives
All the courses on this website are for free, and top of they , we are rewarded with IBM named badges which we can post on our Linkedin profiles, our resumes , everywhere. The site provides you the platform to change your career into the leading technologies like Big Data, Data Science and Cloud. The content for each course is divided into modules and your need to complete all the modules and answer the graded questions. The questions helped me to apply the knowledge I gained earlier. The courses are tagged with a difficulty level and pre-requisites which help you to understand which course you should pick. The beginner course take you from scratch to a comfort level with the subject. They make use of lot of examples, so you can code them down in parallel. Even the content is made available lifetime. It also provided me a free lab environment to work upon and i didn't have to setup anything locally on my machine. The tough thing was to crack the graded assignments with greater than 75% marks. The certificate doesn't have an expiry though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The content was more of examples and theory based. They need to include more assignments and peer reviews between the users who are taking these courses. The videos have rich content in them but a lot is explained say like in 6 minutes. They need to curtail the videos so that the examples and hands -on labs are in parallel, student should not feel the need to restart the video or pause it, it should be that modularised. This will help the students to understand the nuances of the subject in consideration better. Also the assignments at end of each module are not updated from time to time. They are same even 9 months after I have taken up the course. The certificate exams should also be taken once every year like most renowned certifiers do, they help to refresh the knowledge base of the student and ensures the certificate is not only to show but carries certain value with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
4 out of 5 Total Reviews for Cognitive Class
The content was multi-faceted, with a mixture of text, well-done videos, and quizzes, great for retention. The labs were particularly good for Python, as well as one for building a data lake in IBM Cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While working on Jupyter Notebooks, the website was glitchy, but the labs themselves were quite good, and the problem might have been concurrent, not caused by the implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like thier pattern like Jupyter lab. You can switch to tabs and directory easily. Also, there is option to save your notebooks for future use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes the notebook take very long time to load which is very frustrating even with high speed video quality net. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The courses I've finished (6) had great content, well structured with good quiz / exam sets for evaluation. Also the flow of the course material made sense, and they were prepared with the industry needs in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The UI (web-player, quizzes, exams, progress dashboard etc.) is terrible. Not only it looks old, but it's also unreliable and buggy. Some day the web-player is not working, some other day you can not see your progress, and some other day the correct answer you're providing is not being accepted (because it contains spaces for example) .
I recommend the team building the platform to actually attend to the courses on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
